An innovative inductive air-gap monitoring for large low speed hydro-generators

Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Electrical Machines, ICEM'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Simond, Jean Jacques ^a   Xuan, Mai Tu ^a   Wetter, Roland ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR GAPS; ASSEMBLY PROCESS; DIAMETER RATIOS; HYDRO-GENERATORS; LOW SPEED; SAFE OPERATIONS; UNBALANCED MAGNETIC PULLS; UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS;

STATORS;

EID: 65249169440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICELMACH.2008.4799905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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