Report Section 2: Recommendations
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Section titled “Source Metadata”| Field | Value |
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| Source | Investigation of Some Trouble in the Generating System of the Commonwealth Edison Co. |
| Year | 1919 |
| Section ID | commonwealth-edison-generating-system-trouble-section-01-recommendations |
| Location | PDF pages 7-12, lines 145-720 |
| Status | pdf-text-extracted-candidate |
| Word Count | 2384 |
| Equation Candidates In Section | 0 |
| Figure Candidates In Section | 0 |
| Quote Candidates In Section | 0 |
Opening Source Excerpt
Section titled “Opening Source Excerpt”RECOMMENDATIONS From the investigation, the following recommendations appear to me justified: 1.) To reduce the liability of trouble, by carefully going over all the controlling devices, such as relays, current transformers, circuit breaker-operating mechanisms, etc., especially those at or near the gen- erating stations to ascertain whether they are in perfect condition and whether they are of the most reliable and safest type now available, and where necessary replace them or change them to the safest and most reliable now available for the existing conditions of operation. It must be expected, that during the time which many of the controlling devices have been in operation in the system, advances have been made in type and design of circuit controlling devices. The conditions of operation have become more severe, due to the increase of the sizeSource-Located Theme Snippets
Section titled “Source-Located Theme Snippets”Ether references
Section titled “Ether references”... mmendations appear to me justified: 1.) To reduce the liability of trouble, by carefully going over all the controlling devices, such as relays, current transformers, circuit breaker-operating mechanisms, etc., especially those at or near the gen- erating stations to ascertain whether they are in perfect condition and whether they are of the most reliable and safest type now available, and where necessary replace them or change them to the safest and most reliable now available for the existing conditions of operation. It must be expected, that during the tim ...Impedance / reactance
Section titled “Impedance / reactance”... peak loads of the day, when the cables are at their maximum tempera- tures. I understand that simple devices for getting high voltage direct current for testing purposes have been developed. 3.) To cut off the troubles from the generating stations by the in- stallation of feeder reactances. By far the largest majority of troubles leading to short circuit occur in the feeder cables and beyond them, in the substations, but very few only in the generators, and extremely few on the busbars. The gen- erators have power limiting reactors, but no power limiting reactors ...Radiation / light
Section titled “Radiation / light”... w reactances, two at the Northwest Station, one at Fisk A, and one at Fisk B, for the interconnection with the Northwest Station. Each of the reactors then would be about .875 ohms (half the size of the present power limiting busbar reactors) . Such an arrangement may require a slight increase of excitation of the synchronous converters in the substations connected to these tie cables, to keep their voltage by giving the current a slight lead. Another possibility, which might be more convenient, would be to install normal feeder reactors at each end of each o ...Transients / damping
Section titled “Transients / damping”... should thus be investigated. Similar results are given by grouping in pairs of identical cables with differential relays between them. This latter arrangement perhaps is somewhat less sensitive and reliable, since with two separate cables, no matter how identical they may be, a transient may occur in the one and not or a different transient in the other, and the sensitivity of the differential relay thus probably has to be lowered not to be affected by transients. On the other hand, the latter arrangement would not require such extensive replacement of cables. S ...Chapter-Local Concept Hits
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| Circuit breaker | 3 | pdf-text-extracted-candidate |
| Power limiting reactor | 2 | pdf-text-extracted-candidate |
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| Current transformer | 1 | pdf-text-extracted-candidate |
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| synchronous apparatus | 4 | pdf-text-extracted-candidate |
| tie cable | 4 | pdf-text-extracted-candidate |
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| feeder reactance | 2 | pdf-text-extracted-candidate |
| power limiting reactor | 2 | pdf-text-extracted-candidate |
| synchronizing power | 2 | pdf-text-extracted-candidate |
| busbar reactance | 1 | pdf-text-extracted-candidate |
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