The invention relates to an energy conversion device (100) for an
electrolysis system (150). It comprises a tunable
transformer (101) having a primary side (102) connectable to an
electrical network (103) and a
secondary side (104), a sensor device (105) sensing an alternating primary side
voltage of the tunable
transformer, a
rectifier transformer (106, 107) having a primary side (108, 109) connected to the
secondary side of the tunable transformer and providing an alternating
secondary side voltage differing from a predefined phase shift on the secondary side (110, 111, 112, 113), and a
thyristor rectifier unit (114, 115, 116, 117) forming a multi-pulse
rectifier system (118) that receives the secondary side
voltage and provides a
DC current to the electrolyzer unit (119, 120, 121, 122). The multi-pulse rectifier
system includes a synchronization
control circuit (123, 124, 125, 126) to provide
thyristor gate pulses to the
thyristor rectifier unit at an emission angle that is synchronized with a synchronization voltage
signal (130) differing from a predefined phase shift and varies in accordance with an electrolyzer
DC current request, where the synchronization
control circuit (123, 124, 125, 126) is activated before the predefined phase shift is applied. The synchronous voltage
signal (130) directly corresponds to an AC primary side voltage sensed at the adjustable transformer primary side (102).