309 results about "Solar inverter" patented technology

In one aspect, a solar inverter which can be connected to at least one photovoltaic generator at the input end and to a power system at the output end is provided. The solar inverter includes an inverter module, an electronic control unit at least for diagnosing an inverter module, and a bus interface for technically connecting the electronic control unit to a communication bus. The electronic control unit cyclically outputs a piece of status information of the solar inverter on the communication bus, and outputs an error message on the communication bus, cyclically reads status information of other solar inverters that are connected to the communication bus, and outputs an error message on the communication bus in case at least one expected additional piece of status information fails to be output. Whereby, the need for a separate monitoring unit is eliminated.

A power generation system including a photovoltaic (PV) module to generate direct current (DC) power is provided. The system includes a controller to determine a maximum power point for the power generation system and a boost converter for receiving control signals from the controller to boost the power from the PV module to a threshold voltage required to inject sinusoidal currents into the grid. A DC to alternating current (AC) multilevel inverter is provided in the system to supply the power from the PV module to a power grid. The system also includes a bypass circuit to bypass the boost converter when an input voltage of the DC to AC multilevel inverter is higher than or equal to the threshold voltage.

A photovoltaic (PV) sub-generator junction box (1) for a PV system (100) comprises a plurality of electric terminals (11) for optionally connecting one respective PV string (2) of one or more serially connected PV modules (3). Said PV sub-generator junction box (1) further comprises a sub-generator line terminal (12) for connecting a PV sub-generator line (4) of a remote central PV inverter (5) or connecting a PV sub-generator line (4) of an inserted PV generator junction box (6). The PV sub-generator junction box (1) also comprises an electronic control unit (10) that is connected to a central control unit (7) of the PV inverter (5) in order to exchange data (DAT). According to the invention, the PV sub-generator junction box (1) comprises a power line modem (8) for feeding and retrieving the data (DAT) via the PV sub-generator line (4).

The invention discloses a voltage regulation method based on inverter power coordination control. The method comprises the steps that during one sampling period, a constrained and optimized mathematical model is used for conducting power coordination control over photovoltaic inverters; the objective function (shown in the specification) of the constrained and optimized mathematical model is the minimum of the sum of reactive power output by all photovoltaic power sources, and the constraint conditions include the inverter capacity constraint, the node flow constraint, the node voltage constraint and the inverter power adjustment weight constraint; on the condition of meeting all the proposed constraint conditions, a set of reactive power adjustment quantities of the minimum sum of the reactive power output by all the photovoltaic power sources are solved through an optimization algorithm and serve as reactive power reference values for coordination control over all the photovoltaic inverters, and voltage adjustment of grid-connection points in an area is achieved. By means of the method, on the premise of not reducing the photovoltaic output active power, the voltage adjustment capacity of each inverter can be fully utilized, and the situation that unnecessary lien power losses are caused by output of excessive reactive power can be avoided.

An input-side protective circuit for protecting an intermediate circuit of an inverter against overvoltages, wherein the input-side protective circuit includes an upstream element for limiting the voltage of the intermediate circuit connected upstream of the intermediate circuit and which is bridgeable by a mechanical switching device that is controllable such that it opens in a feed-in operation of the inverter when an intermediate circuit voltage is greater than a specified voltage limit. The protective circuit also includes an electronic voltage limiter connected downstream of the upstream element and connected in parallel to the intermediate circuit.

According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of controlling a power output of an inverter (12). The method comprises measuring an output current (I A ) of the inverter (12), determining a difference between the output current (I A ) and a reference current (I A *), and controlling a reference input voltage (V DC *) of the inverter (12) as a function of the determined difference. In a second aspect of the invention, there is described a system (10) for controlling a power output of an inverter (12). The system comprises an inverter (12) arranged to output a current (I A ) as a function of a reference input voltage (V DC *). The system (10) further comprises a controller (14, 16) arranged to determine a difference between the output current (I A ) and a reference current (I A *). The controller (14, 16) is further arranged to control the reference input voltage (V DC *) as a function of the determined difference. The method may allow for control of a photovoltaic inverter at a power less than its maximum capability for a given solar irradiation, which may avoid the problem of the photovoltaic array voltage rising above a level where the inverter can run.

For the single-phase grounding fault and instant fault of a power distribution network including a photovoltaic microgrid, the invention discloses a photovoltaic microgrid fault isolation method based on a fault state. The method includes the following steps of (1) partitioning the microgrid; (2) isolating the fault sections; (3) cutting off a single-phase grounding fault wire; and (4) recovering the power supply of fault microgrid partitions. The microgrid is reasonably partitioned, the fault sections are isolated through a boundary switch, and the power-off range is reduced. By the full use of the anti-islanding protection function of a photovoltaic inverter, a fault line is selected through S transform after the photovoltaic power supply and the power grid are isolated, so that the reliability of relay protection and the accuracy of line selection are improved, and the problem that the power distribution network including the photovoltaic power supply is unreliable in relay protection due to the bidirectional flow of power is solved. The photovoltaic microgrid fault isolation method has better protection effects on the single-phase grounding fault and other instant faults in the power distribution network.

The invention provides a photovoltaic grid-connected inverter current control method based on positive and negative sequence component separation aiming at the problem that in the first step abc-alpha beta of the prior SVPWM (Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation) coordinate transformation, the sum of default three-phase voltage vectors is zero constantly, so that when the three-phase unbalanced grid voltage is subjected to SVPWM transformation, the information distortion is caused, so that a voltage waveform can not be accurately reduced in the SVPWM inverse transformation. The photovoltaic grid-connected inverter current control method has the beneficial effects that through decomposing the unbalanced grid voltage into respective balanced standard positive sequence components U+d and U+q and respective balanced standard negative sequence components U-d and U-q, due to the respective balance of the positive and negative sequence grid voltage components, the voltage waveform inverted by utilizing a component space vector method can be better simulated, so that a more ideal grid-connected current waveform is obtained under the unbalanced power grid voltage.

The invention discloses a voltage frequency adjustment method considering photovoltaic maximum power tracking for an active power distribution network. The voltage frequency adjustment method comprises the following steps of acquiring a reference voltage V<mpp> of a photovoltaic cell in a maximum power running mode; acquiring a DC voltage V<dc> output from the photovoltaic cell; carrying out frequency adjustment on the DC voltage V<dc> to obtain a frequency adjustment quantity Delta Omega; calculating an average value P of active power and an average value Q of reactive power output from a photovoltaic inverter; calculating a droop coefficient of a self-adaptive droop control; obtaining a reference voltage amplitude U<*> and a reference angular frequency Omega' output from an AC side of the photovoltaic inverter after considering the self-adaptive droop control of a circuit impedance factor; obtaining a reference angular frequency Omega' after frequency adjustment; and calculating an input signal U<ref> of a pulse width modulation (PWM) driving circuit of the photovoltaic inverter. By the voltage frequency adjustment method, distributed photovoltaic maximum power can be ensured to be output, and meanwhile, the influence of the circuit impedance is considered; and when a load or an environment changes, active power and reactive power can be accurately allocated to the photovoltaic inverter, and the purpose of improving the reliability of distributed photovoltaic power supply is achieved.

The invention discloses a large-scale photovoltaic power station and distribution grid harmonic wave cross-impact analysis model building method and belongs to the technical field of new energy power generation and transmission. The large-scale photovoltaic power station and distribution grid harmonic wave cross-impact analysis model building method is mainly used for analyzing harmonic wave interaction influence of a large-scale photovoltaic power station and a distribution grid. The large-scale photovoltaic power station adopts a power electronic device as a grid-connection interface and can fill a large amount of harmonic wave into a power grid inevitably, and by means of specificity of a photovoltaic inverter, the generated harmonic wave has the advantages of being wide in broadband, high in frequency and capable of generating series-parallel connection resonance with distributed capacitors of the power grid. A large-scale photovoltaic power station and distribution grid harmonic wave cross-impact analysis model is formed by a photovoltaic harmonic analysis model and a distribution grid equivalent circuit, the photovoltaic harmonic analysis model is used for analyzing power station harmonic wave output characteristics, and the distribution grid equivalent circuit is used for representing the distribution grid which the power grid is connected in. The large-scale photovoltaic power station and distribution grid harmonic wave cross-impact analysis model can provide a theoretical basis for issues of photovoltaic power station and distribution grid planning, harmonic wave estimation, estimation of photovoltaic power station accepting capability of the distribution grid, photovoltaic grid connection regulation formulation and the like.

The invention discloses a positive and negative sequence component separation method of low-voltage ride-through control of a photovoltaic grid-connected inverter. The positive and negative sequence component separation method of the low-voltage ride-through control of the photovoltaic grid-connected inverter is characterized by comprising the following steps of obtaining three-phase voltage instantaneous values and three-phase current instantaneous values through detection of voltage and current of a power gird, obtaining output signals which are a voltage synchronous phase angle sine value and a voltage synchronous phase angle cosine value of the power grid, and output signals which are a current synchronous phase angle sine value and a current synchronous phase angle cosine value of the power grid through processing of a synchronous phase locking unit, obtaining three-phase reference voltages of the photovoltaic grid-connected inverter according to four obtained voltage positive and negative sequence components, four obtained current positive and negative sequence components and four current positive and negative sequence component set values which are set according to output power of a photovoltaic cell panel through a current control unit, and obtaining a PWM switching signal corresponding to the three-phase inverter according to the three-phase reference voltages and bipolar triangle carrier signals through a PWM wave generating unit to achieve the low-voltage ride-through control of the photovoltaic grid-connected inverter. The positive and negative sequence component separation method of the low-voltage ride-through control of the photovoltaic grid-connected inverter is simple and reliable in method and good in practicability.

There is described a plant (1) for converting solar energy into electrical energy, comprising a photovoltaic generator (2a) including at least one string (2) of photovoltaic modules (M), a pulse generator (31) able to send electrical pulses to the input of the string (2), a signal detector (OP) arranged at the output of the string (2) and able to detect, at the output of the string (2), the presence of a signal which is a function of the electrical pulses at the input, and alarm means connected to the signal detector (OP) and able to generate an alarm in the event that there is no signal at the output of the string (2).

The invention relates to an integrated gate-commutated thyristor (IGCT)-based hybrid cascaded H-bridge multi-level high-voltage inverter, which belongs to the technical field of electric drive. The inverter comprises a rectification unit, a DC unit, an inversion unit and a dv/dt filter, wherein the secondary side of a multi-winding rectifier transformer is connected with the input of the rectification unit; the output of the rectification unit is connected with the input of the DC unit; the output of the DC unit is connected with the inversion unit; and the output of the inversion unit is connected with the dv/dt filter. The inverter solves the problem that 10 kV high-voltage high-capacity output is obtained without realizing direct series connection by IGCT devices, less impacts a power grid in a working process, increases the sine degree of output voltages, has relatively lower difficulties in control and enhanced reliability, improves the working stability of a system, effectively inhibits current harmonics on a power grid side, and makes the distortion rate of line current on an input side meet standard requirements.

The invention discloses a solar photovoltaic grid-connected inverter, which includes a power circuit and a control circuit. The power circuit includes a DC/DC unit, a DC/AC unit, and a filter unit; Collect digital and/or analog signals in the system, control the power devices in the power circuit after completing the corresponding operations, and dynamically track the maximum power point of the solar cell array to adjust the working point of the solar cell array. The invention also discloses a solar inverter air conditioner system, which includes a solar cell array, a DC boost module, a solar photovoltaic grid-connected inverter, and a DC inverter air conditioner. The grid-connected inverter is connected between the DC step-up module and the utility grid. The invention realizes that the air conditioner is jointly driven by the solar energy and the mains power, and when the air conditioner is idle or the solar energy is surplus, the electric energy can be fed back to the city network.

The invention discloses a photovoltaic microgrid system and a control method thereof. The photovoltaic microgrid system comprises a photovoltaic power generation system, and a photovoltaic energy storage system. The photovoltaic power generation system comprises a photovoltaic panel and a photovoltaic inverter. The photovoltaic energy storage system comprises an energy storage battery, a current sensor and a DC/DC module. The first end of the DC/DC module is connected with the output end of the photovoltaic panel. The second end of the DC/DC module is connected with the energy storage battery.The third end of the DC/DC module is connected with the direct-current side of the photovoltaic inverter through the current sensor. The DC/DC module is used for calculating the output power of the photovoltaic inverter according to the output voltage of the photovoltaic panel and the current of the direct-current side of the photovoltaic inverter, and adjusting the working state of the photovoltaic energy storage system according to the output power of the photovoltaic inverter, the output voltage of the photovoltaic panel and the SOC of the energy storage battery. The system is simple in structure and good in autonomy. The alternating current harmonic of the power grid and the photovoltaic inverter is not influenced at all, and the energy utilization rate of the photovoltaic panel is high.

An inverter device has an active ripple cancellation boost circuit being configured to a DC source from a plurality of solar cells and configured to filter an AC current ripple back to the DC source and boost the DC voltage to an intermediary 12-15 voltage range. The device has a wave shaper circuit comprising a phase shift zero voltage switching full bridge circuit and a rectifier energy recovery circuit, the phase shift zero voltage switching full bridge circuit configured to shape the DC source to a half wave rectified 120V to 240V waveform. The device has an analog mixed signal controller module configured to generate a PWM waveform and synchronize the rectified waveform to a grid voltage.

The invention discloses a software control method for derating output power of a photovoltaic inverter in case of over-temperature. The method comprises the following steps: data storage, i.e., setting a power curve and an efficiency-power curve for temperature-derating and storing the curves in the form of a corresponding table; current temperature detection; current power detection; current DC voltage detection; efficiency-power curve selection; current efficiency determination; derating set power and efficiency determination; and derating target power calculation and determination, i.e., comparing the product value of the initial power value and the current efficiency of derating target power to the product value of the derating set power and efficiency, and if the product value of the initial power value and the current efficiency of the derating target power is greater than or equal to the product value of the derating set power and the efficiency, continuing diminishing the power value of the derating target power until the product value of the initial power value and the current efficiency of the derating target power is smaller than the product value of the derating set power and the efficiency. By using such a method, it is ensured that the photovoltaic inverter can maintain quite high power charge and discharge in case of over-temperature power derating.

The invention provides a semiconductor power device. A traditional IGBT and a traditional VDMOS are ingeniously combined to form the novel semiconductor power device provided with a common part and consisting of a basic transverse IGBT and a basic VDMOS. The doping concentration of a re-doped second electric conduction type region is adjusted or a service life controlling method is adopted to decrease first forward breakover current produced by the basic transverse IGBT and meanwhile increase second forward breakover current produced by the basic VDMOS, and the first forward breakover current is smaller than the second forward breakover current. Compared with the traditional IGBT and the traditional VDMOS, the switching speed of the device is improved while the reduction of the breakover resistance loss and the breakover power loss of the device is ensured. By improving a structure of a drifting region, a forward breakover negative resistance region is eliminated, and the performance of the semiconductor power device is improved. The semiconductor power device is applied to the fields of power supplies, solar inverters, motor driving and other fields needing high-voltage and high-frequency switching.

The invention discloses a transformer with a high set-up ratio, a solar inverter and a solar battery system. According to the invention, the low output voltages of power sources are converted to high output voltages through the transformer with the high set-up ratio; and according to the specific application and different control methods, the outputs of the transformer with the high set-up ratio from a first technical scheme to a fourth technical scheme can be standard direct current voltages or controlled and modulated specific voltage wave forms. By using the transformer with the high set-up ratio, the solar inverter and the solar battery system, the defects of small set-up ratio, long transmission path, large additional loss, low energy conversion efficiency and the like in the prior art can be overcome, so as to realize the advantages of large set-up ratio, short transmission path, small additional loss and high energy conversion efficiency.