GRID FEED APPARATUS, ENERGY FEED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A GRID FEED APPARATUS

• US 20150043254A1
• Filed: 02/08/2013
• Published: 02/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LTi REEnergy GmbH (Moog Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: LTi REEnergy GmbH (Moog Incorporated)
• Inventors: Preckwinkel, Heiko, Buente, Andreas
• Application Number:
  US14/378,406
• Publication Number:
  US 20150043254A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 363/41
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 17/00 Arrangement or mounting of transmissions in vehicles clutches per se, e.g. construction thereof, F16D; gearing per se, e.g. construction thereof, F16H
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2037/049 Forward-reverse units with forward and reverse gears for achieving multiple forward and reverse gears, e.g. for working machines
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2057/02047 Automatic transmissions
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 3/60 Gearings for reversal only
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 57/02 Gearboxes; Mounting gearing therein
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 30/12 Two-phase, three-phase or polyphase transformers
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0054 Transistor switching losses periodically suspending operation of switching converter in low power mode H02M1/0035
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0077 Plural converter units whose outputs are connected in series
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/4815 Resonant converters H02M7/4811 and H02M7/4826 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/487 Neutral point clamped inverters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/49 Combination of the output voltage waveforms of a plurality of converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/493 the static converters being arranged for operation in parallel
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53806 in a push-pull configuration of the parallel type
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53871 with automatic control of output voltage or current
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/5395 by pulse-width modulation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/56 Power conversion systems, e.g. maximum power point trackers

Abstract

The invention relates to a network feed device (10) for feeding electrical energy from a DC energy source (12) into a three-phase AC supply network (32), where the DC voltage of a DC intermediate circuit (24) is converted by means of at least one inverter unit (14) into a three-phase voltage and is fed by means of a transformer device (16) comprising three network transformer windings (38) into the AC supply network (24). The invention is characterized in that a first winding terminal of the network transformer windings (38) is connected to a half-bridge (30) of a first inverter device (14a), and a second winding terminal of the network transformer windings (38) of the transformer device (16) is connected to a half-bridge of a second inverter device (14b).

In subsidiary aspects, the invention relates to an energy feed system for the connection of a photovoltaic source, a fuel cell source, a battery source or a mechanically operated DC generator to an AC supply network or to an AC consumer, in particular a three-phase motor, and an operating method for energy-efficient voltage feeding.

Claims

1-21. -21. (canceled)

22. Network feed device for feeding electrical energy from at least one DC energy source into a three-phase AC supply network, where the DC voltage of a DC intermediate circuit is converted by means of at least one inverter unit into a three-phase voltage and is fed by means of a transformer device comprising three network transformer windings into the AC supply network, whereby a first winding terminal of the network transformer winding is connected to a half-bridge of a first inverter unit, and a second winding terminal of the network transformer winding of the transformer device is connected to a half-bridge of a second inverter unit, wherein the first inverter unit is operated synchronously with the network, in particular at 50 Hz or 60 Hz, to define the polarity of the supply network voltage to be delivered, and the second inverter unit is operated at a higher-frequency PWM cycle, in particular greater than 500 Hz, for modulation and smoothing of the supply network voltage to be delivered.

23. Network feed device according to claim 22, wherein the transformer unit is a three-phase transformer with separable primary winding terminals accessible from outside, where the two connecting terminals of each primary winding are connectable from outside.

24. Network feed device according to claim 22, wherein a filter and smoothing unit is incorporated between the inverter units and the transformer device, in particular before each primary winding of the transformer device.

25. Network feed device according to claim 24, wherein a filter inductor of the filter and smoothing unit is arranged in series with each primary winding.

26. Network feed device according claim 25, wherein the filter inductor comprises two chokes that are inserted into the forward and reverse phases Li U-L2U, L1V-L2V, LIW-L2W of the primary winding.

27. Network feed device according claim 26, wherein the chokes of the filter inductor of the forward and reverse phases L1U-L2U, L1V-L2V, L1W-L2W have a current-compensated design.

28. Network feed device according to claim 25, wherein the filter inductors are wound on a multi-leg coil carrier, in particular a three-leg coil carrier.

29. Network feed device according to claim 24, wherein two or more inverter units are connected in parallel and operated synchronously to form an inverter unit, where the output phases L11U &

L12U, L1IV &

LI2V, LI1W&

L12W, L2IU &

L22U, L2IV&

L22V and L2IW&

L22W are coupled to one another via chokes.

30. Network feed device according to claim 29, wherein at least the inverter units of the two inverter units and the associated output-side filter and smoothing units are brought together in a common assembly of the double inverter device, and two or more double inverter devices are connected in parallel, where the output phases of the inverter units of the two inverter units included in the double inverter devices are connected to one another.

31. Network feed unit according to claim 22, wherein at least the second inverter unit is an inverter unit with three or more stages with star node.

32. Network feed unit according to claim 22, wherein in the DC intermediate circuit between the DC energy source and the two inverter units, an intermediate circuit capacitor is connected between the positive and negative intermediate circuit potentials and the star node respectively.

33. Network feed device according to claim 22, wherein a switching device for decoupling from the inverter unit and/or for Y-(star) and/or A-(delta) connection of the winding terminals is provided at the first and/or second winding terminals of the network transformer windings.

34. Network feed device according to claim 22, wherein the first inverter unit is connected to a first DC energy source, and the second inverter unit to a second DC energy source.

35. Energy feed system comprising a DC energy source and a mains feed apparatus according to claim 22, wherein the DC energy source is a photovoltaic source, a fuel cell source, a battery source or a mechanically operable generator with rectifier.

36. Method for operating a network feed device according to claim 22, whereby the first and the second inverter unit are operated in a coordinated manner such that the voltage acting on each primary coil of the transformer device is adjustable between an amplitude of 0 V up to the intermediate circuit potential DC+/DC, comprising operating first inverter unit to determine the polarity of the supply network voltage to be delivered synchronously with the network frequency, in particular in a 50 Hz or 60 Hz cycle, and operating the second inverter unit a higher PWM frequency, in particular greater than 500 Hz, for modulation and smoothing of the supply network voltage to be delivered.

37. Method according to claim 36, comprising switching in at least the second inverter unit in at least three voltage stages for PWM-modulated smoothing of the supply network voltage.

38. Method according to claim 36, comprising connecting the parallel-connected inverter units to one another for an increase in power on the output side via a filter and smoothing unit and operating the same synchronously.

39. A network feed device according to claim 22 coupling a photovoltaic source, a fuel cell source, a battery source or a mechanically operable generator to an AC supply network, or for the operation of an AC consumer, in particular an AC motor, and means for operating the inverter unit with a variable frequency corresponding to the speed of rotation of the AC motor.

40. A network feed device according to claim 39 connected for direct energy feed on the secondary side into a medium-voltage network of 1-30 kV.

41. A network feed device according to claim 39 connected for direct energy feed on the secondary side into a medium-voltage network of 1-30 kV.