In this paper, among the miscellaneous tests on the Tokyo Line of the Nihon Electric Power Company, which were carried out at Yanagawara Power Station in January 1928, the characteristic tests of generators themselves and line charging characteristics are described, and also the behaviour of synchronous machines connected to the long distance transmission line is discussed. Three 20, 000 kVA generators at this station are designed to operate at two cycles by changing their armature winding connections, namely normal straight star at 50 cycles and inter-connected star at 60 cycles. The general characteristics of alternators having such windings are considered and the efficiency, positive phase-sequence impedance, negative phase-sequence impedance, leakage reactance and armature reaction are discussed at each connection. The positive phase-sequence impedance may be represented in the form
Z=2(Z
1+Z
1') for straight star connection
Z
'=2Z
1+Z
1' for inter-connected star connection
where Z
1 is the positive phase-sequence impedance of one group winding (see Fig. 5) and Z
1' the mutual impedance between two winding groups, and can be determined from experiments. We obtained from test data Z'=80-89% of Z1 and Z1
' may be considered as 40-70% of Z
1.
Next, three-phase line charging tests are described. The generator characteristics excited by zero p. f. armature leading current are obtaind by the graphical method and compared with the actual test data. Favourable coincidence is ascertained. Switch-in transient phenomena of the generator on the no-load transmission lin are discussed and their nature is examined from the oscillogram actually obtained.
The voltage built-up time of the generator is calculated by the author's method (the details of which may be described in later report) and satisfac- tory agreement with actual oscillographic data is obtained.
Next, single-phase line charging tests or the pressure test of transmission line and the behaviour of the generator are discussed. The generator char-acteristics are considered for two cases of transformer connections (see Fig. 11) and the solution at each case is obtained by two methods-one, by the Method of Symmetrical Co-ordinates; the other, by ordinary graphical method. In view of the generator stability on such a single-phase condensive load, the transformer connection B in Fig. 15 is preferable.
The general nature of synchronous machines for transmission line stability is discussed and the significance of short-circuit ratio and the quick-response excitation system are described. Numerical examples of short-circuit ratio for-large machines in Japan are mentioned.
This paper consists of the following articles:
(i) General description of the Yanagawara Power Station.
(ii) Characteristics of the generator to be used at 50 and 60 cycles.
(a) Positive phase-sequence impedance
(b) Negative phase-sequence impedance
(c) Leakage reactance
(d) Armature reaction
(iii) Transmission line charging tests.
(a) Results of the experiments
(b) Transient phenomena of the generator suddenly connected to the no-load transmission line
(iv) Pressure test for the transmission line and the charactristics of the generator.
(a) By the Method of Symmetrical Co-ordinates
(b) By the graphical method
(v) Generator characteristics regarding to the transmission line stability.
(a) Short circuit ratio
(b) Quick-response excitation
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