Power conversion device that performs power conversion between DC circuit and AC circuit

    公开(公告)号:US12199524B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-14

    申请号:US17759875

    申请日:2020-03-11

    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a plurality of leg circuits and a control device. The control device controls an output voltage at a first converter cell, which is controlled not based on the circulating current, based on a first voltage instruction value. The control device controls an output voltage at a second converter cell using a first value based on a deviation between a circulating current and a circulating current instruction value and a second value based on a deviation between a capacitor voltage and a capacitor voltage instruction value in the second converter cell. When the capacitor voltage at the second converter cell is less than a first threshold, the control device linearly combines an auxiliary voltage instruction value including at least one of a DC component and a fundamental AC component of the AC circuit with the first value and the second value.

    Control device
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12068610B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US17603471

    申请日:2019-04-25

    CPC classification number: H02J3/388 H02J3/36 H02M1/0025

    Abstract: A control device includes: a phase error calculation unit to calculate a phase error between a phase of a voltage command for the power converter and a phase of a point-of-interconnection voltage; and an isolated system determination unit to determine whether the AC power system has shifted from an interconnected system to an isolated system, based on the phase error and a magnitude of the point-of-interconnection voltage, the interconnected system being the AC power system connected to a generator, the isolated system being the AC power system not connected to the generator. The isolated system determination unit determines that the AC power system has shifted from the interconnected system to the isolated system, when at least a first condition is met that the phase error is outside a reference range and the magnitude of the point-of-interconnection voltage is greater than a first voltage threshold.

    Power conversion device
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11336169B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-17

    申请号:US17292232

    申请日:2018-12-25

    Abstract: A power converter includes an arm in which a plurality of converter cells are connected in series, each of the converter cells including at least two switching elements, a power storage element and a pair of output terminals. A control device controls the power converter. The converter cell includes a switch to have the converter cell bypassed. When the control device senses failure of the converter cell, it has the failed converter cell bypassed, estimates an output voltage lost by bypassing the failed converter cell, and has a normal converter cell supply the estimated output voltage of the failed converter cell.

    Control device and power conversion device

    公开(公告)号:US12074535B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-27

    申请号:US17439574

    申请日:2019-04-25

    CPC classification number: H02M7/4835 H02J3/36 H02J3/388 H02M1/0025 H02M7/79

    Abstract: A control device includes: a phase generation unit to generate a phase of a voltage command for the power converter; a voltage control unit to generate a voltage value of the voltage command; and a command unit to output the voltage command having the phase and the voltage value to the power converter. The voltage control unit includes: a voltage compensator unit to compute a compensation voltage value, based on a voltage deviation of a point-of-interconnection voltage from a reference voltage; a droop calculator unit to compute a first droop value in accordance with a magnitude of a point-of-interconnection current, when the AC power system is an isolated system, the isolated system being the AC power system not connected to a generator; and a calculation unit to calculate the voltage value of the voltage command, based on a difference between the compensation voltage value and the first droop value.

    Control device and power control system

    公开(公告)号:US11283369B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-22

    申请号:US17044582

    申请日:2018-06-07

    Abstract: A control device for controlling a power source connected to an alternating-current (AC) power system includes: a frequency control unit that controls a frequency of the power source operating in a constant-voltage constant-frequency control scheme; a power calculation unit that calculates, when the frequency control unit varies a frequency of the power source, a variation of an effective power output from the power source; an arithmetic unit that calculates a frequency characteristics constant of the AC power system, based on a variation of the frequency of the power source and the variation of the effective power output from the power source; and a selection unit that selects a control scheme for the power source, based on the frequency characteristics constant of the AC power system.

    Power conversion device
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12057787B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-06

    申请号:US17793697

    申请日:2020-03-11

    CPC classification number: H02M7/49 H02M7/217 H02M1/0009

    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a power conversion circuit unit including a plurality of leg circuits, and a control device. Each of the leg circuits includes a plurality of first converter cells each having a capacitor and connected in series to each other and a plurality of second converter cells each having the capacitor and connected in series to each other. The plurality of first converter cells are controlled not based on a circulating current circulating between the plurality of leg circuits, and the plurality of second converter cells are controlled based on the circulating current. The control device stops a switching operation of at least one second converter cell in the plurality of second converter cells when a voltage at the capacitor in the second converter cell becomes less than a first threshold.

    Power conversion device
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11309787B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-19

    申请号:US16635297

    申请日:2018-06-05

    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a conversion circuit constituted of a plurality of arm circuits and a bypass circuit. The bypass circuit includes a full-wave rectification circuit, a positive-side connection arm, and a negative-side connection arm. The full-wave rectification circuit is connected between a plurality of AC connections, a positive-side intermediate node, and a negative-side intermediate node, and configured to convert AC voltages generated at the plurality of AC connections into a DC voltage across the positive-side intermediate node and the negative-side intermediate node and output the DC voltage. The positive-side connection arm blocks a current in a direction from a positive-side DC terminal toward the positive-side intermediate node. The negative-side connection arm is connected between the negative-side intermediate node and a negative-side DC terminal and blocks a current in a direction from the negative-side intermediate node toward a negative-side DC terminal.

    Power conversion device
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12081138B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-03

    申请号:US17797272

    申请日:2020-03-11

    CPC classification number: H02M7/219 H02M1/08 H02M1/32

    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a power conversion circuit unit including a plurality of leg circuits. Each of the leg circuits includes a plurality of converter cells each having a capacitor and connected in series to each other. Each of the plurality of converter cells is a first converter cell including at least two switching elements or a second converter cell including at least four switching elements. The power conversion device further includes a control device. The control device operates the plurality of the first converter cells that are controlled not based on a circulating current circulating between the plurality of leg circuits as a voltage source that outputs a circulating voltage in a circulation circuit indicating a closed circuit that does not include a DC circuit and an AC circuit, and operates the plurality of the second converter cells to control the circulating current in the circulation circuit.

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