ZERO SEQUENCE CURRENT CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PARALLEL POWER CONVERTERS

• US 20150241864A1
• Filed: 02/21/2014
• Published: 08/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology Armaments Bureau MND (Government of The Republic of China)
• Inventors: Chen, Kun-Feng, Liao, Yu-Min, Jen, Kuo-Kuang, You, Guo-Huei
• Application Number:
  US14/186,574
• Publication Number:
  US 20150241864A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/46 Controlling of the sharing of output between the generators, converters, or transformers
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/48 Controlling the sharing of the in-phase component

Abstract

A zero sequence current control apparatus and a zero sequence current control method for parallel power converters are disclosed to overcome the issue of having uniform output power for the parallel operation of a plurality of single module voltage control power converters, and an eCAN BUS acts as a communication interface for transmitting instructions, so that when each of the single module voltage control power converters is operated in the parallel operation, the effect of outputting uniform voltage, current and power can be achieved.

Claims

1. A zero sequence current control apparatus of parallel power converters, comprising:

a control and management system, including an automatic allocation device and a control device;

a plurality of modules;

a local area network, having an input terminal electrically coupled to the automatic allocation device and the control device, and an output terminal communicated with the modules;

wherein, the automatic allocation device locates a host module according to a boot registration sequence of each module, and converts other modules into slave modules, and the automatic allocation device allocates an output voltage, an output current and an output power of the host module and the slave modules.

2. The zero sequence current control apparatus of parallel power converters according to claim 1, wherein the control device and the slave modules send out a control instruction to write numeric values of the output voltage, output current and output power of the host module into the local area network.

3. The zero sequence current control apparatus of parallel power converters according to claim 1, wherein the local area network is an enhanced controller local area network.

4. The zero sequence current control apparatus of parallel power converters according to claim 1, wherein the automatic allocation device comprises:

a plurality of single module voltage control power converters, having an input terminal electrically coupled to a first power supply; and

a plurality of isolation transformers, having an input terminal electrically coupled to an output terminal of the single module voltage control power converters.

5. The zero sequence current control apparatus of parallel power converters according to claim 4, wherein the isolation transformers have an output terminal electrically coupled to a second power supply.

6. The zero sequence current control apparatus of parallel power converters according to claim 5, wherein the second power supply is an alternate current (AC) power supply network.

7. The zero sequence current control apparatus of parallel power converters according to claim 4, wherein the first power supply is a direct current (DC) power supply network.

8. A zero sequence current control method for parallel power converters, comprising the steps of:

initializing a control and management system;

combining a first-group single module voltage control power converter into the system;

registering the first-group single module voltage control power converter;

operating the first-group single module voltage control power converter independently;

writing numeric values of the voltage, current and power of the first-group single module voltage control power converter into the eCAN BUS; and

determining whether the writing of numeric values into the eCAN BUS is completed.

9. The zero sequence current control method for parallel power converters according to claim 8, further comprising the steps of:

combining a second-group single module voltage control power converter into the system;

registering the second-group single module voltage control power converter;

read a mailbox of the eCAN BUS;

detecting whether the zero sequence current of the first-group single module voltage control power converter is zero;

operating the second-group single module voltage control power converter independently; and

performing a compensation control of the second-group single module voltage control power converter.