Equipment and Systems - Automatic Voltage Regulators

Electro Technical Officers and Marine Engineers onboard commercial ships and those undergoing training to qualify for these positions, will find this book useful.

Besides technical information, relevant extracts from SOLAS Regulations, IACS Guidelines, Lloyd’s Register and American Bureau of Shipping Rules, have been included with permission. However, these extracts must be used only for academic purposes.

Relevant documents that are in force and issued to ships and related organisations must be referred to, for complying with Classification Societies’ Guidelines and other Statutory Requirements.

1. Performance Requirements of Alternators Operating
2. Principle of an AVR
3. Exciters and Excitation Systems
4. Thyristor-based Static Automatic Voltage Regulator
5. Alternative Thyristor-based AVR Circuits
6. Transformer-based Static Excitation System
7. Transient Voltage Dip and Alternator Response
8. Effect of kW Loading
9. Effect of kVAr Loading
10. Additional (Important) Features in a Modern AVR
11. Relevant ABS Rules