Synchronous generator and full converter
Synchronous generator and full converter
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Hi all,
The standar configuration of a Synchronous generator with salient poles has a squirrel cage in the pole shoe in order to damp the load oscilations.
In some wind aplications, generator is completely decoupled from the grid by a power electronic converter connected to the stator winding. (Generator side diode rectifier or voltage-source converter and grid side voltage-source converter).
I would like to know how the squirrel cage works in these aplications. Could be designed pole shoes without squirrel cages?
Thanks!
The standar configuration of a Synchronous generator with salient poles has a squirrel cage in the pole shoe in order to damp the load oscilations.
In some wind aplications, generator is completely decoupled from the grid by a power electronic converter connected to the stator winding. (Generator side diode rectifier or voltage-source converter and grid side voltage-source converter).
I would like to know how the squirrel cage works in these aplications. Could be designed pole shoes without squirrel cages?
Thanks!





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RE: Synchronous generator and full converter
Although generator dosent need squirrel cage due it is not directly conected to the grid, what about the harmonics surged by the rectifier? does squirrel cage have any advantege about these harmonics in terms of shoe heating or losses?.
Another question related with this issue is the voltage shape wave. Synchronous generator conected to he grid have to get a sinusoidal shape (THD<5%), but in this case that the output power is rectified (AC/DC/AC), should the output voltage of generator have a sinusoidale shape?
RE: Synchronous generator and full converter
RE: Synchronous generator and full converter
Increasingly, the large (multi-megawatt) wind turbine generators feed the grid through rectifier/inverter stages. All of the new designs I have seen in the last several years do so. There is just so much advantage in efficiency and reliability in completely decoupling the generator frequency and phase from the grid that the cost and the losses of the power electronics are justified.
Many of the designs do use synchronous generators -- I have even seen permanent-magnet synchronous at over a megawatt!
Curt Wilson
Delta Tau Data Systems