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Industrial Solutions

ALSPA ControGen HX
® ™

Generator Control and Excitation System

Innovative solutions and technology to increase efficiency, using

Seamless integration
Taking advantage of its in-depth
knowledge of the power plant processes,
Automation and Controls, a part of
GE’s Industrial Solutions business,
has developed a comprehensive
control and instrumentation system,
providing modern operating control for
power plants: ALSPA®.
ALSPA ControGen™ HX is GE’s latest
excitation system for the control of all
kinds of synchronous generators up to
10,000 Amps field current. It offers a wide
variety of innovative solutions to maximize
the efficiency of the power plant, as well
as customized solutions to meet your
specific requirements.
It shares common technologies with steam
and gas turbine governors and distributed
control systems for seamless integration.
High performance setup ALSPA ControGen HX is part of the GE Adaptive PSS
excitation systems family. It is designed
Part of the ALSPA product line, to control medium and large generators. Integration of a huge amount of volatile
the ControGen HX belongs to the The ALSPA ControGen HX takes renewables (solar photovoltaic, wind)
automatic voltage regulator (AVR) advantage from over 45 years of know- in power networks is becoming a great
family used on heavy machine control how and proven experience in design and challenge for grid operators and has
equipment. It is designed to manage manufacturing of excitation systems. an important impact in the working
all types of excitation systems (static, conditions of the conventional installed
brushless, AC&DC exciters) and can Standard functions base. Also, power system operation is
be applied to any power generation • fully digital control loops (current characterized by a wide range of operating
application (steam, nuclear, hydraulic, and voltage) based on a powerful conditions, random load changes and
diesel and gas), from small units to microprocessor allowing fast cycle various unpredictable disturbances.
large production machines requiring time treatment Conventional PSS are designed to have
complex controls. fixed parameters derived from a linearized
• voltage, power factor, reactive power
High performance regulation modes model around a certain operating point
ALSPA ControGen HX offers a large and thus cannot address important
• embedded power system stabilizer
selection of advanced functions to changes in the network. GE’s adaptive
PSS2A/2B according to IEEE
improve the performance of the entire PSS tracks those network changes and
recommendation standard 421.2 & 421.5
system (conventional PSS2A/2B, adapts the PSS parameters accordingly.
• limitations: Whenever the network is changing,
advanced adaptive PSS, secondary voltage
regulation capabilities..). Taking advantage - stator current GE adaptive PSS is efficient.
of our emulation capacities to simulate the - over-excitation (ceiling, steady state)
overall working conditions of the power
- under excitation (leading VAR limit)
plant, ALSPA ControGen HX can be set to
reach the most accurate performances. - voltage/frequency control (U/F)
Enhanced reliability • fully compliant with the ALSPA Plant
Integrator concept FPO
The scalable redundancy of the
controllers, power supplies, pulse • rotating diode monitoring
generating devices, and power bridges Advanced functions
makes the system tolerant to internal or
• generator electrical braking
external failures and ensures continuous Conventional PSS 2A/2B answer on grid changes
operation under all circumstances. • excitation boosting (brushless exciter)
Wide open • wide open to communications and can
be controlled from distributed control
ALSPA ControGen HX is designed to
system, dedicated operator station,
communicate with a large range of
local operator terminal or from
distributed control systems (DCS) as well
conventional panels FPO
as dedicated operator stations and local
operator terminals. • current sharing capabilities for multi
parallel power bridges
ALSPA ControGen HX is fully integrated
in the ALSPA family and can be easily • adaptive power system stabilizer (PSS)
integrated with all ALSPA plant • field flashing control Adaptive PSS answer on grid changes
automation solutions as part of the
GE Plant Integrator™ concept. • bump-less transfer at controller and
rectifier level
• secondary voltage regulation capabilities
• high performing desensitized
voltage regulation

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