Saturation effects on the steady-state stability limit of turbine-generators

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-138

  Arjona L, Marco A ^a   Macdonald, D C ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ELÉCTRICAS   (Mexico)

^b IEEE

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC LOADS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TURBOGENERATORS;

SATURATION EFFECTS; STEADY STATE STABILITY;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

EID: 0032662540     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/60.766957     Document Type: Article

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