UNITROL® 5000
Refresher:
Excitation Systems
UNITROL® 5000 Excitation System Main Components
Excitation Transformer
Automatic Voltage
Regulator
AVR
Thyristor
Converter
Crowbar
Field Breaker
UNITROL® 5000 Excitation System Duties
Providing variable DC current with
short time overload capability
Controlling terminal voltage with
suitable accuracy
Ensure stable operation with
AVR network and / or other machines
Keep machine within permissible
operating range
Contribution to transient stability
subsequent to a fault.
Communicate with the power plant
control system
UNITROL® 5000 Power Chart with Opreation Limits
Max. field current limiter
Min. field current limiter
Stator current limiter P
Under excitation P,Q limiter
-Q 1/Xd +Q
UNITROL® 5000 Excitation Transformer
•Galvanic insulation between power
source and rotor winding
•Limitation of DC short circuit current
•Adaptation of supply voltage to reach the
required ceiling voltage
•Air cooled or oil immersed
UNITROL® 5000 Thyristor Converter
•Rectification of AC voltage
•Fast control of DC current
•Inversion of DC voltage
•Short-time overcurrent capability
•Withstand certain overvoltages on
AC side
•Limitation of commutation
overvoltages
UNITROL® 5000 Field Discharge Circuits
•Field Breaker on AC-side of the converter
•Opening of field circuit under fault conditions
•Fast absorption of field energy
•Field overvoltage protection
•Allow machine to slip
UNITROL® 5000 AVR Automatic Voltage Regulator
•Control terminal voltage on preset value with required accuracy
•Ensure stable operation with network and / or other machines
•Keep machine within permissible operating range
•Generate thyristor triggering pulses even under possible fault conditions
•Communicate with the power plant control system
UNITROL® 5000 Basic Characteristics
•Excitation Current up to 10’000 amps
•Input frequency range from 16 Hz to 400 Hz
•Adaptable to different redundancy requirements for controls and converters
•State of the art man machine interface
•Compatibility with most applied power plant control systems
•Remote diagnostics
•Comfortable commissioning tools
UNITROL® 5000 Operational Application
UNITROL® 5000 UNITROL® Product Range
Excitation with
Static Excitation Systems
rotating machines
UNITROL® 5000
UNITROL® F
Range of Application
UN 1000
Ifn
15A 500 A >10’000 A
Generator Power/Excitation current
UNITROL® 5000 Delimitation Against UNF
UNITROL 5000 UNITROLF
REDUNDANCY
- Control Current control back up or Full redundancy
full redundancy
- converter Twin or N-1 Twin
HARDWARE
- No. of digital I/O‘s >32 32
- Current measurement 3-phase 1-phase
BUS COMMUNICATION AF100 30 words AF100 6 Words
CONVERTOR SUPPLY 16…400 Hz (unlim. Current) DC 25 A
16…400 Hz max
300 A
UNITROL® 5000 Delimitation Against UNF
UNITROL 5000 UNITROL
CONTROL FUNCTIONS Adaptive Power Systen
Stabilizer
CONVERTER Negative excitation current
(4 quadrant)
Automatic equalizing of
bridge current
FAULT HANDLING Real time stamp sequence of
faults
Main Standard Software Functions
UNITROL® 5000 Systems Overview
Fieldbreaker
AVR 2
AVR 1
CONVERTER 3
Protection CONVERTER 2
CONVERTER 1
Monitoring
Measuring
Converter
AVR + FCR Control
Logic Control
Field flashing
Field suppression
AVR = Autom. Voltage Reg.
FCR = Field Current Reg.
UNITROL® 5000 Standard Program Functions
CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL (AVR, Limiters, Other controllers)
• Voltage regulator with adjustable PID filter circuit
• Soft-start (gradual voltage increase)
• Reactive and active current droop
• Individually adjustable limiters
- overexcited (max. field current, stator current)
- underexcited (-Q = f (P) * U2, stator current, min. field current)
- Volt per Hertz
AUTOMATIC
• Superimposed controllers
- Power Factor
- MVAr
- Soft-stop (MVAr unload)
• Power System Stabilizer (add. Hardware required)
• Field current regulator with adjustable PI filter
• Follow-up control between AUTO / MAN mode
MANUAL
IARV / UNF10 E
CHIND / 612
UNITROL® 5000 Power Chart with Operation Limits
Max. field current limiter
Min. field current limiter
Stator current limiter P
Under excitation P,Q limiter
-Q 1/Xd +Q
UNITROL® 5000 Superimposed Regulators
a) POWER FACTOR Control b) REACTIVE POWER Control
+P[MW]
+P [MW]
Cos ij = 0.8
-Q +Q [MVAR] -Q +Q[MVAR]
Q = 0.2 p.u
-P
UNITROL® 5000 Standard Program Functions
MONITORING AND PROTECTION
• Thyristor conduction monitoring
• Thyristor heatsink temperature
• DC short-circuit
• Field flashing time
• Loss of actual value (PT failure)
• Overcurrent
• Volts per Hertz
• Loss of excitation
• Rotor temperature
• Rotating diode failure (add. hardware required)
IARV / UNF11 E
CHIND / 612