Power electronic circuit arrangement having plural power converters

• US 5,805,437 A
• Filed: 03/31/1997
• Issued: 09/08/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG (ABB Limited)
• Original Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Gruning, Horst
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Peter S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Riley, Shawn
• Application Number:
  US08/831,496
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• Field of Search: 363/43, 363/63, 363/65, 363/71, 363/129, 363/132, 363/136, 307/82, 307/45, 327/129
• US Class Current: 363/71
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0095 Hybrid converter topologies, e.g. NPC mixed with flying capacitor, thyristor converter mixed with MMC or charge pump mixed with buck
• 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

Abstract

A power electronic circuit arrangement which comprises a first power converter is specified. A second power converter is connected between the load terminals of the first power converter and a load. The negative or positive values of the DC voltage intermediate circuits of the first and second power converters can be added by means of corresponding driving of the power converters. This achieves finer voltage gradation and, consequently, an improved approximation of the resulting output voltage to the sinusoidal waveform.

Claims

1. A power electronic circuit arrangement, comprising:

a first power converter which is connected via a first DC voltage intermediate circuit, having a first intermediate circuit voltage Uzk1, and a first rectifier to a power supply system and which has at least one load terminal switchable between a positive first intermediate circuit voltage +Uzk1, a negative first intermediate circuit voltage -Uzk1 and 0V; and

at least one second power converter which has a second DC voltage intermediate circuit having a second intermediate circuit voltage Uzk2 and which is connected to each load terminal of the first power converter and is connected upstream of a load such that at least one of a positive second intermediate circuit voltage +Uzk2, a negative second intermediate circuit voltage -Uzk2 and 0 V can optionally be added to a voltage value which is switched by the first power converter to the at least one load terminal.

2. The circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first power converter comprises a three-phase two-point invertor and three load terminals.

3. The circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first power converter comprises a three-phase three-point invertor and three load terminals.

4. The circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein each second power converter comprises a bridge circuit which is fed by a second rectifier and has a first and a second bridge path and, correspondingly, a first and a second bridge terminal, the first bridge terminal being connected to the at least one load terminal of the first power converter and the second bridge terminal being connected to the load.

5. The circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first bridge path and the second bridge path are constructed as a two-point invertor.

6. The circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first bridge path is constructed as a two-point invertor and the second bridge path is constructed as a three-point invertor.

7. The circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 4, wherein the second bridge terminal is connected via a filter to a neutral point of potential of the first power converter.

8. The circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 4, wherein the second rectifier is connected via a transformer to the power supply system.

9. The circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one second power converter is operated with pulse duration modulation.

10. The circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first rectifier and the second rectifier are each constructed as a converter bridge, and wherein the second rectifier is driven such that harmonics in the power supply system are compensated.