The article presents a new method of counteracting shaft voltages and currents in AC electrical machines. It is based on the use of an auxiliary winding located in the stator of the machine. The design of a test stand adapted to the measurement of shaft voltages of the machine, based on the prototype of a synchronous machine with permanent magnets, has been presented. The model was used to conduct a number of laboratory tests aimed at confirming the functionality of the auxiliary winding in various operating states of the machine (including no-load and load condition during generator operation). The article focuses on demonstrating the beneficial effect of the auxiliary winding on the level of induced shaft voltages in an electric machine. In order to confirm the close dependence of the circular flux in the stator yoke on the shaft voltage, shaft voltage measurement results for various cases of external power supply of auxiliary winding forcing a circular flux are presented. Regardless of the laboratory tests, a simulation model of a synchronous machine with permanent magnets, on which calculations were carried out to analyze the work of the auxiliary winding located in the stator yoke, was developed. The article is supplemented by a review of damage to electrical machines with a detailed description of bearing defects, as well as a brief de-scription of issues related to the mechanism of generating shaft voltages and currents in electrical machines and methods of counteracting them.

The presented article concerns issues related to the diagnostics of the technical condition of the insulation of electrical machines. It discusses the importance of the operational supervision, maintenance and diagnostics of electrical machine insulation systems. The structure of the insulation system is presented and known solutions for making winding insulation are described. The negative impact of conditions and various exposures on the technical condition of the insulation system is described. Special attention is focused on the review of available diagnostic methods for insulating systems of electrical machines. These methods have been arranged in a systematic order according to the type of tests to be carried out.

The aim of the article is to present a new idea of limiting the bearing voltage in electric machines with permanent magnets through the use of a shielding winding placed in stator slot wedges. The first part of the article is dedicated to the mechanisms of generating bearing voltages when the machine is supplied from the mains and from a power electronic converter. Additionally, some methods of counteracting these phenomena were described. Next, multivariant simulation tests were carried out based on the two-dimensional field model of a synchronous machine with permanent magnets. The tests were run in order to determine the internal capacitances of the machine, on which the level of bearing voltages depends. Based on these results, the optimal variant of the design solution ensuring the limitation of the bearing voltage to a safe level was selected. Using the model of a two-level converter and based on the equivalent diagram of the internal capacitances of the machine, the influence of the proposed shielding winding on the bearing voltage was estimated.

The paper presents a description of the method and the results of calculating the leakage reactance of high-power synchronous generator end windings using the finite element method. This reactance is one of the components of the stator leakage reactance of synchronous generators. The calculations were carried out under the assumption of a three-dimensional field distribution in a synchronous generator. The thus calculated value of the leakage reactance of the end windings was compared with the calculation results obtained using traditional, analytical formulas known from the literature. The analysis of the influence of the reactance value of the end windings on the transient waveforms at a three-phase short-circuit of the stator windings was performed based on a two-dimensional field-circuit model.

The paper presents the two-dimensional, field-circuit model of a high power synchronous generator verified by measurements. The model enables determining the waveforms of electromagnetic quantities in steady and transient states. Verification of the model was based on comparison of the measured and calculated waveforms after a disturbance in the voltage regulation system of a TWW-200-2 generator operating in Połaniec Power Plant. There are also presented the field methods for determining electromagnetic parameters (synchronous reactances and time constants) when using the distributions of static and quasi-static, magnetic and electromagnetic fields calculated by the finite element method (FEM). The set of these parameters was used as the starting parameters of the optimization algorithm for estimation of electromagnetic parameters of the synchronous generator circuit model. The dynamic waveforms under the generator load conditions calculated by the finite element method are the basis of parameter estimation. The parameter estimation of the generator model was performed with the use of the least squares method.