[0002]In recent years, the global production and manufacturing industry has been re-arranged, and China's industrial manufacturing industry has a strong
momentum. The use of robots in the industry will cause large fluctuations in reactive
power demand. If there is no fast-tracking reactive power support, it will cause large flickering changes in
system voltage, thereby affecting the quality of production products.
For example, when many
welding machines are installed between phases of a three-phase system, because the power levels of the welding machines installed between each phase are different and they work at different times, the magnitude and phase of the three-phase current are very different during the working process, resulting in three-
phase imbalance. ;At the same time, the electric welding
machine works as an intermittent
impact load, and the continuous time of the working process is mostly 0.1-1 second. During this process, the current is very large, and the reactive
power demand is also large. If the capacitive reactive power support of the system is insufficient during this period , will cause a serious drop in the system
voltage, which will affect the welding temperature of the electric welding
machine, resulting in a decline in welding quality and defective products.
Another example is that due to the application of a large number of robots in automated
assembly equipment, there are a large number of
inverter-driven operating mechanisms in the production process. Most of these inverters are 6-pulse or 12-pulse
rectifier bridges, with low power factors and large demand changes.
In short, the demand for reactive power of modern production equipment is huge and fluctuates frequently. If there is no suitable equipment to quickly provide reactive power on site, it will inevitably bring
impact to the
grid voltage, and the
power quality problem of abnormal voltage will affect the equipment. Especially the normal operation of precision equipment
Considering the above problems, in order to meet the needs of the site, a variety of reactive
power compensation and three-phase unbalance control devices have been developed. The advanced dynamic reactive power compensation equipment highlights its superiority, but it also has its inherent disadvantages: among them, the cost of
thyristor switching capacitive reactor is low, but its switching speed is very slow under the traditional
operation mode, especially when it is put into operation. Both are greater than 0.02 seconds, especially when fluctuating reactive power demand cannot be tracked; and the active dynamic reactive power compensation device uses fast IGBT power electronic switches, which can track fluctuating loads very quickly and can output unbalanced current , but the cost of power electronic switches is too high, large-capacity applications are unrealistic, and the on-off process of power electronic switches will bring high-order
harmonics to the
power grid, so although there are technical advantages, the application is still subject to many restrictions
Due to the cost of
hybrid compensation equipment with this structure, the capacity of the active part is usually very small, usually accounting for less than 10% of the capacity of the whole cabinet. The timing difference part has a limited
control function on the three-phase unbalance
In a sense, mixed compensation is a measure to deal with large-capacity fluctuations in on-site reactive power demand, and it is also an irresistible move, but it does not improve much in terms of speed and increases the complexity of the system
[0003] On the other hand, in the traditional
thyristor switching
capacitor products, all rely solely on the hardware circuit to obtain the zero-crossing point of the voltage across the
thyristor switch to select the input timing, because the judgment of the zero-crossing point by the hardware circuit is relatively rough, so this method can only be used Ensure that the voltage across the thyristor is as small as possible when switching on, and it is impossible to really avoid the
inrush current when switching on. What's more, because of the effect of the internal
discharge resistance of the
capacitor, the timing of
capacitor switching in this way is usually at the moment when the instantaneous value of the system voltage is low. , due to the inherent characteristics of the capacitor current, that is, the input of the capacitor is just at the
peak value of the steady-state current of the capacitor. It takes a period of transient process to transition to a stable
sinusoidal current. If the input capacity is too large at the same time, this transition process is easy to cause system oscillation, which deviates from the real function of compensation; and the removal of compensation
branch, the traditional The equipment does not judge the voltage, that is: as long as the controller gives the IO command to set low, the
thyristor drive signal will be set low, and it will be automatically turned off when the next current crosses zero (the
peak value of the system voltage at this time), and this point has It may be the positive peak point of the system voltage or the
negative peak point of the system voltage, so the phase cannot be determined at the next input
In addition, because there is no dedicated
discharge circuit on the capacitor, it is only discharged by the internal safety
discharge resistor (with a large resistance value), so it takes a long time for the hardware to regain the zero-crossing point
To sum up, the traditional capacitor switching method can neither realize
fast switching nor smooth current input without
impact.