General Electric Company

Donald R Albright

James B Archibald

Harold Copeland Sanderson

William D Jones

Henry F Sage

Doran W Nelson

A device for monitoring the leakage of cooling gas into the stator water cooling system is disclosed. The vent from the water cooling reservoir tank is connected to the inlet of a U-shaped passageway and the outlet of the passageway is connected to an atmospheric vent. A liquid is provided in the passageway so as to prevent the passage of cooling gas from the inlet to the outlet without a desired pressure differential. At the specified pressure differential however, gas bubbles from one side of the passageway to the other and is trapped by a measuring cup in one position. When a sufficient quantity of gas is passed under the cup, the buoyancy of the cup becomes positive allowing it to rise to a second position where at least a portion of the gas is discharged. Because the amount of gas discharged can be determined and a number of cycles of operation of the cup can be measured, the flowrate can be precisely measured. Appropriate electronic circuitry processes the electronic indications of cup operation to provide an electronic flowrate indication, an alarm indication should the flowrate exceed a predetermined amount and conditioning for computer storage and processing of flowrate information in preferred embodiments.

Water cooled stator winding leak detector

A generator air-gap flux probe for determining rate of change of flux density includes a resilient support spanning the air gap between the stator and the rotor of a dynamoelectric machine to support radial and/or tangential flux coils stably within a short distance of the rotor. The resilient support permits the portion of the flux probe spanning the air gap to deflect substantially during assembly or disassembly of the machine thereby to permit permanent installation of the air-gap flux probe. In one embodiment adapted to longer air gaps, the flux probe is mounted on a pedestal block installed on a dovetail slot wedge in the stator. This reduces the cantilevered distance which the flux probe must span. A tangential flux coil axis stripe marking the axis of the tangential flux coil aids in alignment.

Generator air-gap flux probe for detecting shorted rotor turns

A stator for a dynamoelectric machine preferably comprises a stack of modular sections, each modular section comprising an outer metallic cylinder formed from a plurality of metallic laminations arranged in a plurality of layers. Furthermore, the stator module comprises an inner nonmetallic cylinder formed from nonmetallic laminations having inwardly projecting teeth so as to define a plurality of slots along the inner circumference of the modular sections, the nonmetallic laminations being adhesively bonded to the outer metallic laminations. The stator modules of the present invention may be incorporated either in a conventional air-gap winding generator or employed in a superconducting rotor generator exhibiting high magnetic flux in the air-gap region between the rotor and the stator.

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Scotia, NY, United States of America

Donald R Albright