Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ground fault protection methods
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Application No.: US15754783Application Date: 2016-08-22
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Publication No.: US10992129B2Publication Date: 2021-04-27
- Inventor: Lihua Hu , Teng Long , Martin Samuel Butcher , Allan David Crane
- Applicant: GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Ltd
- Applicant Address: GB Rugby
- Assignee: GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Ltd
- Current Assignee: GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Ltd
- Current Assignee Address: GB Rugby
- Agency: Wood IP LLC
- Priority: EP15182373 20150825
- International Application: PCT/GB2016/052593 WO 20160822
- International Announcement: WO2017/032992 WO 20170302
- Main IPC: H02H7/26
- IPC: H02H7/26 ; H02H3/16 ; G01R31/50 ; G01R31/08 ; H02H1/00 ; G01R19/25 ; G01R23/16

Abstract:
A power distribution system includes power converter systems electrically connected to a distribution bus which defines a point of common coupling. Each power converter system includes a power converter with semiconductor switching devices controlled using a pulse width modulation strategy with a switching frequency. A controller for each power converter system applies a spectrum analysis process to the respective power converter system that uses measured or derived zero sequence currents associated with the respective power converter system to determine the location of a ground fault within the power distribution system. Each controller applies a switching frequency process where the switching frequency of the power converter of at least one of the power converter systems is different from the switching frequency of the power converter of at least another one of the power converter systems during at least part of the time that the spectrum analysis process is applied.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180241200A1 GROUND FAULT PROTECTION METHODS Public/Granted day:2018-08-23
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