Permanent magnet synchronous generators (PMSGs) are novel generators which can be used in high-performance wind farms. High efficiency and flexibility in producing electricity from variable rotation make them good candidate for wind power applications. Furthermore, because these kinds of generators have no excitation winding, there is no copper loss on rotor; hence, they can operate at high pow...

Synchronous generator theory has been known since the beginning of its use, but modelling and analysis synchronous generators is still very existent in present-day. Modern digital computers enable development detailed simulation models, thus individual power system elements, including generators, are represented by highest degree order models software packages. In this paper, first, a mathemati...

This paper presents the development of a new time domain simulation program for the computation of machine and network transients over a wide frequency spectrum. The program uses the extensive capability for the detailed representation of, and the computation of electromagnetic transients on, the power system network available in the BPA Electromagnetic Transients Program (EMTP). The model of t...

This paper studies the use of the PMSM (permanent magnet synchronous machine) generators instead of the induction based alternating current generators in renewable energy sources (wind turbines, combined heat and power, etc.). The paper considers the most significant advantages of the novel permanent magnet technology such as increased specific power, high torque, reduced maintenance costs, inc...

Diagnostics of synchronous generator turn-to-turn faults can be accomplished by analyzing the anomalies of machine local variable such as magnetic flux linkage. On the other hand, because current transformers and voltage transformers are usually installed in the machine for different purposes as default, the monitoring schemes that depend on the study of these inputs have become a topic of inte...

Sleep spindles are approximately 1 s bursts of 10-16 Hz activity that occur during stage 2 sleep. Spindles are highly synchronous across the cortex and thalamus in animals, and across the scalp in humans, implying correspondingly widespread and synchronized cortical generators. However, prior studies have noted occasional dissociations of the magnetoencephalogram (MEG) from the EEG during spind...

The frequency droop response of conventional turbine driven synchronous generators with respect to load increases is normally used in order to have stable operating characteristics for multiple generators operating in parallel over large geographical regions. This presents a challenge for renewable energy sources that interface to the transmission grid through static inverters that do not exhib...