DISTRIBUTED POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM

• US 20120262957A1
• Filed: 10/11/2011
• Published: 10/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Electric Company Limited (Fuji Electric Systems Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Electric Company Limited (Fuji Electric Systems Company Limited)
• Inventors: FUJII, Kansuke, YAMADA, Toshiya, UMEZAWA, Kazuyoshi, KATOH, Masaki, KATAYAMA, Motohiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,743,571 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 363/41
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/24 of photovoltaic origin
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/28 The renewable source being wind energy
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/01 Arrangements for reducing harmonics or ripples
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/381 Dispersed generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/44 with means for ensuring correct phase sequence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/56 Power conversion systems, e.g. maximum power point trackers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/76 Power conversion electric or electronic aspects
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/40 Arrangements for reducing harmonics

Abstract

A distributed power supply system in which no simultaneous disconnection from the system occurs when a system voltage momentarily drops is provided. It includes an inverter circuit that converts a direct current power generated by a direct current power supply and that supplies the alternating current power to an alternating current power supply power system, and an inverter control circuit for carrying out PWM control of the inverter circuit, wherein the inverter control circuit includes a three-phase voltage command signal generation unit, that is configured of a three-phase fundamental wave signal generation unit that generates three-phase fundamental wave signals from two phase components of voltage detected by a voltage detector, and a third harmonic signal generation unit that adds together third harmonic components of respective phases, having a predetermined amplitude, generated based on the three-phase fundamental wave signals.

Claims

1. A distributed power supply system, comprising:

an inverter circuit that converts a direct current power generated by a direct current power supply to an alternating current power, and that supplies the alternating current power to a power system having a three-phase alternating current power supply;

a voltage detector that detects system voltage of the power system; and

an inverter control circuit for carrying out a PWM control by the inverter circuit,

wherein the inverter control circuit includes a three-phase voltage command signal generation unit that comprises;

a three-phase fundamental wave command signal generation unit that generates three-phase fundamental wave command signals from two phase components of voltage detected by the voltage detector; and

a third harmonic signal generation unit that adds together respective third harmonics of said three phase fundamental wave command signals each having a predetermined amplitude that are calculated based on said three-phase fundamental wave command signals to generate a third harmonic signal,

wherein the three-phase voltage command signal generation unit adds said third harmonic signal to the three-phase fundamental wave command signals, respectively, thereby generating three-phase voltage command signals.

2. The distributed power supply system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a filter circuit between the alternating current power supply and inverter circuit,

wherein the three-phase fundamental wave command signal generation unit includes;

a band pass filter unit that extracts a fundamental wave component from a voltage detected by the voltage detector; and

a phase adjustment unit that adjusts a phase difference between input and output voltages caused by phase characteristics of the filter circuit.

3. The distributed power supply system according to claim 2, wherein the third harmonic signal generation unit generates a third harmonic for each phase based on the fundamental wave command signals output by the three-phase fundamental wave command signal generation unit, and adds together the generated third harmonics of respective phases in generating the third harmonic command signal.

4. An inverter control circuit for PWM control of an inverter circuit that converts a direct current power generated by a direct current power supply to an alternating current power for supplying to a power system having a three-phase alternating current power supply, the inverter control circuit comprising:

a three-phase voltage command signal generation unit including;

a three-phase fundamental wave command signal generation unit that generates three-phase fundamental wave command signals from system voltage of the power system detected by a voltage detector, and

a third harmonic signal generation unit that derives a third harmonic for each phase component of the three-phase fundamental wave command signals, and adds said third harmonics of all of the phases together, based on which said third harmonic signal generation units further generates a third harmonic signal; and

an adder that adds said third harmonic signal to the three-phase fundamental wave command signals, respectively, to generate three-phase voltage command signals to be used in the PWM control of the inverter circuit.