A new generator static excitation system using boost-buck chopper

A new generator excitation system using a boost-buck chopper as a kind of static exciter is proposed to overcome the lack of field forcing capability of the bus fed exciter under the input line fault condition. It increases or maintains the generator field current by boosting the field voltage in the case of the input AC line voltage drop during and immediately after a fault. The validity of the proposed excitation system is verified with the computer simulation. The generator stability according to different exciters is tested using a commercial software package-CYME. The simulation results of the stability analysis on the generator with the proposed exciter is better than that of the bus fed exciter. This boost-buck chopper exciter can be simply implemented and controlled by the modern power electronics technology.