2555results about "Harmonic reduction arrangement" patented technology

The Electric Power Converter has the qualifications for an uninterruptable power supply, battery management, energy conversion, micro-grid formation, Power Factor Correction including Total Harmonic Distortion correction in real time. Uninterruptable power supply's use is for always-on, real-time, all-time, reduced distortion with functions of load reduction and management during peak load events. The Electric Power Converter as well has the ability to provide maintenance for most types of batteries including charging and discharge regiments to increase the overall lifetime of a battery, the maintenance, incorporating restorative functions that can refurbish dead batteries or can further increase the overall efficiency and useful function of weaker/aged/defective batteries. Energy conversion capabilities allow for the conversion of AC or DC to AC or DC with high efficiency and ability to actively vary the frequency in accordance to the required parameters. The Electric Power Converter is able to establish and sustain a micro-grid with multiple and varying sources of power generation and load conditions. The Electric Power Converter is achieving dynamic, real-time, interactive Power Factor Correction (PFC) function with advanced voltage harmonic distortion correction with a high efficiency ratio. The Electric Power converter is designed to function with the emerging Smart Grid technologies and provide an overall higher level of operating efficiency and higher quality of electrical power.

A system and method for providing grid connected utility pole distributed solar power generation is disclosed. The system includes a utility pole, an inverter and one or more solar panels. Each of the one or more solar panels is mounted on the utility pole. The method includes receiving solar energy at the one or more solar panels. The one or more solar panels convert the solar energy to direct current (DC) electrical energy. Further, the method includes transmitting the DC electrical energy to the inverter, which is mounted on the utility pole. The inverter can be integrated with one or more solar panels to form an alternating current photovoltaic (AC PV) module. Furthermore, the method includes converting the DC electrical energy to alternating current (AC) electrical energy by the inverter and transmitting the AC electrical energy to a grid for power distribution.

The invention provides a method and system for operating a solar farm inverter as a Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) device—a STATCOM—for voltage control. The solar farm inverter can provide voltage regulation, damping enhancement, stability improvement and other benefits provided by FACTS devices. In one embodiment, the solar farm operating as a STATCOM at night is employed to increase the connectivity of neighbouring wind farms that produce peak power at night due to high winds, but are unable to connect due to voltage regulation issues. The present invention can also operate during the day because there remains inverter capacity after real power export by the solar farm. Additional auxiliary controllers are incorporated in the solar farm inverter to enhance damping and stability, and provide other benefits provided by FACTS devices.

The invention in the simplest form is an improved variable speed engine/generator set with an integrated power conditioning system and control method, used to generate high quality AC power with optimum fuel efficiency and reduced emissions. The variable speed generator control scheme allows for load adaptive speed control of engine and generator field. The transformerless power inverter topology and control method provides the necessary output frequency, voltage and/or current waveform regulation, harmonic distortion rejection, and provides for single phase, or unbalanced loading.

The invention relates to a super capacitor energy storage type power quality compensator. A system structure comprises a compensation transformer, a series compensator, a parallel compensator, a super capacitor group, a current foldback circuit, a bidirectional DC/DC chopper circuit, a signal sampling circuit, a control circuit, a drive circuit, a human-computer interface and corresponding auxiliary circuits, which form a three-phase three-wire system topological structure. By utilizing the excellent characteristics of great power density, high charging and discharging speed and long cycle life of a super capacitor, the super capacitor energy storage type power quality compensator is matched with the DC/DC chopper circuit to form an energy storage control system which plays the roles of adjusting power and stabilizing the voltage of a direct current bus in work. The invention also has the functions of dynamic voltage recovery, active filter and reactive compensation and can ensure that a load can obtain rated sine voltage and the current of a grid is sine current with the same direction (unit power factor) with that of a voltage fundamental wave positive sequence active component, thereby comprehensively improving the quality of power. The invention has positive generalization and application value for both the public grid and users.

The invention discloses a control circuit for a voltage dropping type power factor corrector, which is used for controlling a voltage dropping converter to realize the power factor correction function. Inductance current critical intermittent control of changed on-time is performed on a Buck circuit through the control circuit to ensure that the on-time of a switching tube rises in the power frequency period along with increase of input voltage; and the critical intermittent working mode of inductance current in the Buck circuit is controlled, and when the inductance current is greater than zero, the junction capacitance of the switching tube and inductance are resonated, and the switching tube is connected when the voltage resonance of the junction capacitance reaches the volley bottom. The control circuit for the voltage dropping type power factor corrector has the characteristics of ensuring high power factors in the whole input voltage range, and meeting the harmonic requirements of IEC 61000-3-2 Class C, Class D, along with high efficiency.

The invention provides a method for injecting a harmonic voltage to restrain a harmonic current of a PMSM (permanent magnet synchronous motor), which is characterized in that a ring to restrain the harmonic current is added to realize the closed-loop control for the harmonic current on the basis of extracting harmonic current components in the PMSM in real time, thus calculating to obtain harmonic voltage components which are required to be injected to restrain 5-order and 7-order harmonic currents of the PMSM; and then the obtained harmonic voltage components are injected into a three-phase control voltage in a speed control system of the PMSM so as to offset the 5-order and 7-order harmonic components in a motor current when the PMSM runs, thereby reaching the purpose of restraining the 5-order and 7-order harmonic currents. The method is used to solve the technical difficulty that current ZCP (zero crossing point) is required to detect accurately in a traditional mode to restrain the harmonic current, remarkably improves the current waveform of the motor, effectively restrains the 5-order and 7-order harmonic currents caused by the nonlinear characteristics of an inverter and the air-gap field distortion of the motor, effectively reduces the additional loss caused by the 5-order and 7-order harmonic current components, reduces the electromagnetic torque and the revolving speed pulse of the PMSM and improves the running efficiency and the running reliability of the PMSM.

The invention relates to a battery energy storage system based power conversion system and a control method thereof. The power conversion system comprises a battery energy storage system, a bidirectional DC/DC (direct-current) converter, a grid-side current transformer, a filter circuit and an isolated voltage transformer. The battery energy storage system is in parallel connection with a direct-current bus of the grid-side current transformer through the bidirectional DC/DC converter; the grid-side current transformer, the filter circuit and the isolated voltage transformer are connected in sequence; and the isolated voltage transformer accesses to a power grid. The control method includes sequentially monitoring the battery energy storage system, the bidirectional DC/DC converter, the grid-side current transformer, the filter circuit and the isolated voltage transformer by a control circuit. Since the battery energy storage system utilizes battery cells connected in series and is in parallel connection with the common direct-current bus through the bidirectional DC/DC converter, circulation among battery packs is avoided, and capacity expansion of the system is facilitated. Further, by the aid of the monitoring control strategy for SOC (super capacitor state of charge) of the battery energy storage system and battery end voltage, excessive charge or discharge state of the battery energy storage system is avoided, service lives of the battery packs are prolonged, and comprehensive service cost is lowered.

The invention relates to a virtual synchronous generator control method based on self-adapting moment inertia. The output of a grid-connected inverter in distributed generation is connected with an AC bus of a filter capacitor Cf which is in parallel connection with the grid-connected inverter through a filter inductor Lf; sampling is performed to obtain the output power, the voltage and the current of an output interface of an inverter; the output power, the voltage and the current are transmitted to a VSG (virtual synchronous generator) algorithm; the calculated terminal voltage of a VSG stator is sent to be controlled by a voltage external loop; the voltage external loop adopts a PI controller to stably load the voltage; the current of the filter capacitor is sent to be controlled by a voltage internal loop; the voltage internal loop adopts a PI controller to increase the response speed; a control signal is outputted by a voltage-current dual-closed loop to the grid-connected inverter; the moment inertia in the virtual synchronous generator in the control method can be changed in a self-adapted manner according to the change capacity of the system frequency. Through the adoption of the virtual synchronous generator control method disclosed by the invention, the transient state process of the system is reduced; a great deal of harmonic waves in the system is offset; the stability of frequency and the stability of voltage can be improved; the adaptability and the power supply quality of a micro-electrical network are improved; the problem that in a conventional method, the output frequency is reduced, is solved.

The invention discloses an electrified railway traction power supply and energy storage device and a method of the electrified railway traction power supply and energy storage device. The energy storage device is connected between a feeding arm alpha or feeding arm beta at the output end of a traction transformer and a steel rail, or two energy storage devices are connected between the feeding arm alpha and the steel rail and between the feeding arm beta and the steel rail respectively, wherein the energy storage device is arranged in a traction substation. The energy storage device comprises a control unit, an isolation transformer, a PWM current transformer, an energy transformation circuit and an energy storage element, wherein the PWM current transformer, the energy transformation circuit and the energy storage element are connected in sequence, and the control unit is used for carrying out calculation according to the voltage, current and direction of the feeding arm alpha and/or feeding arm beta to complete control over the PWM current transformer and the energy transformation circuit and achieve energy exchange between the energy storage device and the feeding section connected with the energy storage device. The electrified railway traction power supply and energy storage device can fully recycle locomotive braking feedback electric energy, improve the energy utilization ratio of a traction power supply system, reduce the installation billing capacity of the traction transformer, reduce cost and absorb and store energy even in electricity valleys, has the effect of peak load shifting and further has the functions of dynamic reactive-power compensation and low-order harmonic suppression.

The invention belongs to the field of electrical engineering, distributed power generation and power quality control, and aims to provide a multi-functional grid-connected inverter and a grid-connected inverter control method. The grid-connected inverter comprises a direct-current bus bar with a capacitor and three sets of single-phase full-bridge inverter circuits sharing the direct-current bus bar, the direct-current output ends of a distributed power supply or a grid-connected energy-storing generating set are connected to both ends of the capacitor of the direct-current bus bar, the output of each set of single-phase full-bridge inverter circuit is connected to a filter, and the output ends of each filter are connected with a distribution network of the 380V voltage class through a single-phase step-up isolation transformer. According to the invention, the grid-connected inverter equipment is effectively utilized to carry out effective control on the power quality of points of interconnection, so that the grid-connected inverter is multi-purpose and multi-functional, the cost performance of the grid-connected inverter is enhanced, the investment, operation and maintenance cost of a system can be reduced, and the reliability of the system can be enhanced. The principle of the provided control scheme is clear, and the control scheme is highly operable and reliable in operation.

The invention discloses a control method of an alternating voltage sensorless high voltage direct current transmission converter, belonging to the technical field of electrical equipment and comprising the following steps: establishing a stator resistor and an inductor for a virtual motor; building relative position relationships among a current vector, a voltage vector and a flux linkage vector, and analyzing a vectorgram; establishing a converter and flux linkage mathematic model, and calculating a virtual flux linkage vector of a system to obtain a power feedback quantity of the system; acquiring an active control signal and a reactive control signal of the system through a direct power control algorithm, and generating a PWM trigger converter for respectively and independently controlling the active power and reactive power of the system; and utilizing MATLAB simulation software to set up a system model for verifying, and obtaining a systematic selection device when the verification is successful. By utilizing Matlab/Simulink to set up a corresponding simulation model, the designed method is verified to have rapid response speed, the voltage and power after startup can still reach stable values after about 2 power frequency periods and have high steady state precision.

A hybrid conditioner for filtering harmonics in a power system that includes a non-linear load. The hybrid conditioner includes an active filter structured and controlled to filter one or more high-order harmonic currents of the fundamental frequency, and a passive filter structured to filter one or more low-order harmonic currents of the fundamental frequency. The active filter and the passive filter are electrically connected in parallel with one another. The hybrid conditioner may also be for providing reactive power compensation for the power system, wherein the active filter is further controlled to provide a compensatory reactive power for compensating for the reactive power that is consumed by the load. The hybrid conditioner may also provide oscillation dampening for the power system, wherein the active filter is further controlled to damp oscillating currents that exist between the passive filter and the AC source.

The invention relates to an active damping method of an LCL grid-connected inverter system. The active damping method is realized through the following steps of: setting conjugated zero points or independent zero points to set off conjugated resonance limit points generated by an LCL filter in the grid-connected inverter system or to draw the conjugated resonance limit points to a stable area, and adopting grid-side inductive current to feed back and introduce a state variable in the LCL filter to conduct feedback compensation. By conducting feedback compensation on grid-side inductive voltage, the resonance damping of the LCL filter is controlled, the waveform and the amplitude of grid current of the grid-connected inverter system are controlled and the influence of grid voltage harmonic wave on the grid current can be effectively suppressed. The active damping method is a simple and effective realization method. A realization circuit comprises parallel and series active damping circuits.

The invention relates to a renewable energy source integrated complementary power generation technology for a distributed power supply and provides a multi-energy integrated complementary power generation method and multi-energy integrated complementary power generation device consisting of water energy, wind energy, solar energy and other renewable energy sources. According to the method, the water energy serves as a main body, the peculiar mountain valley wind of a hydropower station is fully utilized, the solar energy, the biomass energy and other renewable energy sources which can be relatively concentrated are locally utilized and are gathered around the hydropower station, a low-voltage alternating current bus [W1] of the hydropower station serves as a grid-connected access point, and a water, wind, solar and biomass multi-energy integrated complementary power generation system which takes water and electricity as the center and takes the water and wind complementation as the basis. According to the device, a hydropower station [G1] serves as a main body, the electric energy generated by power generation subsystems [G2], [G3], [G4] and [G5] is subjected to full power conversion and is connected to the [W1] in a grid-connected mode, the original switching device and grid line of the hydropower station are utilized, and a multi-type renewable energy source integrated complementary distributed power supply which can supply power in a grid-connected mode and independently operate is formed.

A method of controlling the grid-side current of a single-phase grid-connected converter having an LCL filter connected between the output of the converter and the grid. The method includes measuring a grid voltage (v_S) and at least one signal in a group of signals consisting of a grid-side current (i₀), a converter-side current (i₁) and a capacitor voltage (v_C0). The method includes estimating the fundamental component (v_S,1) of the grid voltage (v_S), forming a grid-side current reference (i₀*), a converter-side current reference (i₁*) and a capacitor voltage reference (v_C0*) for the grid-side current of the LCL filter using the fundamental component of the grid voltage (v_S,1), forming estimates for the non-measured signals in said group of signals, forming a grid-side current difference term (ĩ₀), a converter-side current difference term (ĩ₁) and a capacitor voltage difference term ({tilde over (v)}_C0) from the differences between the references and measured/estimated values of said signals, forming an injection term for damping the resonance of the LCL filter by using an active damping injection mechanism (ADI), in which the grid-side current difference term (ĩ₀), the converter-side current difference term (ĩ₁) and the capacitor voltage difference term ({tilde over (v)}_C0) are used, forming an estimate of harmonic distortion term ({circumflex over (φ)}) using the grid-side current difference term (ĩ₀), and controlling the output voltage (e) of the converter on the basis of the grid voltage, formed injection term and formed estimate of the harmonic distortion term ({circumflex over (φ)}) to produce a grid side (i₀) current corresponding to the current reference.

The invention discloses a high-efficiency stable multifunctional single-stage photovoltaic single-phase grid-connected control method, and belongs to the technical field of photovoltaic power generation control. The method is characterized in that: the method adopts a high-speed digital signal processor and applies a C language dynamic fixed-point algorithm to form a high-performance control algorithm of a whole grid-connected control system; the method adopts a single-stage grid-connected control structure and a quick smooth maximum power point tracking method to directly transmit the maximum energy sent by a photovoltaic array to a local urban power grid through first-stage DC/AC transformation; the harmonic and idle work produced by a local load can be compensated by adopting an FBD method, so the method is favorable for improving the electrical energy quality of the local power grid; and a proportional resonant converter is used to implement precise closed-loop control for the grid-connected current so that the photovoltaic grid-connected current and the commercial single-phase voltage are totally synchronous while implementing maximum power point tracking of the photovoltaic array. The power factor is high, the system efficiency is high, the operation of the whole system is safe and reliable, and the aberration rate of the grid-connected current harmonic is lower than 3 percent.

A power device is provided for filtering or dampening harmonics and optimizing the power factor in power distributions systems. A device for a 3-phase power system comprises series inductors able to communicate between an AC power source and a non-linear load. Connected in parallel to the series inductors, at the junction with the non-linear load, are shunt inductors used to trap harmonic currents. Power factor correction capacitors are connected to the ends of the shunt inductors. The series inductor and shunt inductor are used to form a coaxial reactor assembly, which further comprises a reactor core. The coaxial reactor assembly is formed by winding a first inductor around the core and then winding a separate second inductor around the perimeter of the first inductor. In another embodiment, the device includes a third inductor to achieve better dampening and power factor performance.

A power generation system comprises at least two electrical systems connected at an electrical connection point. Each electrical system comprises a power conversion system comprising a converter including a plurality of switches for converting direct current power into alternating current power. The power generation system comprises a control system including at least two pulse width modulation (PWM) modulators, each PWM modulator for obtaining a fundamental waveform and a carrier signal, using the fundamental and carrier signals to generate a PWM pattern, and for providing the PWM pattern to a respective converter for driving the switches of the respective converter. The control system is configured to interleave carrier signals, fundamental waveforms, or a combination of carrier signals and fundamental waveforms of the at least two electrical systems to generate interleaved PWM patterns respectively for the at least two converters.

The invention relates to an electric locomotive non-power-off neutral section passing-electric energy quality comprehensive compensation device and method, which belongs to the technical field of railway transport equipment and electric electronics. The device comprises a controllable transfer switch, a single-phase step down transformer, a single-phase step down transformer with a middle tap, a two-phase back-to-back converter sharing a DC-side capacitor, a circuit breaker switch, four position sensors and three electric quantity sensors. In the method, when the electric locomotive passes the neutral section, the controllable transfer switch is turned off, and the device works in a non-power-off neutral section passing mode to perform control on amplitude and phase of the neutral section voltage and enable the electric locomotive to pass the neutral section with load in a non-power-off manner. Without locomotive passing, the controllable transfer switch is closed, and the device works in an electric energy quality comprehensive compensation mode and has functions of active power transfer as well as inactive power and harmonic compensation. Through the device, the problems relating to electric energy quality of a traction substation and neutral section can be comprehensively solved based on the traditional traction power supply mode.

A harmonic predictor for a wind farm comprising at least two wind turbines, each having a generator with a converter for generating electrical energy. The harmonic predictor determines the harmonic component expected from the wind farm in order to limit the harmonic component to a harmonic limit. The harmonic predictor comprises a calculation module, an iteration module and a summing module. The calculation module calculates a complex mean value over at least one period of the harmonic component of one of the wind turbines and determines a first equivalent vector therefrom. The iteration module successively connects the calculation module to at least one other of the wind turbines to form at least one second equivalent vector. The summing module sums the equivalent vectors to form a total vector and compares the total vector with the harmonic limit.

A railway power conditioner includes a DC-AC converter and a AC-DC converter for performing power conversion between AC power and DC power, a DC bus connected between the DC-AC converter and the AC-DC converter; a single-phase isolation transformer coupled to an output of the AC-DC converter and a coupling capacitor connected to the DC-AC converter.

A method of reactive power regulation in an electrical network in which electrical power is produced by an electrical generator preferably driven by the rotor of a wind power installation and suitably modulated by means of a compensation device between the generator and the network for the compensation of reactive power, and an apparatus for producing electrical energy in an electrical network, preferably an electrical generator driven by the rotor of a wind power installation and a compensation device between the generator and the network for the compensation of reactive power. The compensation device is so regulated that the electrical power delivered to the consumer has a reactive power component which is adapted in respect of its phase, amplitude and/or frequency to the consumer in such a way as to compensate for the reactive power in the consumer.

The invention relates to a comprehensive energy-conservation evaluation and decision-making method for an urban and rural distribution network. In the method, current comprehensive data of a power grid by modeling the power grid; unified analysis processing and seamless exchange docking of distribution network data are realized by adopting reasonable fault tolerance and error correction technology so as to ensure the accuracy of comprehensive data information. An energy-conservation and loss reduction optimization management strategy of the urban and rural distribution network is researched by combining the costs of a line loss evaluation system and each link of loss reduction technology according to optimization technology.

The invention discloses a grid-connected current control method for a combined single-phase two-stage photovoltaic generation system. The single-phase photovoltaic generation system is of a two-stage structure and comprises a first-stage BOOST up circuit link and a second-stage single-phase full-bridge inverter circuit link. The single-phase full-bridge inverter circuit link adopts a double-closed-loop control strategy and comprises an outer loop which is a direct-current bus voltage loop and an inner loop which is a grid-connected current loop and further utilizes voltage forward feed control of a power grid. The BOOST up circuit link is used for realizing boosting voltage of a photovoltaic battery module to a direct-current bus voltage reference value while realizing maximum power point tracking. Besides, the single-phase full-bridge inverter circuit link is used for realizing stabilization of the direct-current bus voltage and synchronization of frequency and phase of system output current and voltage of the power grid. The grid-connected current control method for the combined single-phase two-stage photovoltaic generation system has the advantages of excellent stability, flexibility in dynamic response, low content of low-order harmonics, high interference resistance, good robustness, high reliability and the like.

An active type harmonic suppression apparatus, connected in parallel to a power feeder, supplies a compensation current for injecting into the power feeder such that a utility current of a power source is approached to a sinusoidal wave. The control circuit retrieves a load current, a utility current, an output current of the power converter, a power source voltage and a voltage of the dc power capacitor for calculating and sending a reference signal of compensation voltage to a pulse-width-modulation circuit which generates switching signals for the power converter. Furthermore, the harmonic suppression apparatus can provide a fixed or variable reactive power.

The invention discloses an electric energy regulation device and method for electrified railways. The electric energy regulation device is in bridging connection between two power supply arms of a traction transformer. The electric energy regulation device comprises isolation transformers, single-phase back-to-back PWM converters, an energy conversion circuit, an energy storage element and a control unit. The control unit carries out calculation according to voltages, currents and directions of the power supply arms alpha and beta and completes control over the PWM converters and the energy conversion circuit. Consequently, energy conversion between the power supply arms alpha and beta and the energy conversion between the energy storage element and the power supply arm alpha or the power supply arm beta can be achieved. The electric energy regulation device is capable of fully recycling and utilizing braking feedback electric energy of a locomotive through transfer, storage and release of the electric energy, improves the energy utilization rate of a tractive power supply system, reduces the installation billing capacity of a traction transformer, can deal with the negative sequence, idle work and harmonic waves of a traction substation, avoids traction force losses and speed losses, caused by electric phase separation, of a train and can also have the effects of peak load shaving and voltage stabilization and can be used as an emergency power supply.

A controller (130) for compensating reactive power and selected current load harmonics in an unbalanced multi-phase power distribution system. Control current is injected from a multi-phase voltage source inverter (118) into the multi-phase power distribution system as a function of the voltage and current provided by the source inverter 118. The injected current is operative to balance the load seen by the power distribution system including non-linear/distorted and unbalanced loads in each phase. The controller includes an inner loop control processor (216), an outer loop control processor, and an adaptation processor. The adaptation processor (238) is operative to estimate a selected set of predetermined harmonic components in the periodic disturbance which is a function of the unknown system parameters, the source current, the source voltage, and their time derivatives in stationary coordinates.

The invention discloses a power quality comprehensive compensation system of an electric railway and a control method thereof. The system comprises a railway static power controller RPC and two sets of thyristor switched capacitors TSC. The thyristor switched capacitors bear a large proportion of reactive power compensation, RPC performs active power compensation, harmonic suppression and a remained small proportion of reactive power compensation for two power supply arms, therefore, the capacity of RPC is effectively reduced, and negative sequence, harmonic and reactive comprehensive compensation are realized. The control method comprises a cooperative control policy of RPC and TSC, reference current detection based on reactive separation, a reactive power distribution method and an RPC control method. The power quality comprehensive compensation system of the electric railway greatly improves the power quality of the electric railway with low cost, and the corresponding control method effectively coordinates the operation of RPC and TSC and ensures that the system has good compensation performance and favorable application prospect.

The invention provides a dynamic harmonic filter, mainly comprising a variable reactor (4), an anti-parallel thyristor trigger circuit (5), a control coil (6) and a capacitor group (7), wherein, one end of the variable reactor is in parallel connection with the capacitor group; two terminals of the anti-parallel thyristor trigger circuit are respectively connected with the both ends of the control coil to form a circuit; multiple groups of quick fuses (8) and a capacitor contactor (9) are in parallel connection with a series circuit of a capacitor (10) to form the capacitor group; when capacitive reactance of the capacitor group changes, the control coil is started under the action of the anti-parallel thyristor trigger circuit, and dynamically adjusts the inductance of the variable reactor. The dynamic harmonic filter of the invention forms a low-impedance loop to absorb the harmonic wave under harmonic frequency of f0; besides, the dynamic harmonic filter provides reactive current to improve power factor under the fundamental harmonic frequency. The dynamic harmonic filter creates conditions for reduction of harm of the harmonic wave to a transformer, a power cable, a motor, a control system, a communication system and the capacitor and the like.