System for stabilizing a power supply system

• US 6,023,152 A
• Filed: 04/13/1998
• Issued: 02/08/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Piller GmbH (Langley Holdings PLC)
• Original Assignee: Piller GmbH (Langley Holdings PLC)
• Inventors: Sachs, Klaus, Schrader-Hausmann, Uwe, Darrelmann, Hilmar, Briest, Ralf
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Peter S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel, Rajnikant B.
• Application Number:
  US09/059,470
• Time in Patent Office: 666 Days
• Field of Search: 323/207, 323/201, 323/348, 363/56, 363/98, 363/132, 307/57, 307/66
• US Class Current: 323/207
• CPC Class Codes: B30B 15/148 Electrical control arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/30 using dynamo-electric machines coupled to flywheels
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/025 for power storage
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/16 Mechanical energy storage, e.g. flywheels or pressurised fluids

Abstract

In order to provide a system for stabilizing a power supply system comprising a choke, which connects the power supply system to a mains power feed, a converter system connected to the power supply system and having a converter machine with a rotor and at least one three-phase winding, which is in a position to stabilize the voltage in the power supply system to a specific value it is suggested that the converter system comprise a flywheel storage means with a synchronous machine and a flywheel coupled thereto, that the converter system have a static converter system, with which the flywheel storage means can be coupled to the converter machine such that the flywheel storage means can draw power from the converter machine or supply power to it, and that a control be provided which detects the voltage of the power supply system and controls the static converter system such that the converter machine stabilizes the voltage of the power supply system to a predeterminable value by drawing or supplying power.

Claims

1. Apparatus for stabilizing the voltage of a power supply system having at least one load connected thereto, said apparatus including a choke unit for connecting said power supply system to a mains power system and a converter system for stabilizing the power supply system voltage, said converter system comprising:

a converter machine having a rotor and at least one three phase winding, one three phase winding of said converter machine being coupled to said power supply system;

a voltage controller adapted to detect said power supply system voltage and control said converter machine to maintain said voltage at a predetermined value;

a flywheel storage unit including a synchronous machine and a flywheel coupled thereto;

a static converter unit coupling the synchronous machine of said flywheel unit and one three phase winding of said converter machine to exchange real power between the flywheel unit and converter machine by changing the speed of said flywheel; and

a converter controller, responsive to at least one electric parameter of said power supply system and of said mains power system, to control said static converter unit such that the flywheel storage unit supports said converter machine in stabilizing the power supply system voltage by drawing real power from the converter machine or supplying real power to the converter machine.

2. Apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the static converter unit comprises at least one static converter circuit with two static converters coupled via a direct current link.

3. Apparatus as defined in claim 2, wherein each of the static converters is adapted to be switched between a rectifier function and an inverter function.

4. Apparatus as defined in claim 2, wherein the static converters are controllable by the converter controller such that in one static converter circuit one of the static converters operates in a rectifier function and the other in an inverter function.

5. Apparatus as defined in claim 2, wherein the static converter unit comprises several static converter circuits connected in parallel.

6. Apparatus as defined in claim 5, wherein the converter controller controls said static converters of one static converter circuit for supplying power to the converter machine or drawing power from the converter machine.

7. Apparatus as defined in claim 2, wherein a choke is arranged in the direct current link of each static converter circuit.

8. Apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein:

the choke between the mains power system and the power supply system comprises a coupling choke; and

the converter machine is connected to an intermediate tap of the coupling choke.

9. Apparatus as defined in claim 8, wherein a counterreactance of the coupling choke corresponds approximately to a subtransient reactance of the converter machine.

10. Apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein a voltage generated by the converter machine is adapted to be controlled via an exciter winding of the rotor.

11. Apparatus as defined in claim 10, wherein the exciter winding is adapted to be excited in a brushless manner.

12. Apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein excitation of the converter machine is controlled in accordance with the power supply system voltage.

13. Apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the converter machine has a single three-phase winding connected to the power supply system and to the static converter unit.

14. Apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the converter machine has a first three phase winding connected to said power supply system and a second three-phase winding connected to said static converter unit.

15. Apparatus as defined in claim 14, wherein the first three-phase winding and the second three-phase winding have the same number of poles.

16. Apparatus as defined in claim 14, wherein the first three-phase winding and the second three-phase winding are arranged in a common pack.

17. Apparatus as defined in claim 16, wherein the first three-phase winding and the second three-phase winding are arranged in separate slots.

18. Apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the rotor has an attenuator winding.

19. Apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein said flywheel rotates about a vertical axis.

20. Apparatus as defined in claim 19, wherein the flywheel is suspended in a bearing.

21. Apparatus as defined in claim 20, wherein said bearing comprises a magnetic bearing.

22. Apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein a rotor of the synchronous machine of the flywheel unit is seated on a shaft of the flywheel.

23. Apparatus as defined in claim 22, wherein the flywheel is arranged on a side of the rotor located opposite the magnetic bearing.

24. Apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein an exciting machine is associated with the synchronous machine of the flywheel unit.

25. Apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the converter system supplies the entire power consumed in the power supply system during any failure of the mains power feed to said power supply system.