
CEAPTER  ONE
.A'UTOMATIC 
CONIROL 
OF  S}"I{CHRONOUS 
GENERATON 
EXCITATION
Sometimes 
tbe voltage relay is corDected 
to 
a separate 
voltage 
tr8lslorEer 
:  I-3, 
Excitation 
Compoundiaq 
with 
Cuqulative
which 
is 
LqBd only 
by 
the etcitation  iegul4ting device apd it has 
po 
fuses and 
i 
Connertinn 
.'t tr'.lectropq-gn€tic 
Vellag€
circuit 
breakers iD 
the 
E*suring 
circuit.s. The circuits oJ tbe exoitation lorcing 
Corlector
devices 
ean 
be also contro]]ed 
by 
blocking  blown 
fuses 
in  a 
way 
similar  to  the
remote-control 
protection 
of 
transmission 
lines.
To 
improve 
the 
efficienc-v  oi 
the 
excitation 
forcing 
devices,  the 
voitage
relays 
are connected 
to  a forward 
sequence 
voltage filter 
(Fig. 
1-6a). 
Often 
this
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Generator 
compounding, 
i.e., 
changing 
the 
current 
floq,in 
the  fieid 
coil
as dictated 
b-r' the 
current, 
florn' in 
the statoi 
with 
a 
view 
to 
improving 
tbe 
g.or-
rator 
external 
characteristic 
is 
accomplished_ 
b-v rectifying 
and 
add"ing tJ 
the
fieid 
current 
(Fig. 
1-7) 
a 
current. 
proportionai 
to 
the 
statoi 
curent.
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Fig.  t-6.  Ercitation 
forcing with 
the 
aid 
of relay
sequence 
iilter
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excitation 
forcing circuit: 
(b) 
internal 
connections
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voiiiee'to
filter 
is 
of 
the 
resistance-capacilance 
t-rrpe 
(Fig.
also 
potential  diagrams  of 
the fiiter, 
when 
it  is
connected  through  forward-
of 
filter; 
(c) 
diagram 
sholving
dirqrem  shn*'inr  annlieation  nf
til 
ter
1-6b). Shou'n in 
the 
Figure 
are
at 
the 
forward 
and backward-
sa tis-
(1-s)
of  the
-->
Iph 
conl 
/.  I
' 
tDj
sequence 
voltages.
It  is clear 
from  the 
diagram 
that  if  the impedance  of  the 
filter 
arms
fies 
tle 
condition
R1: rs1: frcz: 
R2: 
+ 
, 
+
tlre filter  output 
voltage  at  the 
positirre 
phase 
sequence is  150 
per 
cent
rated 
interphase 
voltage.
The 
excitation 
forcing  device 
must 
be furnished  with  switches 
to 
allor*'
attending 
personnei 
to remove 
the 
device 
from 
operation.  Because of 
the simple
conslruction 
of 
the 
relay-type 
excitation 
forcing 
system,  its  application  is
liitel--v 
to be usefui for  all 
senerators 
and synchronous capacitors. 
whaLever 
the
automatic 
excitation  regulation  devices 
enployed 
by  these 
machines.
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Fig.  1-7. 
Compounding 
device 
principle
(o) 
full  current 
compoundingl 
(b) 
pbaee 
compounding
With 
combined 
use 
of 
a-compounding 
device and 
an eJectronagnetic 
voltage
corrector,  two 
systems 
fo-r 
excitation 
compounding 
of  geierators 
miy
he 
employed.-_These 
are 
't'ull 
current 
contpoundtng 
and,-phast 
io*pounding. 
I;
the 
case 
of 
ful] 
current 
compounding 
the 
actions 
proportional 
to the 
stator 
cur-
rent 
and  the generator 
voltage-fed 
from 
the 
iuitrument 
current 
aud 
voitage
transformers 
are 
summed 
up 
.after 
rectification 
of 
the 
currents. 
In  the 
caEe
of 
phase 
copPou-nding-this 
is-done 
before rectification 
of 
the 
currents, 
i.e., 
on
the 
a.c. 
side, which 
allou's 
the. effect 
of the 
phase 
angle 
between 
the 
stator
current 
and the voltage 
to 
be taken 
into 
account.
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