Report Section 3: Discussion of 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-02-discussion-of-recommendations |
| Location | PDF pages 12-16, lines 721-1138 |
| Status | pdf-text-extracted-candidate |
| Word Count | 1622 |
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| Quote Candidates In Section | 3 |
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Section titled “Opening Source Excerpt”Discussion of Recommendations While recommendations 1) to 3) should greatly reduce the frequency of troubles or keep them out of the generating system by isolating or localizing them by the feeder reactors, it obviously is not possible to absolutely guard against the occasional troubles in the generating sys- tem, such as short circuits. But as soon as the trouble is cleared as by the opening of the circuit breakers, in a second or a few seconds, the system should immediately return to normal, and to begin to pick up again the load which the short circuit dropped. The most serious feature of the troubles of September 18th, May 19th, and October 22nd, in my opinion, was that with the clearing of the short circuit, the sys- [[END_PDF_PAGE:12]] [[PDF_PAGE:13]] Report of Charles P. Steinmetz tern didSource-Located Theme Snippets
Section titled “Source-Located Theme Snippets”Radiation / light
Section titled “Radiation / light”Discussion of Recommendations While recommendations 1) to 3) should greatly reduce the frequency of troubles or keep them out of the generating system by isolating or localizing them by the feeder reactors, it obviously is not possible to absolutely guard against the occasional troubles in the generating sys- tem, such as short circuits. But as soon as the trouble is cleare ...Ether references
Section titled “Ether references”... rt circuit at the busbars dropping out the synchronous machines in the substations while full steam supply is still on, the synchronizing power coming over the power limiting reactor is insufficient to hold the station in step, and the station breaks synchronism and speeds up. Whether synchronous operation is preserved or synchronism broken, depends on the relative speed, with which the synchronous machines in the substations drop out, the turbine governors shut off steam and the alternators speed up. The synchronous machines in the substations, carrying load ...Field language
Section titled “Field language”... tz ample synchronizing power, at full voltage, to keep the station section in synchronism with the rest of the system, even at no load but full steam supply, so that it could break out of synchronism only if the short circuit lasts sufficiently long to demagnetize the alternator fields and thereby drop the voltage. Therefore it is recommended to tie all the stations by power limiting reactors into ring connection. If a short circuit occurs at or near the busbars of a station section, it necessarily drops the busbar voltage to zero. It takes, however, a number ...Magnetism
Section titled “Magnetism”... urs at or near the busbars of a station section, it necessarily drops the busbar voltage to zero. It takes, however, a number of seconds for the short circuit current to demagnetize the alternator fields, and if therefore the short circuit is opened quickly, the alternator field magnetism is still there, at least partly, and the station voltage thus comes back instantly, at least partly. If then the station section has sufficient synchronizing power against the adjacent section, it is probable that it would remain in synchronism, no further trouble would occur, a ...Chapter-Local Concept Hits
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