Numerical Average-Value Modeling of Rotating Rectifiers in Brushless Excitation Systems

Brushless excitation systems are widely used for synchronous machines. As a critical part of the system, rotating rectifiers have a significant impact on the system behavior. This paper presents a numerical average-value model (AVM) for rotating rectifiers in brushless excitation systems, where the...

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Published inIEEE transactions on energy conversion Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 1592 - 1601
Main Authors YuQi Zhang, Cramer, Aaron M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2017
Subjects
Atmospheric modeling
Brushless machines
Computational modeling
converters
generators
Impedance
Load modeling
Numerical models
Rotors
simulation
Windings
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Summary:Brushless excitation systems are widely used for synchronous machines. As a critical part of the system, rotating rectifiers have a significant impact on the system behavior. This paper presents a numerical average-value model (AVM) for rotating rectifiers in brushless excitation systems, where the essential numerical functions are extracted from the detailed simulations and vary depending on the loading conditions. Open-circuit voltages of the brushless exciter armature are used to calculate the dynamic impedance that represents the loading condition. The model is validated by comparison with an experimentally validated detailed model of the brushless excitation system in three distinct cases. It has been demonstrated that the proposed AVM can provide accurate simulations in both transient and steady states with fewer time steps and less runtime compared with detailed models of such systems and that the proposed AVM can be combined with AVM models of other rectifiers in the system to reduce the overall computational cost.
ISSN:0885-8969
1558-0059
DOI:10.1109/TEC.2017.2706961