Time-Stepping Finite-Element Analysis of a 14-MVA Salient-Pole Shipboard Alternator for Different Damper Winding Design Solutions

Salient-pole synchronous machines are conventional electric machines which have been widely used and studied over decades. Some aspects of their modeling and analysis, however, still constitute a challenge for designers and require state-of-the-art methodologies to be applied. As an example, this paper addresses a 14-MVA salient-pole shipboard alternator, of which full-scale prototypes are built and tested with different damper cage designs. A time-stepping finite-element (FE) analysis is assessed against test results as a method to predict generator performance for the various damper cage design alternatives. FE simulations are shown to give accurate results even without model tuning if continuous end rings are used to short circuit damper bars. For the design solution with partial end arcs, model tuning is required, instead. For this purpose, a calibration method is proposed and successfully validated, which only requires a set of impedance measurements to be taken on the machine at standstill.

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