A novel air-gap monitoring system for large low speed hydro-generators

2006 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, PES

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Xuan, M Tu ^b   Simond, J J ^a,b   Wetter, R ^b   Keller, S ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air gap monitoring; Eccentricity; Hydro generator; Unbalanced magnetic pull

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; ROTORS; SENSORS;

AIR-GAP MONITORING; HYDRO-GENERATOR; UNBALANCED MAGNETIC PULL;

SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS;

EID: 35348847740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/pes.2006.1708867     Document Type: Conference Paper

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