Harmonically modified twelve-pole inverter

• US 5,138,544 A
• Filed: 04/02/1991
• Issued: 08/11/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sundstrand Corporation (Raytheon Technologies Corporation d/b/a RTX)
• Original Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (Brookfield Asset Management Incorporated)
• Inventors: Jessee, Ralph D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Stephan, Steven L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BERHANE, ADOLF D
• Application Number:
  US07/679,417
• Time in Patent Office: 497 Days
• Field of Search: 363/40, 363/43, 363/98, 363/132
• US Class Current: 363/43
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/49 Combination of the output voltage waveforms of a plurality of converters

Abstract

Apparatus and method for a twelve-pole inverter for eliminating all of the relevant low-order harmonic component frequencies, except the fundamental for an AC output from a source of DC input voltage. The inverter circuit provides four separate three-phase sets of constantly phase displaced pole voltages from controlled six-pulse bridge inverter circuits. Additional phase displacements for straddled paired-sets of the pole voltages are introduced with a first and second predetermined phase displacement proportion of 2:1 or 15 degrees. One paired-set of pole voltages is input to a transformer configuration of a wye with a delta, and the other paired-set of pole voltages is input to a neutralizing transformer with a truncated delta paired configuration for low-order cancellation of harmonics. A phase separated composite output circuit connects series aiding and series opposing secondary winding components coupled from the two sets of paired transformer windings to provide coupled fundametal voltages with low-order odd harmonic components eliminated below twenty-three times the fundamental frequency.

Claims

1. A twelve-pole inverter apparatus for a three-phase inverter system which provides a fundamental output voltage adapted to be controlled independently of a source of DC input voltage, said apparatus comprising:

bridge inverter means providing four separate sets of constantly phase displaced pole voltages in two set-pairs constituted by first and second set-pairs of three-phase pole output voltages;

first neutralizing means connected to receive the pole voltages from the first set-pair, and second neutralizing means connected to receive the pole voltages from the second set-pair, said first neutralizing means including at least one pair of neutralizing transformers being connected in a wye with a delta paired configuration to receive the first set-pair of pole voltages from the bridge inverter means for primary windings, and said second neutralizing means including a second set-pair of neutralizing transformers being connected in a truncated delta with a truncated delta paired configuration to receive the second set-pair of pole voltages from the bridge inverter means;

each phase pole voltage in a set-pair being phase rotated or displaced 120 degrees in a periodic cycle, each pole voltage of each half of a set-pair being further phase displaced a first predetermined amount of phase displacement with respect to the other half of each set-pair of pole voltages for the individual phases of respective circuits in said bridge inverter means, and each phase pole voltage of the second set pair being phase displaced one-half the first predetermined amount of phase displacement to straddle respective pole output phase voltages of an individual first set-pair,

said first and second neutralizing means eliminating the low-order harmonic component content so that only those harmonic voltage components of a frequency immediately next adjacent to whole number multiples of twenty-four times fundamental frequency remain, while odd number harmonics of less than twenty-three times the fundamental frequency are cancelled.

thereby to reduce and eliminate the low-order harmonic component content of output voltage of inverter circuit while preserving fundamental component output voltage waveform.

2. The inverter of claim 1 including an output circuit with terminals at which harmonically neutralized fundamental output voltages are measurable, said output circuit including a composite transformer circuit which serially combines aiding and opposing transformer windings being coupled from respective winding pairs of neutralizing transformers.

3. The inverter of claim 1, wherein said bridge inverter means includes two set-pairs of six-pulse bridge inverter circuits which provide the separate sets of phase displaced three-phase pole voltages which serve as input to respective neutralizing transformer input winding connections, the phase displacement between each respective phase of related phases (A-B-C) of one and the other of both set-pairs of bridge inverter circuits being 30 degrees, and the phase displacement between the related phases of the first set-pairs being straddled with respect to the second set-pair.

4. A twelve-pole inverter apparatus for a three-phase inverter system which provides a fundamental output voltage adapted to be controlled independently of a source of DC input voltage, said apparatus comprising:

bridge inverter means providing four separate sets of constantly phase displaced pole voltages in two set-pairs constituted by first and second set-pairs of three-phase pole output voltages;

first neutralizing means connected to receive the pole voltages from the first set-pair, and second neutralizing means connected to receive the pole voltages from the second set-pair, said first neutralizing means including at least one pair of neutralizing transformers being connected in a wye with a delta paired configuration to receive the first set-pair of pole voltages from the bridge inverted means for primary windings, and said second neutralizing means including a second set-pair of neutralizing transformers being connected in a delta with a delta paired configuration to receive the second set-pair of pole voltages from the bridge inverter means,

said delta paired transformer winding configuration is of the type in which a transformer interphase winding is connected serially with a main transformer winding of a different or shifted phase, and the delta paired transformer configuration functions as a truncated type of arrangement such as two truncated delta transformers connected in an opposing paired configuration;

each phase pole voltage in a set-pair being phase rotated or displaced 120 degrees in a periodic cycle, each pole voltage of each half of a set-pair being further phase displaced a first predetermined amount of phase displacement with respect to the other half of each set-pair of pole voltages for the individual phases of respective circuits in said bridge inverter means, and each phase pole voltage of the second set pair being phase displaced one-half the first predetermined amount of phase displacement to straddle respective pole output phase voltages of an individual first set-pair,

thereby to reduce and eliminate the low-order harmonic component content of output voltage of inverter circuit while preserving fundamental component output voltage waveform.

5. A twelve-pole inverter apparatus for a three-phase inverter system which provides a fundamental output voltage adapted to be controlled independently of a source of DC input voltage, said apparatus comprising:

bridge inverter means providing four separate sets of constantly phase displaced pole voltages in two set-pairs constituted by first and second set-pairs of three-phase pole output voltages;

first neutralizing means connected to receive the pole voltages from the first set-pair, and second neutralizing means connected to receive the pole voltages from the second set-pair;

an output circuit with terminals at which harmonically neutralized fundamental output voltages are measurable, said output circuit including a composite transformer circuit which serially combines aiding and opposing transformer windings being coupled from respective winding pairs of neutralizing transformers, said output circuit constituting a transformer coupled closed-wye secondary composite circuit; and

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each phase voltage in a set-pair being phase rotated or displaced 120 degrees in a periodic cycle, each pole voltage of each half of a set-pair being further phase displaced a first predetermined amount of phase displacement with respect to the other half of each set-pair of pole voltages for the individual phases of respective circuits in said bridge inverter means, and each phase pole voltage of the second set pair being phase displaced one-half the first predetermined amount of phase displacement to straddle respective pole output phase voltages of an individual first set-pair,

thereby to reduce and eliminate the low-order harmonic component content of output voltage of inverter circuit while preserving fundamental component output voltage waveform.

6. A twelve-pole inverter apparatus for a thee-phase inverter system which provides a fundamental output voltage adapted to be controlled independently of a source of DC input voltage, said apparatus comprising:

bridge inverter means providing four separate sets of constantly phase displaced pole voltages in two set-pairs constituted by first and second set-pairs of three-phase pole output voltages;

first neutralizing means connected to receive the pole voltages from the first set-pair, and second neutralizing means connected to receive the pole voltages from the second set-pair;

each phase pole voltage in a set-pair being phase rotated or displaced 120 degrees in a periodic cycle, each pole voltage of each half of a set-pair being further phase displaced a first predetermined amount of phase displacement with respect to the other half of each set-pair of pole voltages for the individual phases of respective circuits in said bridge inverter means, and each phase pole voltage of the second set pair being phase displaced one-half the first predetermined amount of phase displacement to straddle respective pole output phase voltages of an individual first set-pair,

an output circuit with terminals at which harmonically neutralized fundamental output voltages are measurable, said output circuit including a composite transformer circuit which serially combines aiding and opposing transformer windings being coupled from respective winding pairs of neutralizing transformers,

said composite transformer output circuit including aiding sense pairs of associated secondary windings and opposing sense pairs of associated secondary windings connected in series with each other, each said respective sensed secondary winding is coupled to a similarly sensed respective phase primary winding of associated neutralizing transformer,

thereby to reduce and eliminate the low-order harmonic component content of output voltage of inverter circuit while preserving fundamental component output voltage waveform.

7. A twelve-pole inverter apparatus for a three-phase inverter system which provides a fundamental output voltage adapted to be controlled independently of a source of DC input voltage, said apparatus comprising:

bridge inverter means providing four separate sets of constantly phase displaced pole voltages in two set-pairs constituted by first and second set-pairs of three-phase pole output voltages, said bridge inverter means include two set-pairs of six-pulse bridge inverter circuits which provide the separate sets of phase displaced three-phase pole voltages which are adapted to serve as input to respective neutralizing transformer input winding connections, the phase displacement between each respective phase of the related phases (A-B-C) of one and the other of both set-pairs of bridge inverter circuits being 30 degrees, and the phase displacement between the related phases of the first set-pairs being straddled with respect to the second set-pair;

first neutralizing means connected to receive the pole voltages from the first set-pair, and second neutralizing means connected to receive the pole voltages from the second set-pair;

each phase pole voltage in a set-pair being phase rotated or displaced 120 degrees in a periodic cycle, each pole voltage of each half of a set-pair being further phase displaced a first predetermined amount of phase displacement with respect to the other half of each set-pair of pole voltages for the individual phases of respective circuits in said bridge inverter means, and each phase pole voltage of the second set pair being phase displaced one-half the first predetermined amount of phase displacement to straddle respective pole output phase voltages of an individual first set-pair, and

said six-pulse circuits are adapted to be switchably controlled by strategic notching for reducing the pole voltage therefrom, within the range of a zoned or positioed half-wave time controlled interval notch,

thereby to reduce and eliminate the low-order harmonic component content of output voltage of inverter circuit while preserving fundamental component output voltage waveform.

8. A method of operating a twelve-pole inverter apparatus for a three-phase inverter system which provides a fundamental output voltage adapted to be controlled independently of a source of DC input voltage, said method comprising:

providing four separate sets of constantly phase displaced pole voltages in two set-pairs from bridge inverter output constituted by first and second set-pairs of three-phase pole voltages;

connecting first neutralizing means to receive the pole voltages from the first set-pair and connecting second neutralizing means to receive the pole voltages from the second set-pair, said connecting of said first and second neutralizing means eliminating the low-order harmonic components so that only those harmonic voltage components of a frequency immediately next adjacent to whole number multiples of twenty-four times the fundamental frequency remain, while odd number harmonics of less than twenty-three times the fundamental frequency are cancelled;

additionally rotating each phase pole voltage in a set-pair, after already being phase rotated or displaced 120 degrees in a periodic cycle, so that each pole voltage of each half of a set-pair is further phase displaced a first predetermined amount of phase displacement with respect to other half of each set-pair of pole voltages for individual phases, so that each phase pole voltage of the second set-pair is phase displaced one-half the first predetermined amount of phase displacement to straddle respective pole phase voltages of the individual first set-pair,

said connecting the first neutralizing means includes connecting at least one pair of neutralizing transformers in a wye with a delta paired configuration to receive the first set-pair of pole voltages from the bridge inverter output means for primary windings, and connecting said second neutralizing means includes connecting a second set-pair of neutralizing transformers in a truncated delta with a truncated delta paired configuration to receive the second set-pair of pole voltages from the bridge inverter output,

thereby reducing and eliminating low-order harmonic component content, below twenty-three times fundamental frequency of the output voltage of inverter circuit, while preserving fundamental component output voltage waveform.

9. The method of operating the inverter of claim 8 including connecting an output circuit measuring harmonically neutralized fundamental output voltages, said output circuit serially combining in a composite transformer circuit with aiding and opposing transformer windings coupled from the respective winding pairs of neutralizing transformers.

10. The method of operating the inverter of claim 8, wherein the step of connecting separate sets of phase displaced three-phase pole voltages to respective neutralizing means provides the phase displacement between each respective phase of related phases in an ABC rotation with one and other of both set-pairs being 30 degrees, and straddling the phase displacement between the related phases of the first set-pair being 15 degrees with respect to the second set-pair.

11. A method of operating a twelve-pole inverter apparatus for a three-phase inverter system which provides a fundamental output voltage adapted to be controlled independently of a source of DC input voltage, said method comprising:

providing four separate sets of constantly phase displaced pole voltages in two set-pairs from bridge inverter output constituted by first and second set-pairs of three-phase pole voltages;

connecting first neutralizing means to receive the pole voltages from the first set-pair and connecting second neutralizing means to receive the pole voltages from the second set-pair, the connecting of the first neutralizing means includes connecting at least one pair of neutralizing transformers in a wye with a delta paired configuration to receive the first set-pair of pole voltages from the bridge inverter output means for primary windings, and connecting said second neutralizing means includes connecting a second set-pair of neutralizing transformers in a delta with a delta paired configuration, so that connecting the delta paired transformer winding configuration connects a transformer interphase winding serially with a main transformer winding of a different or shifted phase;

and operating delta paired transformer configuration as a truncated type of arrangement such as two truncated delta transformers connected in an opposing pair configuration in order to receive the second set-pair of pole voltages from the bridge inverter output;

additionally rotating each phase pole voltage in a set-pair, after already being phase rotated or displaced 120 degrees in a periodic cycle, so that each pole voltage of each half of a set-pair is further phase displaced a first predetermined amount of phase displacement with respect to other half of each set-pair of pole voltages for individual phases, so that each phase pole voltage of the second set-pair is phase displaced one-half the first predetermined amount of phase displacement to straddle respective pole phase voltages of the individual first set-pair,

thereby reducing and eliminating low-order harmonic component content, below twenty-three times fundamental frequency of the output voltage of inverter circuit, while preserving fundamental component output voltage waveform.

12. A method of operating a twelve-pole inverter apparatus for a three-phase inverter system which provides a fundamental output voltage adapted to be controller independently of a source of DC input voltage, said method comprising:

providing four separate sets of constantly phase displaced pole voltages in two set-pairs from bridge inverter output constituted by first and second set-pairs of three-phase pole voltages;

connecting first neutralizing means to receive the pole voltages from the first set-pair and connecting second neutralizing means to receive the pole voltages from the second set-pair, the step of connecting separate sets of phase displaced three-phase pole voltages to respective neutralizing means providing the phase displacement between each respective phase of related phase in an ABC rotation with one and other of both set-pairs being 30 degrees;

additionally rotating each phase pole voltage in a set-pair, after already being phase rotated or displaced 120 degrees in a periodic cycle, so that each pole voltage of each half of a set-pair is further phase displaced a first predetermined amount of phase displacement with respect to other half of each set-pair of pole voltages for individual phases;

so that each phase pole voltage of the second set-pair is phase displaced one-half the first predetermined amount of phase displacement to straddle respective pole phase voltages of the individual first set-pair, the straddling of the phase displacement between the related phases of the first set-pair being 15 degrees with respect to the second set-pair;

and, the step of providing the pole voltages being adapted for switchably controlling by strategic notching for reducing the output pole voltage therefrom, within the range of a zoned or positioned half-wave time controlled interval notch,

thereby reducing and eliminating low-order harmonic component content, below twenty-three times fundamental frequency of the output voltage of inverter circuit, while preserving fundamental component output voltage waveform.