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Chapter 5—Electrical Network 5–19<br />

factors built into the design for short term overloads, but one should not plan to operate a<br />

generator above its rated apparent power or above its rated real power for long periods of<br />

time.<br />

We should also note that generators are rarely operated at exactly rated values. A generator<br />

rated at 220 V and 30 A may be operated at 240 V and 20 A, for example. The<br />

power in the wind is continuously varying, so a generator rated at 2500 kVA and 2000 kW<br />

may be delivering 300 kW to the grid one minute and 600 kW the next minute. Even when<br />

the source is controllable, as in a coal-fired generating plant, a 700-MW generator may be<br />

operated at 400 MW because of low demand. It is therefore important to distinguish between<br />

rated conditions and operating conditions in any calculations.<br />

Rated conditions may not be completely specified on the equipment nameplate, in which<br />

case some computation is required. If a generator has a per phase rated apparent power S R<br />

and a rated line to neutral voltage V R , the rated current is<br />

I R = S R<br />

V R<br />

(34)<br />

Example<br />

The MOD-0 wind turbine has an 1800 r/min synchronous generator rated at 125 kVA at 0.8 pf and<br />

480 volts line to line[8]. The generator parameters are R s = 0.033 Ω/phase and X s = 4.073 Ω/phase.<br />

The generator is delivering 75 kW to the grid at rated voltage and 0.85 power factor lagging. Find<br />

the rated current, the phasor operating current, the total reactive power, the line to neutral phasor<br />

generated voltage E, the power angle delta, the three-phase ohmic losses in the stator, and the pullout<br />

power.<br />

The first step in the solution is to determine the per phase value of terminal voltage, which is<br />

The rated apparent power per phase is<br />

S R = 125<br />

3<br />

The rated current is then<br />

|V | = 480 √<br />

3<br />

= 277 V/phase<br />

=41.67 kVA/phase = 41, 670 VA/phase<br />

I R = S R 41, 670<br />

= = 150.4 A<br />

V R 277<br />

The real power being supplied to the grid per phase is<br />

P = 75<br />

3 =25 kW/phase = 25 × 103 W/phase<br />

From Eq. 14 we can find the magnitude of the phasor operating current to be<br />

Wind Energy Systems by Dr. Gary L. Johnson November 21, 2001

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