Electrical Power Generator Design: A Review
Awarun OA and Aziaka DS*
ABSTRACT
Generators are the heart of electric power production. A well-designed generator ensures contin-uous, stable, and reliable power output, including reliability of power utilization. This paper pro-vides an over view of the design and selection techniques of an electrical power generator pow-ered by a heavy industrial gas turbine engine. Extensive analysis is emphasized with a view on the general design theories in existence and also the types of generators that have been used in past years. Synchronization of the electrical generator with the prime mover are of different kinds depending on the power requirement and purpose, this is a major design focus and is duly ana-lyzed in this paper. This design specifically provides for a power plant that has a synchronized 100MW gas turbine engine and a 100MW generator that would be running on base load hence the requirement of the generator to match the power delivered by the prime mover as well as the necessary parts and systems that must be in place for the proper operation are provided. This pa-per provides design techniques used with the gas turbine background
