- Patent Title: Medium voltage direct current power collection systems and methods
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Application No.: US15378679Application Date: 2016-12-14
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Publication No.: US10348093B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Harish Suryanarayana , Hongrae Kim , Sara Ahmed , Peter Steimer , Philippe Maibach , Hans Krattiger , Silverio Alvarez , Paolo Casini , Jiuping Pan
- Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
- Applicant Address: CH Baden
- Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
- Current Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
- Current Assignee Address: CH Baden
- Agency: Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
- Main IPC: H02J1/10
- IPC: H02J1/10 ; H02J3/38 ; H02H7/26

Abstract:
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of a power collection system are disclosed herein. One exemplary embodiment is an MVDC collection system coupled to a utility grid including a collection bus, a plurality of branches coupled to the collection bus, and a branch controller. Each of the plurality of branches include a semiconductor switch coupled to the collection bus, and a DC/DC converter coupled to the semiconductor switch and an LVDC power source. The branch controller configured to determine a fault condition is occurring within the MVDC collection system, determine the location of the fault condition, and isolate the fault condition using at least one of the semiconductor switches and the DC/DC converters.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180166881A1 MEDIUM VOLTAGE DIRECT CURRENT POWER COLLECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS Public/Granted day:2018-06-14
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