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Electric Power Components and Systems, 38:100114, 2010

Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

ISSN: 1532-5008 print/1532-5016 online

DOI: 10.1080/15325000903273338

Modeling and Simulation of Internal Faultsin Salient-pole Synchronous Generatorswith Wave Windings

AMRITA SINHA,1 D. N. VISHWAKARMA,1 and

R. K. SRIVASTAVA1

1Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technology,

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Abstract When an internal fault occurs in the wave-connected windings of salient-

pole synchronous generators, the symmetry between the parallel windings is broken,and different currents flow in them since unsymmetrical magnetic linkage exists

between the stator windings. The aim of this article is to present a model to investigatethe internal fault currents in large hydrogenerators with wave windings. This model

is based on a modified winding function approach, where the machine inductancesare calculated directly from the machine winding distribution, and the space harmon-

ics produced by them are also taken into account. The calculation of the machineinductances are made easier by the use of machine electrical parameters instead of

geometrical parameters. The fast Fourier transform analysis of the simulated resultshas been tabulated for different cases of internal faults. By using the simulated

internal fault data, suitable numerical protection schemes for hydrogenerators canbe developed.

Keywords internal faults, salient-pole synchronous generators, hydrogenerators,modified winding function, parallel windings

1. Introduction

Hydrogenerators used in hydel power stations are large salient-pole synchronous gener-

ators that form an important part of the modern power system and usually have wave-

connected stator windings. Knowledge about the internal faults in the stator windings

of large synchronous machines is essential, as the large fault currents may cause severedamage to the windings and possibly to the shaft and coupling of the machine. In order to

design an appropriate numerical protection scheme for synchronous generators to protect

against internal faults, it is important to get the fault data. However, it is impractical and

very difficult to get actual synchronous generator fault data. Therefore, a detailed analysis

of a variety of situations is done by simulating a synchronous generator under internal

fault conditions, i.e., turn-to-turn, inter-turn, turn-to-frame, insulation failure, etc., which

is more versatile and cost effective. An internal fault simulation requires access to the

stator winding using the modified winding function approach.

Received 25 March 2009; accepted 8 June 2009.

Address correspondence to Dr. Amrita Sinha, Department of Electrical Engineering, Instituteof Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221 005, India. E-mail: [email protected]

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the calculation of the machine inductances. The advantage of the simulation method

described in this article takes into account the mutual inductances between all possible

pairs of windings and, hence, provides the unbalanced currents in all the individual

parallel paths of the three phases under internal fault conditions.

2. Modified Winding Function Approach

A modified winding function theory, as expressed by Eqs. (1) and (2) and discussed

in [20], is used in this article to take into account the effect of the non-uniform air

gap and non-sinusoidally distributed windings in the case of internal faults in large

synchronous generators:

Lxy D 20r l hg1.';/nx .'; /ny .';/i

20r lhg1.';/nx .';/ihg

1.'; /ny.';/i

hg1.';/i ; (1)

where

0 is the permeability of the free space;

r is the average radius of the air gap;

l is the axial stack length of the machine;

g1.';/ is the inverse air gap length;

nx.';/ and ny.';/ are the turns function of the windings x and y, respectively;

' is the angle along the inner surface of the stator; and

is the angular position of the rotor with respect to the stator reference axis.

Operator hfiis defined as the mean value of function f over 0; 2 as follows:

hfi D1

2

Z20

f.'/d': (2)

For a 2p pole synchronous machine analysis, the inverse air gap length is usually

approximated as [21]

g1.';/ D 0 2 cos.2p /; (3)

where the minimum air-gap length is .0 C 2/1, and the maximum air-gap length is

.0 2/1. Substituting Eq. (3) into Eq. (1) and neglecting the higher order harmonics,

the mutual inductance Lxy of the stator windings is given by

Lxy D K0hnxnyi hnxihnyi

K2hnxny cos.2p.' //i hnxihny cos.2p.' //i

hnyihnx cos.2p.' //i; (4)

where coefficients K0 and K2 are given by

K0 D 20r l0 and K2 D 20r l2:


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where

e D e1 e2 em efd e1d e1qt ;

D 1 2 m fd 1d 1q t ;

R D diagR1 R2 Rm Rfd R1d R1q ;

and

i D i1 i2 im ifd i1d i1qt :

The flux linkage is expressed as

D Li; (12)

where L is the inductance matrix, given as

L D

26666666666666666664

L11 M12 M13 M1m M1f M1kd M1kq

M12 L22 M23 M2m M2f M2kd M2kq

M13 M23 L33 M3m M3f M3kd M3kq

::::::

::: :::

::::::

:::

::::::

::: :::

::::::

:::

M1m M2m M3m Lmm Mmf Mmkd Mmkq

M1f M2f M3f Mmf Lff MfD MfQ

M1kd M2kd M3kd Mmkd MfD LDD MDQ

M1kq M1kq M3kq Mmkq MfQ MDQ LQQ

37777777777777777775

: (13)

Here, m D 3n C 1 for a fault in any one path, m D 3n C 2 for a fault between two

paths, and n D the number of parallel paths. Therefore, the inductance matrix is of the

order of m C 3, i.e., the m stator paths and three rotor circuits. When the machine is

supplying through a short transmission line (Figure 1), the machine terminal voltages can

be expressed as

e D V iRE idLE

dt iRG i

dLG

dt; (14)

where RE and LE are both m-by-m diagonal matrices, and the elements are the resistance

RE and inductance LE of the short transmission line, respectively; RG and LG are

both m-by-m diagonal matrices, and the elements are the grounding resistance RG and

inductance LG , respectively, of the generator to limit the fault current. V represents

the m-by-1 infinite bus phase voltage vector. The equation of motion of a synchronous

generator can be expressed by

d2

dt2D

!

2H.Tmech Telec/; (15)

where

! is the synchronous speed,


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Figure 1. Winding distribution diagram of path a1 of phase a in the stator slots.

H is the inertia constant,

Tmech is the mechanical input torque, and

Telec is the electrical torque.

The electrical torque is given by

Te D1

2iTs

@Lss

@is C i

Ts

@Lrs

@ir ; (16)

where

is D i1 i2 im,

ir D if i1d i1q,

Lss is the stator inductance matrix, and

Lrs is the rotor to stator mutual inductance matrix.

The synchronous machine modeling during an internal fault can be done with thehelp of Eqs. (11)(16). The elements of the inductance matrix can be calculated from

Eqs. (4)(10).

4. Internal Fault Simulation

The modified winding function approach has been used to model a three-phase hydro-

generator with two parallel paths per phase, and its electrical parameters are given in

the appendix. The winding arrangement of path a1 are in Figure 1. This salient-pole

synchronous generator has 18 poles, 216 slots, and double-layer wave winding. A single-

turn coil, in which the coil sides are made in the form of roebel bars, has been used in thestator winding. These coils are constructed after considering the skin effect losses. In

the straight slot portion, the conductors or strips are transposed by 360. The transposition


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Figure 2. Turns function of paths a1 and a2 of phase a.

is done to ensure that all the strips occupy equal length under similar conditions of the

flux. The transposition provides for a mutual neutralization of the voltages induced in the

individual strips due to the slot cross-field and ensures that no or only small circulating

currents exists in the bar interior. This also reduces the eddy current losses and helps in

obtaining uniform e.m.f.

The turns functions of the phase distribution of the two parallel paths of phase a (a1and a2) along the entire periphery of the stator are shown in Figure 2, and are apparently

non-sinusoidal.

Figure 3 shows the system representation, where a11 and a12 are the two sub-

windings under an internal fault condition in a1. Under a normal condition without

internal fault, the machine can be seen as a system of nine magnetically coupled circuits

in which six are stator circuits. The stator-to-stator mutual inductances are evaluated usingEqs. (4)(8). The stator-to-rotor mutual inductances are evaluated using Eqs. (9)(11).

The parameters of the rotor winding are directly calculated from the machine standard

electrical parameters.

Figure 3. System representation of hydrogenerator with two parallel paths during a turn-to-ground

fault.


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The machine model is simulated in the MATLAB/SIMULINK environment and has

been solved using a TR-BDF2 solver (an implicit Runga-Kutta formula with a first stage

that is a trapezoidal rule step and a second stage that is a backward differentiation formula

of order two). Since the elements of the inductance matrix depend on the position of

the rotor , the matrix L and its inverse have to be evaluated at each step in order to

determine the current.

4.1. Turn-to-ground Fault

The turn-to ground fault in path a1 is shown in Figure 1. Under an internal fault condition,

winding a1 is divided into two sub-windings, a11 and a12. The part adjacent to the

machine terminal that is connected to the infinite bus through the transmission line is

referred to as a11, while the part adjacent to the neutral that is short circuited through the

ground is referred to as a12. Therefore, the machine can be viewed as ten magnetically

coupled circuits, as given in the inductance matrix in Eq. (14), instead of nine under a

normal condition. Hence, the current, voltage, resistance, and inductance matrices are allaugmented by one to take the faulted path into account.

Thus, in the matrices Re and Le , the element corresponding to sub-winding a12 is

zero, taking into account that it is not connected to the transmission line. For the same

reason, the element corresponding to a12 is also zero in the voltage matrix. Similarly, in

the matrices Rg and Lg, the element corresponding to a11 is zero, as it is not connected

to the ground terminal. In the matrix Ra, the element corresponding a11 will be (Ra %

of unfaulted portion), and a12 will be (Ra % of faulty portion).

The turns function of a11 and a12 is shown in Figure 4 for a fault at 36% in

path a1 from the neutral, referring to their placements in the stator. From the figure,

it can be seen that due to the different winding distribution and position of the two

sub-windings a11 and a12, the neutral inductances between the sub-windings and the other

windings are different; hence, there exists different magnetic linkages between them. The

self-inductances of paths a11, a12, and a2 of phase a and the mutual inductances between

them for a fault at 36% from neutral after the inception of the fault are shown in Figure 5.

This shows that different magnetic linkages exist between them due to the different

position and winding distribution of the two sub-windings a11 and a12. The current in

each parallel path has been simulated and is shown in Figure 6. Before the inception

of the fault, the currents in each parallel path are balanced, but as the fault occurs at

0.04 sec, the currents become unbalanced in both phase and amplitude. From the result, it

Figure 4. Turns function of sub-windings of a1 winding for a fault in slot number 111 at 36%

from neutral.


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Figure 5. Self-inductance of paths a11, a12 , and a2 of phase a and mutual inductances between

them for a fault in slot number 111 at 36% from neutral.

is clear that the mutual inductances between the faulted path and all other paths change.

Since parallel paths have their individual proximity to the various faulted paths, they are

affected in a different way.

4.2. Inter-turn Fault

An inter-turn fault has been simulated for path a1 in slot number 40 as per the winding

distribution shown in Figure 2. Under this condition, winding a1 is also divided into two

sub-windings, a11 and a12. The unfaulted portion is taken as a11, and the faulty portion

of the winding is a12. The turns function of a11 and a12 is shown in Figure 7 for a fault

in path a1 at 28% and 68% from the neutral, referring to their placements in the stator.

The current in all parallel paths has been simulated and is shown in Figure 8.

Figure 6. Plot of currents in all parallel paths for fault in a1 winding in slot number 111 at 36%

from neutral.


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Figure 7. Turns function for inter-turn fault in a1 winding in slot number 40.

4.3. Turn-to-turn Fault

If a fault between two parallel paths is simulated, then the machine can be viewed as

11 magnetically coupled circuits, as per Eq. (14). Therefore, all of the matrices have tobe augmented by two to take both the faulted paths into account. The Re , Le , Rg, Lg ,

Ra, and the voltage matrix elements corresponding to the faulted windings have to be

re-evaluated as explained in the case of turn-to-ground fault.

A turn-turn-ground fault between paths a1 and a2 has been simulated near slot

number 185, i.e., at 81% of a1 and 61% of a2 from neutral. The turns function of the

healthy and faulty portions of the two affected windings and the simulated currents are

as shown in Figures 9 and 10, respectively.

Similarly, a fault between two paths of different phases has been simulated, i.e., in

slot number 97, i.e., at 67% of a1 and 70% of b1 from neutral. In Figure 11, the turns

function of a1

and b1

for the healthy and faulty portions is shown. The simulated results

of all the parallel path currents are shown in Figure 12.

Table 1 gives, in detail, the values of the DC component, fundamental frequency

component, and total harmonic distortion in all parallel paths of all the phases of the stator

winding at different values of the fault inception angle under different types of internal

fault. These values have been obtained using fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis, taking

200 samples per cycle for a period of ten cycles from the instant of inception of a fault

for the faults discussed above.

Figure 8. Plot of currents in all parallel paths for inter-turn fault in a1 winding in slot number 40.


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Figure 9. Turns function of sub-windingsa1 and

a2 for turn-to-turn fault near slot number 185 at

81% ofa1 and 61% ofa2 from neutral.

Figure 10. Plot of currents in all parallel paths for turn-to-turn fault between sub-windings ofa1and a2 winding near slot number 185 at 81% ofa1 and 61% ofa2 from neutral.

Figure 11. Turns function of sub-windings ofa1 and b2 for turn-to-turn fault in slot number 97.


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Figure 12. Plot of currents of all parallel paths for turn-to-turn fault between a1 and b2 in slot

number 97.

Therefore, the machine model has the capability of simulating a variety of internal

faults, i.e., the turn-to-ground fault in any one parallel path, the inter-turn fault or turn-

to-turn fault between parallel paths of the same phase or between two phases, etc. The

results show that the transients occurring at the inception of the fault is significant and

can be useful in developing the design of the suitable intelligent protection scheme for

salient-pole synchronous generators.

5. Conclusion

In this article, a simulation model of internal faults in large salient-pole synchronous

generators with wave windings has been presented. The currents of all the parallel

paths can be investigated as the machine winding voltage equations are established

according to the machine winding connections. The model is based on a modified

winding function approach, which takes into account the effect of all space harmonics,

as the faulted winding inductance is integrated automatically. In order to avoid the

difficulty of calculating the machine inductances by using the geometrical parameters,

the same have been calculated by the use of machine electrical parameters. The simu-

lation results illustrate the unbalanced currents flowing in the parallel windings underinternal fault conditions. The values of the DC component, the fundamental frequency

component, and total harmonic distortion have been obtained at different fault incep-

tion angles and under different fault conditions using FFT analysis. Accuracy and the

simplicity make this model more reliable and convenient for the study of internal faults

in large hydrogenerators with wave windings. Since the simulation method tabulates

an inductance matrix based upon the winding distribution of a particular machine, this

is applicable to a specific machine, and hence, the results cannot be generalized. For

internal faults very near to the terminal and the neutral, the inductance matrix becomes

almost singular where inversion is not possible. Hence, simulation under these cases is

not possible.Using the simulated fault data under different internal fault conditions, a suitable

intelligent protection scheme for salient-pole synchronous generators can be developed.


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Table1

Currentunderdifferentinterna

lfaultconditionsthrough

FFT

analysis

Ia1

Ia2

I

b1

I

b2

Ic1

Ic2

T

ypeof

fault

Inception

angle

DC

comp.

Fun

d.

RM

S

THD

DC

comp.

Fund.

RMS

THD

D

C

com

p.

Fund.

RMS

THD

DC

comp.

Fund.

RMS

T

HD

DC

comp.

Fund.

RMS

THD

DC

comp.

Fund.

RMS

THD

Steadystate

0

0.0

04

0.50

8

0.1

7

0.0

04

0.5

08

0.1

7

0.0

02

0.5

08

0.1

6

0.0

02

0.5

080

.16

0.0

02

0.5

08

0.2

0

0.0

02

0.5

08

0.2

0

45

0.0

03

0.50

8

0.1

4

0.0

03

0.5

08

0.1

4

0.0

04

0.5

08

0.1

8

0.0

04

0.5

080

.18

0.0

01

0.5

08

0.2

0

0.0

01

0.5

08

0.2

0

90

0.0

01

0.50

8

0.1

4

0.0

01

0.5

08

0.1

4

0.0

03

0.5

08

0.2

0.0

03

0.5

080

.2

0.0

03

0.5

08

0.1

8

0.0

03

0.5

08

0.1

8

a1aga

t

0

0.3

51

0.92

0

0.7

0.0

23

0.4

29

3.3

1

0.1

39

0.4

68

2.7

8

0.0

99

0.4

642

.51

0.3

38

0.7

35

4.0

1

0.2

29

0.6

32

3.7

3

36%

from

neutral

45

0.1

05

0.93

2

0.5

5

0.0

06

0.4

44

2.8

3

0.0

37

0.4

72

2.5

7

0.0

21

0.4

632

.41

0.0

87

0.7

08

3.9

2

0.0

57

0.6

05

3.8

4

90

0.4

94

0.94

0

1.0

3

0.0

34

0.4

57

2.7

8

0.1

90

0.4

81

3.0

7

0.1

27

0.4

652

.71

0.4

57

0.6

85

4.0

0

0.3

06

0.5

82

4.0

9

Turn-to-turn

0

0.7

67

1.01

1

1.3

8

0.1

33

0.2

24

2.7

4

0.1

49

0.3

41

0.9

4

0.0

39

0.2

991

.04

0.2

06

0.2

42

1.6

5

0.2

29

0.2

88

1.9

0

faultina1

45

0.4

15

1.00

9

1.6

5

0.7

08

0.2

27

2.5

5

0.0

86

0.3

39

0.8

7

0.0

18

0.2

971

.06

0.1

18

0.2

39

1.3

7

0.1

24

0.2

85

1.8

0

90

0.1

74

0.99

7

1.5

5

0.0

31

0.2

33

2.7

1

0.0

28

0.3

39

1.0

0.0

13

0.2

961

.45

0.0

38

0.2

35

2.0

1

0.0

53

0.2

80

2.1

0

Turn-to-turnfault

0

2.4

75

4.00

6

1.6

1

0.9

11

1.9

01

3.6

3

0.7

87

1.2

14

1.8

3

0.9

18

1.3

1

1

.80

0.9

89

0.9

39

2.4

2

0.6

56

0.6

24

4.1

4

betweena1

anda2

45

1.2

64

4.01

1

2.0

5

1.1

25

1.9

42

4.0

4

0.7

52

1.2

13

2.0

3

0.9

18

1.3

092

.03

0.4

98

0.9

13

2.3

5

0.2

32

0.5

94

4.1

8

90

0.6

86

3.97

7

1.6

6

0.6

69

1.9

78

3.4

2

0.2

68

1.2

27

2.1

6

0.3

69

1.3

242

.01

0.2

81

0.8

84

2.5

2

0.3

23

0.5

62

4.6

2

Turn-to-turnfault

0

2.2

07

2.93

4

5.5

9

0.6

48

1.3

36

4.9

5

0.9

13

2.6

90

2.0

4

0.1

80

1.0

951

.50

0.9

78

1.9

13

5.1

2

0.8

08

1.5

20

1.3

8

betweena1

andb2

45

1.1

56

2.94

1

6.4

8

0.5

84

1.3

44

5.6

8

1.1

22

2.6

89

2.9

3

0.2

52

1.0

892

.15

0.1

32

1.8

27

4.6

5

0.2

34

1.4

66

1.8

6

90

0.6

44

3.00

7

6.3

8

0.1

33

1.3

81

5.5

7

0.5

76

2.7

07

2.7

8

0.1

40

1.0

941

.99

0.7

67

1.7

39

4.7

1

0.4

66

1.4

33

1.7

3

Note:

comp.,component;fund.,

fundamental;THD,

totalharmonicdistortion.

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Using simulated numerical fault data, various architectures of artificial neural networks

(ANNs) will be trained and tested to identify the most suitable architecture of the ANN

that will give the correct information regarding the occurrence of the internal fault in the

hydrogenerator. For on-line application, the relaying of data in numerical form will be

acquired through the data acquisition system, and the same will be processed using the

trained ANN to give the signal regarding the occurrence of fault. After receiving the signal

of the occurrence of the fault, the proper tripping command will be issued to the circuit

breaker to isolate the faulty hydrogenerator.

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