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Smarak Swain
Manager, IEM
Separate DC Excitation
Brushless Excitation
Static Excitation
Separate DC Excitation System
Static Excitation for PH#5
PROS CONS
Most electrical and BHEL’s products are
electronic instruments in usually not its own R&D
PH5 are of BHEL make. products. Products are
Easier retrofitting not the latest in market
possible BHEL’s digital-AVR is
We have been dealing costly
with BHEL for a long Few monitoring and add-
time on facilities available in
BHEL’s loyal and prompt excitation systems of
service makes it a other vendors are not
favourite available
ABB AVRs (PROS)
All logical and sequential control functions for
different modes of operation are built-in, and so
there is no necessity of any engineered
applications like stand-alone PLC programs
Control interface to the control room available
through remote HMI facility
Built in Data Logger allows System Debugging over
wide time areas
Built in Fault Logger stores up 99 Faults
Static excitation system (~70 lacs) cheaper than
that of BHEL excitation system (~80 lacs)
GE Energy D-AVRs (PROS)