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    Why Generators in Star

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    1) Generator armature windings are always connected in a star configuration rather than a delta configuration because a star connection allows for the creation of a rotating magnetic field with phase currents displaced 120 degrees in both space and time. 2) A key advantage of the star connection is that it provides a neutral point, which is important for stability. It allows circulating currents to flow during unbalanced loads and provides a path for zero sequence currents during faults. 3) The star connection also reduces insulation requirements and the number of turns needed compared to a delta connection, providing technical and economic benefits for generator design and operation.

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    1) Generator armature windings are always connected in a star configuration rather than a delta configuration because a star connection allows for the creation of a rotating magnetic field with phase currents displaced 120 degrees in both space and time. 2) A key advantage of the star connection is that it provides a neutral point, which is important for stability. It allows circulating currents to flow during unbalanced loads and provides a path for zero sequence currents during faults. 3) The star connection also reduces insulation requirements and the number of turns needed compared to a delta connection, providing technical and economic benefits for generator design and operation.

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    1) Generator armature windings are always connected in a star configuration rather than a delta configuration because a star connection allows for the creation of a rotating magnetic field with phase currents displaced 120 degrees in both space and time. 2) A key advantage of the star connection is that it provides a neutral point, which is important for stability. It allows circulating currents to flow during unbalanced loads and provides a path for zero sequence currents during faults. 3) The star connection also reduces insulation requirements and the number of turns needed compared to a delta connection, providing technical and economic benefits for generator design and operation.

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    1) Generator armature windings are always connected in a star configuration rather than a delta configuration because a star connection allows for the creation of a rotating magnetic field with phase currents displaced 120 degrees in both space and time. 2) A key advantage of the star connection is that it provides a neutral point, which is important for stability. It allows circulating currents to flow during unbalanced loads and provides a path for zero sequence currents during faults. 3) The star connection also reduces insulation requirements and the number of turns needed compared to a delta connection, providing technical and economic benefits for generator design and operation.

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    Why Generator Armature

    Winding Connected in STAR


    not in DELTA?
    electricalbaba.com
    1 min read

    A
    lternator or generator armature winding is always con-
    nected in STAR not in DELTA. We know that rotating mag-
    netic filed in the air gap can only be created if the phase
    winding and phase currents are 120º displaced from each other in the
    space and time respectively. This can be achieved either in star con-
    nection or delta connection armature winding in the alternator. But
    star connection is always preferred over the delta connection due to
    its advantages.

    Advantage of STAR Connection of Generator Armature


    Winding:

    Generator Armature Winding is connected in STAR to achieve tech-


    nical and economical advantages. Following are some of the
    advantages:
    1) STAR connection provides a neutral point. This neutral point is
    very important from the stability point of view of generator. Gener-
    ally, the neutral point is grounded through NGR (Neutral Grounding
    Resistor). Neutral grounding provides a path for the flow of circulat-
    ing current during the unbalanced loading condition of generator. In
    addition to this, it also provides a path for the flow of zero sequence
    current during the single line to ground fault / double line to ground
    fault. Furthermore, grounding of neutral point maintains the voltage
    of healthy phase to the normal phase voltage.

    If there were no neutral, the voltage of the healthy phases would have
    been increased during the ground fault, which may eventually lead to
    insulation failure of the healthy phases. Thus a single line to ground
    fault may result in three phase fault due to insulation failure.

    Also, the grounding of neutral through NGR limits the value of fault
    current and hence damage to the stator armature winding.

    2) The insulation requirement in STAR connection is less. Since phase


    voltage is 1/√3 times i.e. 57.7% (100 / √3 = 57.7%) of the line voltage,
    therefore the insulation requirement of phase winding reduces. This
    is a great advantage from economic point of view.

    Since the generated emf in phase winding,

    Ef = √2πfNØ
    where N = Number of turns

    3) In STAR connection Phase voltage = Line Voltage / √3, whereas


    phase voltage = line voltage in DELTA connection. Therefore for gen-
    erating the same line voltage, the requirement of number of turns in
    STAR connection of armature winding will be less as compared to
    DELTA connection.

    4) STAR connection eliminates the triplen harmonics in the generated


    terminal voltage of generator armature winding. Read “How Harmon-
    ics Eliminated from Alternator Generated Voltage?” to know the rea-
    son.

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