Nelumbo Technologies Pvt Ltd Project: Replacement of Static Excitation System of 1x1.

25MW Generator, SHEP Urumi-1

A193, Sector - 63 Customer: Kerala State Electricity Board
Noida, India - 201301 Sheet 1 of 1 Category
www.nelumbo.co.in Doc id: NTPL-279-01-001 Rev: 00 Rev: 01 Rev: Internal
Doc: Static Excitation System - Discharge & Field Flashing Resistor Calc Doc. Date: 15-11-2022 17-11-2022
A Design basis:
Field Discharge Resistor:
- The discharge resistor is used in case of electrical trip to reduce the field current as fast as possible and to minimize the damages produced by the short-
circuit current supplied by the synchronous machine. The connection of discharge resistor is done by opening field breaker & closing discharge contactor.
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It implies a large negative voltage in the field winding.
- The normal practice is dimensioning the discharge resistor to reach 80% of the maximum insulation voltage of the winding for the maximum excitation
current
Field Flashing Resistor:
- The field flashing resistor is used in series with field winding and field flashing source voltage to limit the excitation current and voltage across the field
2 winding to avoid the damages produced by high short time current supplied to the synchronous machine.
- The normal practice is dimensioning the field flashing resistor to allow 30% of rated field current while the field winding is connected to external DC
source for flashing the field during starting.
B Inputs for sizing calculations Value Unit Rev Remarks
1 Generator power rating, S 1562.5 kVA
2 Generator rated voltage, Vrated 6.3 kV
3 Rated frequency, F 50 Hz
4 Generator rated current, Irated 143.2 Amps
5 Generator Excitation rated voltage, Ev 40 Vdc
6 Generator Excitation rated current Ei 276 Idc
7 Ceiling factor, Kceil 1.5
8 Field winding insulation voltage, FWiv 500 Vdc
9 Max voltage allowed across field winding, FWmv 80 %
10 Field winding resistance, FWres 0.1297 Ohm
11 Field Flashing Voltage, VFF 220 Vdc

C Calculations - Discharge Resistor - Fixed Formulae Given value Value Unit

1 Max voltage allowed on field winding while FCB opened, Vmax = FWiv*FWmv 400 Vdc
2 Discharge circuit resistance required for safe operation, Rdr = Vmax / (Ie * Kceil) 1.0 Ohm
3 Min size of discharge resistor, RDIS = Rdc - FWres 0.8 Ohm
4 Rounding off, Rdisch No rounding off 0.8 Ohm
5 Discharge resistor size, in Watt, Wdis = Ev * (Ei * Kceil) 16560 Watt
6 Continous duty rating of discharge resistor = 10% of calculated value 10% 1656 Watt
7 Rounding off continous duty rating, Wdisch 2.0 kW
8 Short duration rating, Wdisch for 1 sec 17.0 kW

D Calculations - Field Flashing Resistor - Variable Formulae Given value Value Unit
1 Voltage desired across field winding during field flashing, E VFF = VFF - Ev 180 Vdc
2 Expected limit of field current during field flashing, Eimax = Ei * 30 % 30% 82.8 Amps
3 Field flashing resistance required for safe operation, R FFR = EVFF / Ei 2.17 Ohm
4 Range of Variable Field Discharge Resistor, RFF 0 to 10 Ohm
5 Field Flashing resistor size, in Watt, WFFR = Ei ^ 2 * RFFR 14877 Watt
6 Continous duty rating of field flashing resistor = 10% of calculated value 10% 1488 Watt
7 Rounding off, WFF 2.0 kW
8 Short duration rating of WFF for 3 sec 15.0 kW

E Conclussion

1 0.8 Ohm, 2 kW continous and 17 kW short duration (for 1 sec) rated Discharge Resistor is considered.

0 to 10 Ohm variable, 2 kW continous and 15 kW short duration (for 3 sec) rated Field Flashing Resistor is considered. The resistor shall be set in line with field trials during
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commisisoning.

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