18-bi-2020-ue Large Generators and High Power Drives

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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Georg Traxler-Samek; Yves Gemeinder; Dr.-Ing. Martin Weicker

Event type: Exercise

Org-unit: Dept. 18 - Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Displayed in timetable as: UE Großgeneratoren

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Hours per week: 1

Language of instruction: German and English

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Course Contents:
Design of large electric generators: Special cooling methods with air, hydrogen and water, loss evaluation, especially eddy current losses, and measures to reduce the additional losses. Design of big hydrogenerators up to 800 MVA and turbo generators up to 2000 MVA with desing examples. Application of power electronics in large variable speed drives with synchronous motors: Synchronous converter and cyclo-converter. Numerous photographs to illustrate applications, excursion with students to special firms or plants.

Literature:
Detailed textbook with calculated examples; Vas, P.: Parameter estimation, condition monitoring, and diagnosis of electrical machines, Clarendon Press, 1993
Fitzgerald, A.; Kingsley, C.; Kusko, A.: Electric machinery, McGraw-Hill, 2003
Leonhard, W.: Control of electrical drives, Springer, 1996

Preconditions:
Physics, Electrical Machines and Drives, Electrical Power Engineering

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Instructors
Yves Gemeinder
Dr.-Ing. Martin Weicker
Prof. Dr. Georg Traxler-Samek