AC Generator

• is a device that converts motive power (mechanical energy)

into electrical power for use in an external circuit.

• Sources of mechanical energy include steam turbines,

water turbines, internal combustion engines and even
hand cranks. The first electromagnetic generator, the Faraday
disk, was invented in 1831 by British scientist Michael Faraday.
DIESEL POWER PLANT
 Basic Working Principle

• If a coil is rotated in a magnetic

field, a current will be induced in
the coil. The altogether principle
of AC motor is Electromagnetism.
• The strength of this induced
current depends upon the
number of magnetic lines of
force passing through the
coil.

• The number of lines of

magnetic force passing
through the coil will be
maximum when the plane of
the coil is perpendicular to
the lines of magnetic force.
• The armature is arranged so that it
can rotate freely in the magnetic
field. As the armature turns, the
wire loops cut through magnetic
field lines and induced E.M.F will
be produced.

• These e.m.f developed by the

generator depends upon the length
of the wire rotating in the field.
Increasing the number of loops in
the armature increases the the wire
length thereby increasing the
induced e.m.f
When a generator is connected in a closed circuit, the induced
e.m.f generates an electric current As the loop rotates, the
strength and the direction of the current changes .
As the loop continues to rotate the segment that was moving
upward begins to move downwards and reverses the direction of
e.m.f and the current in the loop.
• The change in direction takes place each time the loop turns
through 180 degrees . Thus e.m.f and the current changes
smoothly from zero to some maximum values back to zero during
each half-turn of the loop.