In our country, according to the recent development of mercury arc rectifiers, those of iron cylinder type for large direct current power source, especially for railway service, have become generally to be used in place of rotary converters. Though the mercury arc rectifier has many superior properties in comparison with rotary machines, hesitation is sometimes made tor their adaption on account of its inductive interference on weak current lines due to the pulsating rectified voltage wave. It is the inherent characteristic of mercury arc rectifier that the rectified voltage wave has many higher harmonics of supplied frequency and whatever improved the rectifier itself may be, this faulty point could, by no means, be avoided.
The inductive effects, however, can be eliminated for practical purposes by means of several methods, either on the rectifier side or the weak current one.
In this paper, the minimizing methods for voltage ripples on rectifier side arc chiefly described. At first the general voltage wave forms. on rectified circuits with or without load are discussed.
The best safety method of minimizing these ripples is to increase the number of phases of the rectifier. The increase of phase numbers, for example to increase to twelve phase, can economically be made using two ordinary six phase rectifiers each connected to the secondaries of both star-star and deltastar connected transformers of the same source. It is more desirable in view of voltage regulation and load division that the secondaries of both transformers compose of a pair of zigzag 6 phases windings having 30 degrees phase difference to each other.
Next the wave filting apparatus are described and the special theory on the rectified circuits is discussed.
The ideas of wave filters on weak current system, however, are also well applicable to the rectified circuits.
Authors recommend the use of series reactance and shunt reasonance circuits for harmonic frequencies as shown in Fig. 4.
The values of this series inductance and those of resonance circuits, and moreover the numbers of reasonance circuits according to the ripple frequencies, will suitably be changed by the actual grade of inductive effects.
Oscillographic studies for wave filters on rectified circuits are carried out on the 30 KW. iron cylinder rectifiers manufactured by the design of authors and the results are discussed.
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