Governor Department certainly is in the heart in controlling a prime mover. With it, we control the speed and the output of the prime mover, such as a steam turbine, a water turbine, a gas turbine, a Diesel engine, driving synchronous alternat current...
Governor Department certainly is in the heart in controlling a prime mover. With it, we control the speed and the output of the prime mover, such as a steam turbine, a water turbine, a gas turbine, a Diesel engine, driving synchronous alternat current generators supplying electric power to the grid. A governor is the very device to maintain the System frequency, which is the one of three conditions required in evaluating the quality of the electricity generated, in a range of required minimum variation. And a governor is a machine with really extreme precision of which operational dead band reaches within 0.02 percent. It is inevitable to do maintain the governing system with best condition to operate stably and reliably the power plant as well economically achieving our goal - to supply good quality of electricity with reasonable price to our customers. But it is true the preciseness and the importance of its role in the plant control and to the system grid have made the maintenances of a governing system not easy and simple. Until early in 1985 the maintenance job had performed with the technical services of the manufactures resulting fairly high expense in time and money. Nevertheless, as the installed capacity and the load demand increased, the ability in the field of governing system as well has drastically strengthened due to the efforts of the engineers in the Corporation.