IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENERGY CONVERSION, VOL. 19, NO. 2, JUNE 2004 245
Double Winding, High-Voltage Cable Wound
Generator: Steady-State and Fault Analysis
Marguerite Touma-Holmberg, Member, IEEE, and Kailash Srivastava, Senior Member, IEEE
Abstract—This paper describes a detailed circuit representation
of synchronous machines equipped with two similar or dissimilar
armature windings. The equivalent circuit at steady state is pre-
sented. The self and mutual leakage inductances of the two sets
of three-phase stator windings are evaluated by the finite element
method as well as an analytical method. The simulation results
from a steady-state analysis as well as a fault analysis are verified
experimentally on the world’s first high-voltage generator Power-
former installed in Porjus, Sweden, rated at 45 kV and 11 MVA.
Index Terms—Double winding, fault, inductance, leakage, Pow-
erformer, steady state, synchronous.
I. INTRODUCTION
S
YNCHRONOUS machines with two similar armature
windings have been designed and installed even in the first
quarter of the 20th century to permit the electrical segregation
of bus sections in large stations. By loading the windings inde-
pendently, the advantages of a higher generator reactance and,
hence, lower fault currents were obtained, while yet retaining
adequate synchronizing power [1]. The generated voltages in
the two windings were substantially equal in magnitude as well
as in phase. Later on, Robert et al. [2] demonstrated that the
stray losses due to the phase harmonics could be substantially
reduced if the two windings were displaced 30 from each
other.
Leijon et al. [3] presented a new concept of rotating ma-
chines that enable direct connection of synchronous generators
to the transmission network without any intervening step-up
transformers. Such a synchronous machine is called Power-
former. Powerformer has the possibility of simultaneous direct
connection to several different grid voltages through different
stator windings. Such a secondary stator winding can also be
used for power supply at the standard medium and low-voltage
levels to feed power plant auxiliaries. In pump-storage plants,
the second winding can be used to start up the water pump. In
turbo power plants, the second winding can be used to start up
the gas turbine, thereby avoiding an extra motor.
Fuchs et al. [4] analyzed a double winding alternator by or-
thogonal transformations. The effect of the leakage inductances
and damper windings were not considered. Schiferl et al. [5] de-
scribed a detailed circuit model of a six-phase salient pole syn-
Manuscript received November 13, 2002.
M. Touma-Holmberg is with the ALSTOM Power, Vasteras SE-721 76,
Sweden (e-mail: meh@work.utfors.se).
K. Srivastava is with the ABB, Vasteras SE-721 78, Sweden (e-mail:
kailash.srivastava@secrc.abb.se).
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TEC.2004.827024
Fig. 1. Phasor diagram of a double winding synchronous machine.
chronous motor with ac-dc stator connections including stator
self and mutual leakage inductances.
This paper presents a detailed circuit model of a double
winding three-phase salient pole synchronous machine. The
self and mutual leakage inductances of the two sets of the
three-phase stator windings are calculated by the finite element
method (FEM) as well as an analytical method due to Richter
[6]. The calculated results from a steady-state analysis as
well as a fault analysis are verified against the measurements
performed on the world’s first double winding Powerformer
installed at Porjus Hydropower station in Sweden.
II. EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT REPRESENTATION
The schematic representation of a double winding
three-phase synchronous machine is shown in Fig. 1.
The six stator windings are arranged so that two sets of three-
phase balanced systems labeled and are formed. The
magnetic axes of these two systems are displaced by an ar-
bitrary angle . The stator windings of both systems and
are sinusoidally distributed windings, displaced by ,
with and equivalent turns and resistances and ,
respectively. The rotor is equipped with a field winding and
two damper windings. The field winding referred to as the
winding has equivalent turns with a resistance . The
damper winding referred to as the winding is along the direct
axis, which is called the -axis. The damper winding referred to
as the winding is along the quadrature axis, which is called
the -axis. The -axis is ahead of the -axis by an angle in
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