UNITROL® 5000 Standard Program Functions

MONITORING AND PROTECTION

• Thyristor conduction monitoring

• Thyristor heatsink temperature
• DC short-circuit
• Field flashing time
• Loss of actual value (PT failure)
• Overcurrent
• Volts per Hertz
• Loss of excitation
• Rotor temperature
• Rotating diode failure (add. hardware required)

IARV / UNF11 E
CHIND / 612
 Monitoring Concept
UNITROL® 5000 (use of redundancy)

•SW supervision per channel •Thyristor

•HW supervision per channel monitoring
•supply monitoring •Air flow
monitoring

•Loss of p.t.

HW /SW

monitoring

•Rotor thermal overload stage 1

•Rotor over temperature stage 1
UNITROL® 5000 Protection Concept (shut down)

•Overflux V/Hz
•Over temperatrure •SW supervision •internal short
•Over load •HW supervision circuit
•internal supply •converter overload

•Rotor earth fault

•Rotor short circuit
•Rotor thermal overload stage 2
•Rotor over Temperature stage 2
•Rotor overvoltage
 Overcurrent Capability and
UNITROL® 5000 Protection Setting

If
(p.u.) n-1 bridges
(n = 2)
n bridges
Rotor (n = 3)
3
1 p.u. = 1'315 A

Induced field current

3ph SC gen. terminals
Current versus time characteristic of
Induced field current
2 converter and settings of protection
3ph SC HV side block transf.
functions for a 48 MVA generator
1.6
Change over
to manual
Trip
If limiter

1
0.1 0.2 10 t (s)
UNITROL® 5000 AVR’s Main Functions

AVR Setpoint
UG, IG -V/Hz limiter PID
- Soft start _
- IQ Compensation
6 6 6
UG - IP Compensation
+

Underexcit. limiter
UG, IG, If -Q=F(P,U,UG)
-Stator current lead
-Min. field current

Overexcit. limiter To pulse

-Max field current generation

Min. / max. value priority

UG, IG, If
-Stator current lag

UG, IG Power System

Stabilizer PSS

Measuring and A/D conversion

PI
Man setpoint _
6
If +
 Intervention in the AVR
UNITROL® 5000 OEL and UEL Limiters

Over excitation PSS

limiter
OEL PID
Parameter set
1,2,3
Under excitation Low
limiter High value
value
6
UEL gate
gate

Parameter set 1 AVR

Parameter set 2
UG 6 IG OEL
IG UEL
P(Q) UEL
AVR set point Parameter set 3
Ie max lim OEL
Ie min lim UEL
 Intervention in the AVR’s
UNITROL® 5000 Set Point Soft Start

UG
If

t
Field Flashing
Reference value ramp up
Normal operation
 Intervention in the AVR’s Set Point
UNITROL® 5000 Reactive and Active Power Droop

UG compensation
UG compensation
Uref Uref
droop droop

-Q +Q +P
Reactive Power Droop Active Power Droop
 Intervention in the AVR’s
UNITROL® 5000 Set Point V/Hz-Limiter

Setting range V/Hz

UG set point
UG max setpoint
UG nominal
UG min set point

Allowed range of operation

f
f nominal
UNITROL® 5000 Super-Imposed Controllers

MUB 1) mainly used in „ Power factor control

industrial plants „ MVAr control
QBUS „ MVAr unload control

PFBUS AVR
6 ´
¶ set point

QGEN

PFGEN

Q control Dis-
Reactive Power
Discharge charge
Power factor
P.F control (0)

BUS 1) set point

Generator
UNITROL® 5000 Transfer Function
Acc. to IEEE 421-5 Type ST1A Potential Source Exciter

from under-excitation from over-excitation UP 

KR
UP  TB1
Limiters UEL Limiters OEL KR TC1 Up+ UT–Kc If

LV + 1+sTC2 1+sTC1 1 Uf [p.u.]

HV 6 KR
Generator UT 1 - Gate 1+sTB2 1+sTB1 1+sTs
Gate
voltage [p.u.] 6 +
1+sTR
+
UST UP  TB1 UP  Up- UT
UT setpoint + + Stabilizing KR TC1 KR
6 signal from PSS
[p.u.]
+ Parameter Description Unit Range
Generator QT 1 TR Measuring filter time constant s 0.020
Reactive KIR Ts Gate control unit and converter time constant s 0.004
Power [p.u.] 1+sTR
KIR Reactive power compensation factor p.u. -0.20...+0.20
KIA active power compensation factor p.u. -0.20...+0.20
KR Steady state gain p.u. 10...1000
Generator PT 1 Kc Voltage drop due to commutation p.u. Acc. Transf.
Active KIA
Power [p.u.] 1+sTR TB1 Controller first lag time constant s TB1tTB2
TB2 Controller second lag time constant s 0<TB2dTC2
TC1 Controller first lead time constant s 0.01...10
TC2 Controller second lead time constant s 0.01...2
Up+ AVR output positive ceiling value p.u. Fixed
Up- AVR output negative ceiling value p.u. Fixed