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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 1990
Filed:
Aug. 09, 1988
Akira Bando, Hitachi, JP;
Osamu Nagura, Katsuta, JP;
Keiji Saito, Hitachi, JP;
Ikuro Miyashita, Hitachi, JP;
Hashime Nagai, Kitaibaraki, JP;
Hiroto Nakagawa, Osaka, JP;
Yasuteru Oono, Kobe, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A generator-motor apparatus with economical protection measures for use in a variable speed pumping-up electric power plant, having a main transformer, a secondary winding of which is coupled to an electric power system, a power system breaker connected to a primary winding of the main transformer, a syncronizing breaker connected in series with the power system breaker, a generator-motor, a rotor of which is mechanically coupled to the pump-turbine and an armature winding of which is connected to the power system through the synchronizing breaker, the power system breaker and the main transformer, and an excitation circuit, including a frequency converter for supplying a field winding of the generator-motor with AC voltage of the variable frequency and a converter transformer for feeding the converter, which is branched from a junction of the power system breaker and the synchronizing breaker.