Abstract:
Provided is an approach for active control of cross currents flowing among multiple paralleled converters. Control of cross currents is achieved by using at least one proportional-integral (PI) controller and at least one resonant controller to target several selected dominant harmonics with infinite gains to ensure elimination of targeted harmonic cross currents in steady state. The cross currents are decomposed by into (1) common mode and differential mode components or (2) current phase domain components and each component is suppressed to a value approximately near zero using the controller. Also provided is a device comprises instructions, that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, which regulate and suppress cross current within a power system.
Abstract:
Provided is an approach for active control of cross currents flowing among multiple paralleled converters. Control of cross currents is achieved by using at least one proportional-integral (PI) controller and at least one resonant controller to target several selected dominant harmonics with infinite gains to ensure elimination of targeted harmonic cross currents in steady state. The cross currents are decomposed by into (1) common mode and differential mode components or (2) current phase domain components and each component is suppressed to a value approximately near zero using the controller. Also provided is a device comprises instructions, that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, which regulate and suppress cross current within a power system.
Abstract:
A method is disclosed to protect a power converter arrangement with a power converter that has a DC side that is connected to a DC intermediate circuit, an AC side, and controllable switches that can be controllably switched at a high frequency to invert the DC voltage of the DC intermediate circuit into an AC voltage. A protective device that can be activated and deactivated is provided to protect the power converter from overload by connecting an external thyristor rectifier bridge with a brake resistor (Rb ext) to the AC side of the power converter. If a predetermined error situation is detected, the external thyristors are triggered to turn on, to activate the protective device. If it is detected that the predetermined error situation has disappeared, the external thyristors are turned off. A power converter arrangement with a device to protect against overload is also disclosed.
Abstract:
An optimized structure of an arm capacitor voltage balance controller based on chain links of the H-bridge module that achieves enhanced performance of an arm capacitor voltage balance control in all operational conditions, even with highly dynamic loads. Such a controller has application in three-phase STATCOM converters, and may be structured so as to seamlessly integrate feedforward and feedback controls with inverse maps used for calculation of the zero sequence reference voltage injection(s) (for star and delta STATCOM topologies).