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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
Queen's University Belfast
Effect of Loading, Voltage Difference and Phase Angle on the Synchronisation of a Small Alternator
This work was funded by EPSRC SUPERGEN Amperes (EP/D034531/1). The output represents the truly unique, experimentally verified study of both the torque and current arising from the out-of-phase synchronisation of salient-pole alternators used in distributed generation. This work demonstrates that synchronisation angles can be increased for emergency generator start or island control, and this has been used to develop power system islanding control systems and novel methods of loss-of-mains detection. Knowledge derived from this output was instrumental in attracting funding from UK power utilities (SSE £108k ‘loss-of-mains using phasor measurement’).
