Published: 02.07.2022
A engine-generator (a M-G set ) is a device for converting electricity to another shape. Motor and generator sets are used to convert the frequency,the < font> voltage o the phase of power. They can also be used to isolate electrical arges from the electrical power line, dc generator type welding set consists of which type of motor. Large motor generators were widely used to convert industrial amounts of power, while e smaller motor generators (like the one pictured) were used to convert power from the battery at higher DC voltages.
While an engine-generator set may consist of several coued engine-generator maines, a single dynamo (for < font> dynamo - motor) has the motor coils and the generator coils wound around a single rotor; so Therefore, both the motor and generator share the same external field magnets or coils. [1 ] Motor windings are typically driven from a commutator at one end of the shaft, while generator windings provide output to another swit at the other end of the shaft. The entire rotor and shaft assembly is smaller, lighter, and eaper than a pair of maines, and does not require exposed drive shafts.
Low power consuming devices su as vehicle radio receivers with vacuum tubes, did not use expensive, noisy and bulky generator engines. Instead, used a circuit inverter consisting of a vibrator (a self-exciting relay) and a transformer to produce the higher voltages needed for the vehicle's 6V or 12V battery vacuum tubes. [2]
In the context of the generation of electric power and large fixed electrical power systems, a motor-generator consists of a electric motor meanically coued to a electric generator (o alternator ). The motor runs on the electrical input current while the generator creates the electrical output current, with power flowing between the two maines as a torque meanical ; this provides electrical insulation and some cushions tion of energy between the two electrical systems.
One use is to remove spikes and variations in "dirty power" ( power conditioning ) or provide phase mating between different electrical systems.
Another use is to buffer extreme loads on the power system. For exame, fusion devices tokamak impose very large peak loads, but relatively low average loads on the mains power. The tokamak DIII -D en General Atomics,the Princeton Large Torus (PLT) at the Laboratory Princeton Plasma Physics and the Nimro synrotron d at the Rutherford Apeton Laboratory used large flywheels on multie motor-generator atforms to level the load imposed on the electrical system. system: motor side slowly accelerated a large flywheel to store energy,whi was rapidly consumed during a fusion experiment when the generator side acted as a brake on the steering wheel. Similarly, the next generation Electromagnetic Aircraft Laun System (EMALS) of the US Navy aircraft carrier. will use a flywheel motor-generator atform to instantly supy power for aircraft launes at a capacity greater than that of the generator installed on the ship.