POWER CONVERSION DEVICE

• US 20170214334A1
• Filed: 07/23/2015
• Published: 07/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: TANAKA, Miwako, FUJII, Toshiyuki, MUKUNOKI, Kaho, MORI, Osamu, TAMAI, Shinzo, FUNAHASHI, Sadao, HOSOKAWA, Yasuhiko, HIGASHI, Kotaro
• Granted Patent: US 9,806,630 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/12 Arrangements for reducing harmonics from ac input or output
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/217 using semiconductor devices only
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/483 Converters with outputs that each can have more than two voltages levels
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/4835 comprising two or more cells, each including a switchable capacitor, the capacitors having a nominal charge voltage which corresponds to a given fraction of the input voltage, and the capacitors being selectively connected in series to determine the instantaneous output voltage

Abstract

A power conversion device performs power conversion between three-phase AC, and DC, and includes a positive arm and a negative arm for each phase, each of which includes one or more converter cells connected in series. A voltage command generating unit in a control device includes an AC current control unit, a circulating current control unit, and a command distributing unit, and generates a positive arm voltage command and a negative arm voltage command for each phase. In the circulating current control unit, a compensator calculates a first control command so that circulating current for each phase approaches a circulating current command value, a suppression unit generates a second control command so as to suppress a 2f component and a 4f component contained in the first control command, and then the first control command and the second control command are combined to generate a circulation control command.

Claims

1. A power conversion device comprising:

a power converter for performing power conversion between three-phase AC, and DC, the power converter including a plurality of leg circuits each having a positive arm and a negative arm connected in series, outputs of the positive arm and the negative arm being connected to each phase AC line, the plurality of leg circuits being connected in parallel between positive and negative DC buses; and

a control device for control ling the power converter, wherein

each of the positive arm and the negative arm of each leg circuit is composed of one or a plurality of converter cells connected in series and including;

a series unit of a plurality of semiconductor switching elements connected in series to each other; and

a DC capacitor connected in parallel to the series unit,

the control device includes a voltage command generating unit for generating a first voltage command for the positive arm and a second voltage command for the negative arm, to perform output control for each converter cell in the positive arm and the negative arm by PWM control,

the voltage command generating unit includes;

an AC current control unit for generating an AC control command for controlling an AC current component flowing through each phase AC line;

a circulating current control unit for calculating a circulation control command for controlling a circulating current component, for each phase which circulates between the leg circuit; and

a command distributing unit for determining the first voltage command and the second voltage command on the basis of the AC control command, the circulation control command, and a voltage command value for voltage between the DC buses.

the circulating current control unit includes;

a compensator for calculating a first control command so that circulating current for each phase which circulates between the leg circuits approaches a circulating current command value; and

a suppression unit for generating a second control command for suppressing at least one of a double-frequency component and a quadruple-frequency component of an AC fundamental wave, which are contained in the calculated first control command, and

the circulating current control unit calculates the circulation control command by combining the first control command and the second control command.

2. The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the suppression unit includes a first cosine compensator and a first sine compensator which perform calculations so as to respectively suppress two types of components calculated by multiplying the first control command by each of a cosine and a sine of a double phase of the AC fundamental wave, and

the suppression unit generates the second control command on the basis of a voltage command obtained by combining two types of results obtained by multiplying again results of the calculations of the first cosine compensator and the first sine compensator by a cosine and a sine of the double phase, respectively.

3. The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the suppression unit includes a second cosine compensator and a second sine compensator which perform calculations so as to respectively suppress two types of components calculated by multiplying the first control command by each of a cosine and a sine of a quadruple phase of the AC fundamental wave, and

the suppression arm generates the second control command on the basis of a voltage command obtained by combining two types of results obtained by multiplying again results of the calculations of the second cosine compensator and the second sine compensator by a cosine and a sine of the quadruple phase, respectively.

4. The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the suppression unit includes:

a first rotating coordinate conversion unit for performing totaling coordinate conversion of the first control command, using a double phase of the AC fundamental wave;

a compensator for performing calculation so as to suppress a component outputted from the first rotating coordinate conversion unit; and

a first stationary coordinate conversion unit for performing stationary coordinate conversion of a result of the calculation of the compensator, using the double phase, and

the suppression unit generates the second control command on the basis of output of the first stationary coordinate conversion unit.

5. The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the suppression unit includes:

a second rotating coordinate conversion unit for performing rotating coordinate conversion of the first control command, using a quadruple phase of the AC fundamental wave;

a compensator for performing calculation so as to suppress a component outputted from the second rotating coordinate conversion unit; and

a second stationary coordinate conversion unit for performing stationary coordinate conversion of a result of the calculation of the compensator, using the quadruple phase, and

the suppression unit generates the second control command on the basis of output of the second stationary coordinate conversion unit.

6. The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the compensator for calculating the first control command uses proportional control, and the suppression unit for generating the second control command uses integral control.

7. The power conversion device according claim 1, wherein

a connection point between the positive arm and the negative arm in each leg circuit is connected to each phase AC line.

8. The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

a reactor is provided in series to only one of the positive arm and the negative arm in each leg circuit, or reactors having different reactances are respectively provided in series in the positive arm and the negative arm.

9. The power conversion device according to claim 8, wherein

the reactor is provided in series in only the negative arm of each leg circuit.

10. The power conversion device-according to claim 9, wherein the reactor is provided on a negative side of the converter cell in the negative arm.

11. The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the command distributing unit determines the first voltage command arid the second voltage command by subtracting voltage drop portions due to inductance components in the positive arm and the negative arm from voltages assigned as outputs of the positive arm and the negative arm, respectively.

12. The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

each phase AC line is connected to a three-phase AC circuit, and

the command distributing unit determines the first voltage command and the second voltage command, using each phase voltage of the three-phase AC circuit as a feedforward term.

13. The power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein

the power converter is connected to a DC grid via the positive and negative DC buses.

14. The power conversion device according to claim 2, wherein

the suppression unit includes a second cosine compensator and a second sine compensator which perform calculations so as to respectively suppress two types of components calculated by multiplying the first control command by each o f a cosine and a sine of a quadruple phase of the AC fundamental wave, and

the suppression unit generates the second control command on the basis of a voltage command obtained by combining two types of results obtained by multiplying again results of the calculations of the second cosine compensator and the second sine compensator by a cosine and a sine of the quadruple phase, respectively.

15. The power conversion device according to claim 4, wherein

the suppression unit includes:

a second rotating coordinate conversion unit for performing rotating coordinate conversion of the first control command, using a quadruple phase of the AC fundamental wave;

a compensator for performing calculation so as to suppress a component outputted from the second rotating coordinate conversion unit; and

a second stationary coordinate conversion unit for performing stationary coordinate conversion of a result of the calculation of the compensator, using fee quadruple phase, and

the suppression unit generates the second control command on the basis of output of the second stationary coordinate conversion unit.