• DocumentCode
    448528
  • Title

    A few questions about using the evaporative cooling method as the substitute for the water-cooling method in the three Gorges´ hydro-generator

  • Author

    Guobiao, Gu ; Lin, Ruan

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Electr. Eng., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    27-29 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    7
  • Abstract
    So far as the theory, there is no problem that the evaporative cooling technology can be applied to the three Gorges´ hydro-generators. In order to validate this technology can substitute the cooling method in engineering application and get the actual operational effect, the China Three Gorges Project Corp (CTGPC) planned to make one set inner water-cooling hydro-generator installed on the left bank of the dam altered to the evaporative cooling hydro-generator. Under the precondition of not changing the main structure and maintain the primary electromagnetic design blue print, substituting the evaporative cooling method for the inner water-cooling method need to solve some key theoretic and structural problems. This paper firstly states these existing problems; through theoretic analysis and experimental research, we put forward the corresponding solving methods. Replacing the inner water-cooling method with evaporative cooling method will not only keep the advantages of inner water-cooling, but also largely improve the reliability of the hydro-generator, which will benefit to the stability of power transmission and the power supply across the grid.
  • Keywords
    cooling; hydroelectric generators; reliability; China Three Gorges Project Corp; evaporative cooling method; hydro-generator reliability; inner water-cooling method; power supply stability; power transmission stability; three Gorges hydro-generator; water-cooling method; Conducting materials; Cooling; Copper; Heat transfer; Insulation; Pumps; Stators; Temperature; Thermal stresses; Water heating; Three Gorges; evaporative cooling technology; hydro-generator;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electrical Machines and Systems, 2005. ICEMS 2005. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    7-5062-7407-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEMS.2005.202474
  • Filename
    1574707