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Title: Design of an optimal robust governor for hydraulic turbine generating units

Journal Article · · IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/60.372586· OSTI ID:40296
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  1. Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (Canada). Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Design and analysis of a hydraulic turbine generator governor using optimal robust control methodology are presented. The approach is unique in the sense that the nonlinear characteristics of the turbine are first modeled as multiplicative uncertainties, and an optimal robust governor is designed by taking into account such uncertainties explicitly. The advantage of this approach is that the designed governor will guarantee the stability and the performance of the speed control loop for the entire turbine operating range. The performance of the new governor is shown to be superior to that of the conventional PID controller during large load disturbances. The resulting governor is only a third order. Hence, it has the same level of complexity as any other electrical-hydraulic governor in use today.

OSTI ID:
40296
Report Number(s):
CONF-940702-; ISSN 0885-8969; TRN: IM9520%%491
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 10, Issue 1; Conference: 1994 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers/Power Engineering Society (IEEE/PES) summer meeting, San Francisco, CA (United States), 24-28 Jul 1994; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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