Active power conditioner for AC load characteristics

• US 20070076451A1
• Filed: 08/11/2006
• Published: 04/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ablerex Electronics Company Limited (Ablerex Overseas Corporation Limited)
• Original Assignee: UIS Abler Electronics Company Limited
• Inventors: Hsu, Wen-Pin, Kuo, Yu-Ting, Feng, Ya-Tsung, Chou, Hung-Liang, Wu, Chin-Chang
• Granted Patent: US 7,446,511 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 363/39
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/1842 wherein at least one reactive element is actively controlled by a bridge converter, e.g. active filters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/20 Active power filtering [APF]

Abstract

An active power conditioner, connecting with a load and a power source in parallel, includes a DC power capacitor, a power converter, a high-frequency filter and a control circuit. The control circuit detects the voltage of the DC power capacitor and the current of the power source, thereby performing a closed loop control to stabilize the voltage of the DC power capacitor and performing a feed forward control to generate a driving signal for driving the power converter. The power converter actuates the DC power capacitor to supply a current via the high-frequency filter to reduce the reactive and harmonic components of load current. The load is converted to the linear resistance characteristic, observed from the power source side.

Claims

1. An active power conditioner, said active power conditioner connected with a load and a power source in parallel, comprising:

a DC power capacitor providing a stabilized dc voltage;

a power converter configured by a bridge power electronic switch set, the power converter having a DC side connected with the DC power capacitor, and an AC side;

a high-frequency filter connected with the AC side of the power converter, the high-frequency filter filtering high-frequency harmonics caused by switching operation of the power converter; and

a control circuit controlling the power electronic switch set of the power converter, the control circuit only detecting a voltage of the DC power capacitor and a current of the power source to generate driving signals for the power converter;

wherein the driving signals generated from the control circuit actuates the power electronic switch set of the power converter to switch the voltage built by the DC power capacitor that supplies a current via the high-frequency filter, the current supplied from the active power conditioner reduces the harmonic and reactive currents of the load such that a current supplied from the power source is a sinusoidal waveform and approximates in phase with the voltage of the power source.

2. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 1, wherein the power converter is a single-phase power converter, a three-phase, three-wire power converter or a three-phase, four-wire power converter.

3. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 1, wherein the control circuit detects the voltage of a DC power capacitor for performing a closed-loop control, and detects the current of the power source for performing a feed forward control.

4. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 1, wherein the high-frequency filter is an inductor set.

5. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 4, wherein the control circuit includes a voltage detector, a first subtractor, a controller, a second subtractor, a current detector, a multiplier and a pulse width modulation circuit.

6. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 5, wherein the voltage detector is used to detect the voltage of the DC power capacitor.

7. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 5, wherein the current detector is used to detect the current of the power source.

8. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 4, wherein the control circuit includes a voltage detector, a first subtractor, a controller, a second subtractor, a current detector, a band-pass filter, a multiplier, a third subtractor, an amplifier, an adder and a pulse width modulation circuit.

9. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 8, wherein the voltage detector is used to detect the voltage of the DC power capacitor.

10. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 8, wherein the current detector is used to detect the current of the power source.

11. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 8, wherein the active power conditioner is used to separately process fundamental and harmonic components of the detected current of the power source.

12. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 1, wherein the high-frequency filter is an inductor-capacitor-inductor set.

13. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 12, wherein the control circuit includes a voltage detector, a first subtractor, a controller, a second subtractor, a first current detector, a second current detector, a third subtractor, a multiplier, a fourth subtractor, an amplifier, an adder and a pulse width modulation circuit.

14. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 13, wherein the voltage detector is used to detect the voltage of the DC power capacitor.

15. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 13, wherein the first current detector is used to detect the current of the power source.

16. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 13, wherein the second current detector is used to detect a current of a filtering capacitor of the high-frequency filter.

17. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 12, wherein the control circuit includes a voltage detector, a first subtractor, a controller, a second subtractor, a first current detector, a second current detector, a third subtractor, a band-pass filter, a multiplier, a fourth subtractor an amplifier and a pulse width modulation circuit.

18. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 17, wherein the voltage detector is used to detect the voltage of the DC power capacitor.

19. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 17, wherein the first current detector is used to detect the current of the power source.

20. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 17, wherein the second current detector is used to detect a current of a filtering capacitor of the high-frequency filter.

21. The active power conditioner as defined in claim 17, wherein the active power conditioner is used to separately process fundamental and harmonic components of a subtracted result of detected currents of the power source and a filtering capacitor of the high-frequency filter.