Electronic synchronisers

Abstract

In the early days of power stations, their design was conceived as an assembly of separate entities, such as boiler plant, turbine plant, coal handling plant and" cooling watersystem. In operation also this division existed; the boiler operator's duty being to produce steam at a given pressure, using coal in bunkers provided by the coal plant operatives, and the driver's duty to maintain the turbine operating at constant speed, using steam taken from the steam receiver system. The control room was concerned with the generation of electrical energy, the control of voltage and the distribution of the energy into the local networks. Other operators looked after the coal delivery and transportation system, the ash removal from the boilers, the provision of cooling water and so on. Each of these systems had its control centre, but if this was provided with any instrumentation it was very rudimentary [...]