Methods and systems for monitoring excitation of a generator based on a faulty status of a generator breaker

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8964337-B2
Application number	US-201213729885-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2012
Priority date	Dec 28, 2012
Publication date	Feb 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015

Abstract

Systems and methods for monitoring excitation of a generator based on a faulty status of a generator breaker are provided. According to one embodiment, a system may include a controller and a processor communicatively coupled to the controller. The processor may be configured to receive, from a contact associated with a generator breaker, a reported status of the generator breaker, receive operational data associated with one or more parameters of a generator associated with the generator breaker, and correlate the reported status of the generator breaker and the operational data. Based on the correlation, the processor may establish an actual status of the generator breaker, and, based on the actual status, selectively modify a mode of excitation of the generator.

First claim

That which is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, from a contact associated with a generator breaker, a reported status of the generator breaker;
receiving operational data associated with one or more parameters of a generator associated with the generator breaker;
correlating the reported status of the generator and the operational data;
establishing an actual status of the generator breaker based at least in part on the correlation; and
based at least in part…

Assignees

• Gen Electric

Inventors

• Sharma Abhinandan
• Nibhanupudi Shashidhar
• Nedunsezian Sridhar

Classifications

• H02H7/06 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H02H7/065 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic