Method of short-circuiting a faulty converter submodule and power converter supporting same

    公开(公告)号:US11356013B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US17174825

    申请日:2021-02-12

    摘要: A method of short-circuiting a faulty submodule for a voltage-source power converter is disclosed. The submodule is based on a full-bridge, asymmetric full-bridge or half-bridge circuit design having power semiconductor switches with anti-parallel freewheeling diodes and optionally non-controllable semiconductor valves. The method 36 includes identifying a faulty semiconductor device and determining a failure mode selected from a short-circuit failure mode and an open circuit failure mode. The method further includes selecting a minimum number of power semiconductor switches suitable to provide a bypass path through the submodule depending on the identified faulty semiconductor device and the determined failure mode and driving the selected power semiconductor switches by a modified driving voltage compared to normal operation to cause them to break down in order to provide a durable, stable, low impedance short-circuit path between the AC voltage terminals of the submodule. A power converter comprising a series connection of such submodules and supporting the method of short-circuiting a faulty submodule is also disclosed.

    Dual submodule for a modular multilevel converter and modular multilevel converter including the same

    公开(公告)号:US11108338B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-31

    申请号:US16078864

    申请日:2017-02-24

    IPC分类号: H02M7/483 H02M1/32 H02M1/00

    摘要: A dual submodule is created for a modular multilevel converter, whereby the dual submodule has two interconnected submodules, whereby each submodule has an asymmetrical half-bridge circuit with two parallel bridge branches, which are connected between a first and a second terminal connection of the submodule, whereby each bridge branch is formed from a series circuit of a power semiconductor switch, and a diode, whereby the power semiconductor switch is allocated to an antiparallel free-wheeling diode, and has a capacitor, which is connected in parallel with the asymmetrical half-bridge circuit between the first and the second terminal connections of the module. The submodules are connected to each other via their AC terminals to form the dual submodule. Further, a modular multilevel converter is created, comprising a number of such dual submodules in each of its converter branches.

    Systems and methods for drilling productivity analysis

    公开(公告)号:US11047214B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-29

    申请号:US15419026

    申请日:2017-01-30

    摘要: There is provided a system for analyzing and controlling a productivity of a drilling apparatus. The exemplary system includes a processor and a memory including instructions that cause the processor to perform certain operations. The operations can include receiving information from a control system of the drilling apparatus and determining a key performance metric based on the information. The operations can further include performing a comparison between the key performance metric and at least one other key performance metric. Furthermore, the operations can further include instructing, based on the comparison, the control system to alter the productivity of the drilling apparatus.

    Stators for electrical machines
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    公开(公告)号:US10784745B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-22

    申请号:US15094093

    申请日:2016-04-08

    摘要: A stator for an electrical machine (e.g., a motor or generator) is described. The stator includes a stator core consisting of a plurality of axially adjacent generally annular laminations. The stator has axially extending stator teeth between adjacent pairs of which are formed axially extending stator slots for receiving conductors of a stator winding. At least one of the stator teeth includes an axially extending cooling passageway through which a cooling fluid flows in use. The electrical machine can include means for circulating cooling fluid through the cooling passageway(s) to cool the stacked laminations and means for circulating air around the stator along an air cooling circuit where the circulated air is cooled by the stator laminations and there is no need for a separate heat exchanger.

    Switch module and converter with at least one switch module

    公开(公告)号:US10523017B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-31

    申请号:US15095283

    申请日:2016-04-11

    发明人: Martin Geske

    IPC分类号: H02M1/00 H02J5/00 H02M7/483

    摘要: A switch module and a converter developed with the help of a switch module. The switch module presents two series connections comprising a power semi-conductor switch and a diode and. Parallel to the first series connection a first capacitor is connected. Between the first capacitor and the second series connection at least one intermediate connection is connected. This is designed as quadripole, whereby between both the output connections a second capacitor is connected. The first output connection is connected through a third power semi-conductor switch with the first input connection. The second output connection is connected with the cathode of a third diode, whose anode is connected with the second input connection of the intermediate circuit. With this switch module at least five voltage levels can be set up for an output voltage. For each additionally present intermediate circuit the number of the possible voltage levels increases by two.