Power line conditioner using cascade multilevel inverters for voltage regulation, reactive power correction, and harmonic filtering
First Claim
1. A power line conditioner operative for:
- detecting a harmonic component in current flowing in an electric power line;
computing a control voltage for extracting the harmonic component from the current flowing in the electric power line;
computing a set of triggering phase angles for producing a quasi-square wave approximation of the control voltage;
receiving a direct-current power source feedback signal representative of a continually obtained fully-charged voltage level in a plurality of direct-current power sources of a cascade multi-level inverter;
based on the direct-current power source feedback signal, computing a direct-current phase angle offset for continually obtaining a desired fully-charged voltage level in the direct-current power sources;
driving the cascade multi-level inverter to produce an output voltage corresponding to the quasi-square wave approximation of the control voltage adjusted by the direct-current phase angle offset; and
supplying the output voltage to the electric power line to substantially extract the harmonic component from the current flowing in the electric power line.
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Abstract
A power line conditioner using cascade multilevel inverter used for voltage regulation, reactive power (var) compensation and harmonic filtering, including the control schemes for operating the cascade inverter for voltage regulation and harmonic filtering in distribution systems. The cascade M-level inverter consists of (M-1)/2 H-bridges in which each bridge has its own separate DC source. This new inverter (1) can generate almost sinusoidal waveform voltage with only one time switching per line cycle, (2) can eliminate transformers of multipulse inverters used in the conventional static VAR compensators, and (3) makes possible direct connection to the 13.8 kV power distribution system in parallel and series without any transformer. In other words, the power line conditioner is much more efficient and more suitable to VAR compensation and harmonic filtering of distribution systems than traditional multipulse and pulse width modulation (PWM) inverters. It has been shown that the new inverter is specially suited for simultaneous VAR compensation and harmonic filtering.
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34 Claims
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1. A power line conditioner operative for:
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detecting a harmonic component in current flowing in an electric power line; computing a control voltage for extracting the harmonic component from the current flowing in the electric power line; computing a set of triggering phase angles for producing a quasi-square wave approximation of the control voltage; receiving a direct-current power source feedback signal representative of a continually obtained fully-charged voltage level in a plurality of direct-current power sources of a cascade multi-level inverter; based on the direct-current power source feedback signal, computing a direct-current phase angle offset for continually obtaining a desired fully-charged voltage level in the direct-current power sources; driving the cascade multi-level inverter to produce an output voltage corresponding to the quasi-square wave approximation of the control voltage adjusted by the direct-current phase angle offset; and supplying the output voltage to the electric power line to substantially extract the harmonic component from the current flowing in the electric power line. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A power line conditioner comprising:
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a terminal for connecting the power line conditioner to the electric power line; a current sensor for producing a load current signal representative of the current flowing in the electric power line; a current feedback signal for representing the current flowing into the power line conditioner; a voltage feedback signal for representing the voltage at the terminal; a multi-level cascade inverter having a series-connected full-bridge inverter including a separate direct-current power source for each cascade level; a direct-current feedback signal for representing a continually obtained fully-charged voltage level in the direct-current power sources of the multi-level cascade inverter; and a control system for; receiving the load current signal, the direct-current feedback signal, the current feedback signal, and the voltage feedback signal, detecting a harmonic component in the current flowing in the electric power line, computing an error signal by comparing the current feedback signal to the harmonic component of the current flowing in the electric power line, computing a control voltage by combining the voltage feedback signal with the error signal adjusted by a gain, based on the direct-current power source feedback signal, computing a direct-current phase angle offset for continually obtaining a desired fully-charged voltage level in the direct-current power sources, and driving the multi-level cascade inverter to produce an output voltage at the terminal that approximates the control voltage adjusted by the direct-current phase angle offset to substantially extract the harmonic component from the current flowing in the electric power line while continually obtaining the desired fully-charged voltage level in the direct-current power sources. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method for conditioning electric power flowing in an electric power line, comprising the steps of:
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receiving a load current signal representing the current flowing in the electric power line; receiving a current feedback signal representing the current flowing into a power line conditioner connected to the electric power line at a terminal; receiving a voltage feedback signal representing the voltage at the terminal; receiving a direct-current feedback signal representing a continually obtained fully-charged voltage level in direct-current power sources of a multi-level cascade inverter within the power line conditioner; detecting a harmonic component in the current flowing in the electric power line; computing an error signal by comparing the current feedback signal to the harmonic component of the current flowing in the electric power line; computing a control voltage by combining the voltage feedback signal with the error signal adjusted by a gain; based on the direct-current power source feedback signal, computing a direct-current phase angle offset for continually obtaining a desired fully-charged voltage level in the direct-current power sources; and driving the multi-level cascade inverter to produce an output voltage at the terminal that approximates the control voltage adjusted by the direct-current phase angle offset to substantially extract the harmonic component from the current flowing in the electric power line while continually obtaining the desired fully-charged voltage level in the direct-current power sources. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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