FOREWORD The operation and maintenance of Thermal Power Plants is the most vital area for the achievement of high availability/more utilisation of the installed capacity in the country. Electrical equipments form the back-bone of Thermal Power Stations. Operation and Maintenance of these equipments require not only thorough understanding but also attention due fo sophisticated nature of these equipments. Itis, therefore, important that knowledge in a simple and systematic form is made available to the personnef of all tevels in a Power Station and its application is ensured for the optimum results. Power Engineers Training Society (PETS) is bringing out a manual on "Generator and Electrical Plant" as a part of Power Plant familiarisation series, This volume-"Generator & Electrical Plant’ is fourth in the Power Plant familiarisation series and has been prepared as a general text for Graduate Engineer trainees as well as reference material on Generator and other Electrical Equipments of Thermal Power Station. Reference of 210 MW and SOOMW (KWU Machines) Generator and their related system have generally been made as these are dominating the Indian Power scenario. This will help the power sector personnel jn understanding the equipments and also give them an idea as how to react in abnormal situations that can arise in actual practice. The related equipments like generator auxiliaries, its cooling and sealing, and different excitation systems applicable to the different machines installedin our country, auxiliary supply system, ‘switchgear and their diferent layouts for sub-station/switchyard, transformers, motors, power cables and DC supply system etc, have been dealt in detail with relevant diagrams which makes the subject simple and interesting. it is hoped that the manval will be useful for the trainees, trainers and also for powerplant engineers. Suggestions are welcome for improvement of this manual. (V.K. MUTREJA) NEW DELHI Director General AUGUST, 19928.No. PPF VOL. IV GENERATOR & ELECTRICAL PLANT CONTENTS Subject Generator Excitation System & AVR Cooling of Turbo Generator T.G. Shatt Seal System ‘Auxiliary Supply for Thermal Power Station Switchgear Transformer Power Cables D.C. Supply System Page No. 18 32 46 55 63 89 107 110