Cross-Identification of Synchronous Generator Parameters From RTDR Test Time-Domain Analytical Responses

In a recent work, the authors computed generator parameters from a load-rejection test based on what they called hybrid state model of the synchronous machine. The state matrices were presented in compact numerical form and may prove tedious to implement. Such a model is a complicated function of the unknown machine parameter vector to be computed which is not always easy to comprehend in an identification process for engineering applications. In this paper, therefore, the decoupled property of the so-called hybrid model along with the application of the complete well-known solution of the linear control systems theory is used to derive time-variant analytical waveforms of the phase voltages and the field current following a generator tripping (load rejection) and an open stator field short-circuit tests in terms of the generator parameters. In the cross-identification approach, the field short-circuit test is used to compute the generator d-axis parameters while the q-axis parameters are obtained from the load-rejection test q-axis data. The proposed identification technique is successfully applied for the parameter identification of a 4-pole 1.5-kVA, 208-V, and 60-Hz saturated laboratory synchronous generator.