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exciter), a rotary rectifier and a permanent magnet sub-exciter; all are directly coupled with the rotor shaft and located on the same center line with it. In this system, the output of the rotating armature­type AC exciter is converted into direct current by the rotating rectifier, and the current is fed into the rotating field magnet coils of the main generator. Since sliding contacts such as slip rings or brushes are not necessary for this system, it has excellent maintainability.

  1. Voltage regulator

An automatic voltage regulator (AVR) maintains the generator output voltage at a constant value. Recently, semiconductor voltage regulators have been employed to improve the reliability of voltage regulating systems. Furthermore, a two-fold voltage regulator design, or a redundant voltage regulator

design is usually applied to nuclear plant main generators to further enhance the system reliability.

  1. Major Transformers and Transmission System

(1) Major transformers

A main transformer, an auxiliary transformer, a start-up transformer and an emergency transformer are the major transformers in NPP electrical systems.

  1. Main transformer

The main transformer steps up the generator output voltage before transmitting it to a grid. The design capacity of the main transformer is roughly the same as the generator capacity less the auxiliary transformer capacity.

  1. Auxiliary transformer

Figure 3.10.2 Brushless excitation concept

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The auxiliary transformer provides electric power for various plant components during the plant normal operation.

  1. Start-up transformer

The start-up transformer supplies electric power to various plant components

during the plant start-up and shutdown operations. It also shares part of the plant in­house loads during the plant normal operation.

  1. Emergency transformer

The emergency transformer serves as a backup for the start-up transformer.

  1. Generator load break switch (glbs)

Owing to recent technological developments, practical use of large electric load break switches have been begun in power plants. A GLBS is installed in the line between the main generator and the main transformer to cut off or connect the line. When the generator output is zero, as during the plant start-up or shutdown operation, the generator is isolated from the main transformer by opening the GLBS, so that the auxiliary transformer can directly receive power from the grid via the main transformer. Plants with the GLBSs do not need a start-up transformer and its associated electric circuits.

Two systems are compared in Figure 3.10.3, one has the start-up transformer and the other, the GLBS.

  1. Switchyard

The switchyard in a NPP serves as a relay base to transmit electric power generated in the plant to an electric power transmission grid. Gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) with transmission terminal voltage of 500kV has come to be in common use in recent plants. The switchyard is connected to the grid with at least two transmission lines in accordance with government regulations.

The switchyard bus of the NPP is commonly arranged in one of the two arrangements shown in Figure 3.10.4.

  1. Plant Auxiliary Power Supply

Systems

(1) Plant auxiliary electrical system

The one-line diagram of a recent GLBS-equipped plant is shown in Figure 3.10.5. Even in the plant design that employs a start-up transformer, electrical loads connected to buses are basically the same as those shown in Figure 3.10.5, except for loads unique to the plant. During the plant normal operation, the main generator supplies power, and during the plant start-up and shutdown operations, the main transmission lines supply power to plant auxiliary components. The main transmission lines also supply power to necessary loads after unit trips caused by incidents including postulated accidents. If the main transmission lines are lost, the power is supplied via the emergency transmission line, and moreover, if the emergency transmission line is lost, the power is supplied from on-site emergency diesel generators to the equipment which must be operated to safely shut down the reactor.

The 6.6-kV high voltage buses of the plant electrical power distribution system consist of normal buses that supply power to the equipment necessary for the plant normal operation, and two emergency buses that supply power to the equipment essential for the plant safety including the engineered safeguard systems. The emergency buses are designed to have redundant buses physically isolated from each other, so that, even if one bus fails, the remaining bus is capable of supplying electrical power to equipment necessary to safely shut down the reactor.

(2) Emergency diesel generators

Even if both of the off-site power sources, main transmission lines and emergency transmission lines, are lost, two emergency diesel generators supply the electrical power to equipment needed to safely shut down the reactor and to maintain the security of the plant. The emergency diesel generators also supply electrical power to the engineered safeguard systems.

Each of the two full-capacity emergency diesel generators, physically isolated from each other, is connected to one of the two high voltage emergency buses.

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