Hydro Sales Training

Module 3

1. More Hydro
Information
2. Advanced Hydro
Condition Monitoring
Ray Jensen
10 July
2007

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What are we targeting
•High Revenue/High cost of repair units
– 3500/System 1/Services
– Large Plants

•Smaller units
– 1900/65
• Problem units
•Get in early!

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General Hydro Customer
Attributes
•Partnerships
•Internal resources available
•R&D
•Becoming more business focused

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Business Drivers
• Different machine operation regimes
• Support of general budgets
• Remote dispatch and operation
• Availability
• Safety
• Waste of fuel

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Typical condition monitoring
Process
Data
Turbine
Controller

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Hydro Specific CM
System 1
• Hydro specific plots
• Multi Mode data storage
• Ruledesk

Services
• Diagnostic Hydro
Experience
• Installation Experience

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Hydro Specific Sensors
Partial Discharge
• Iris Power preferred
provider
• Industry Standard

Magnetic Flux
• Iris Power preferred
provider

Seal Ring/Blade Tip

Clearance
• Unusual measurement
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 Hydro Measurements
Generator Stator
Specific Applications

• Frame Vibration
– Velocity or low-frequency
Temperature
accelerometer
• Stator
Rotor
• Temperature • Bearings
Gates– RTD or thermocouples

ons
• Generator Coolers
stay vane
• Partial Discharge

Process Variables
– Third-party Partial Discharge
Analyzer (PDA) system
existing
ADA
or- • Flow Rate
ducer
• Wicket gate or needle
position
wicket gate
• Generator MW

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Questions?

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Pictures

Boundary Dam
in NW
Washington
state. 6 units,
1.1 GW total
Pictures

Boundary
Dam
Generator
Pictures

Coupling
Bolts
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Pictures

Rotor section (1
of 2) for 13

Boundary Dam
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Pictures

Francis turbine
wheel (runner)
for Boundary
Dam
Pictures

Boundary
Dam Stator
core with
rotor
Pictures
St Lawrence Dam
straddling US –
Canada border in
upstate New
York. 32 units
total, ~2GW

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Pictures
Jaybird powerhouse
in Eastern
California. 2 units,
~140 MW total

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Pictures
Replacement pelton
wheel for Jaybird
Powerhouse.

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Pictures
Installed Bently
Nevada Air Gap
Sensor.

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Key Components

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Key Components
Generator –
Stator support
frame as seen
from the outside

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Key Components
Generator –
Stator from
above. Stator
core in gray,
stator frame in
blue

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Key Components

Generator – Stator laminations, entire stator core is

made up of stacks of very thin steel laminations
attached to stator frame 23

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Key Components
Generator – Stator
windings thread
through ‘fingers’ of the
stator core laminations.
Windings are in red,
black components are
the rotor and rotor
poles.

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Key Components
Generator – Rotor
• Poles are wound with
wire and a DC voltage is
applied to generate a
magnetic field.

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Key Components
Wicket Gates and
spiral case deliver
water through the
turbine

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Power Generation
• Salient pole generators – All hydro-turbine generators
utilize this style of synchronous generator which consist
of individually wound poles.

• Speed control critical – For synchronization to the power

grid
– Wicket gates (or Needles for Pelton style turbines)– Control water
flow to regulate speed and power output
– Governors – Provides feedback loop to control wicket gate position

• Peaker vs Base Load – Hydros are used for either

application due to amazing operational flexibility.

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Power Generation
How the plant works
• http://www.wvic.com/hydro-works.htm

How a generator works

• http://www.wvic.com/how-gen-works.htm

How a hydro facility works

• http://people.howstuffworks.com/hydropower-plant.htm

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