Method and apparatus for improving the voltage quality of secondary power supply unit

• US 6,348,778 B1
• Filed: 02/28/2000
• Issued: 02/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Voss, Leon, Zurowski, Rainer, Weinhold, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Bao Q.
• Application Number:
  US09/514,270
• Time in Patent Office: 722 Days
• Field of Search: 323/207, 323/205, 363/34, 363/37
• US Class Current: 323/207
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/18 Arrangements for adjusting, eliminating or compensating reactive power in networks for adjustment of voltage H02J3/16
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/1814 wherein al least one reactive element is actively controlled by a bridge converter, e.g. unified power flow controllers [UPFC]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/10 Flexible AC transmission systems [FACTS]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/30 Reactive power compensation

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for improving the voltage quality of a secondary power supply unit uses a compensation device with a pulse-controlled power converter which is connected serially to a transmission line through the use of a coupling transformer. Positive and negative phase-sequence system deviations are determined and a basic transmission ratio space-vector is generated from them. Control signals for a pulse-controlled power converter are generated from the basic transmission ratio space-vector through the use of the link voltage of the pulse-controlled power converter. As a result, a compensator voltage is connected serially into the transmission line. A power system voltage of an ideal power supply system is thus generated for a secondary power supply unit from a distorted power system voltage.

Claims

1. A method for improving the voltage quality of a secondary power supply unit, which comprises:

a) providing a compensation device having a pulse-controlled power converter with at least one capacitive storage device, a matching filter, a closed-loop and open-loop control device and an incoming feeder device;

b) serially coupling the compensation device to a power system with a coupling transformer;

c) determining a fundamental positive phase-sequence system deviation of a determined power system voltage space-vector as a function of a predefined positive phase-sequence system setpoint voltage;

d) determining a fundamental negative phase-sequence system deviation of the determined power system voltage space-vector as a function of a predetermined fundamental negative phase-sequence system setpoint-space-vector;

e) determining a basic transmission ratio space-vector as a function of the determined fundamental positive and negative phase-sequence system deviations, of a transformation transmission ratio of the coupling transformer and of a value of a link voltage of the pulse-controlled power converter; and

f) generating control signals for the pulse-controlled power converter of the compensation device as a function of the determined basic transmission ratio space-vector of the link voltage of the pulse-controlled power converter.

2. The method according to claim 1, which comprises:

a) determining at least one complex Fourier coefficient of at least one of the positive and negative phase-sequence systems from a product of a power system voltage space-vector of a secondary power supply unit and a conjugate complex unit space-vector;

b) determining a partial transmision ratio space-vector as a function of the determined complex Fourier coefficient and of a unit space-vector; and

c) vectorially adding the basic transmission ratio space-vector and the partial transmission ratio space-vector to form an overall transmission ratio space-vector.

3. The method according to claim 1, which comprises:

a) determining a current component of a determined compensator current space-vector;

b) determining a phase correction factor as a function of a link voltage actual value and a link voltage setpoint value; and

c) calculating a transmission ratio space-vector by multiplication of the identified current component with the determined phase correction factor.

4. The method according to claim 1, which comprises:

a) determining a fundamental positive phase-sequence system actual-space-vector of the determined voltage space-vector;

b) calculating a fundamental positive phase-sequence system unit-space-vector of the identified fundamental positive phase-sequence system actual-space-vector;

c) determining a fundamental positive phase-sequence system setpoint-space-vector as a function of the fundamental positive phase-sequence system unit-space-vector and a value of a positive phase-sequence system setpoint voltage; and

d) determining the fundamental positive phase-sequence system deviation by comparing the fundamental positive phase-sequence system actual-space-vector with the fundamental positive phase-sequence system setpoint-space-vector.

5. The method according to claim 1, which comprises:

a) determining a fundamental negative phase-sequence system actual-space-vector; and

b) determining the fundamental negative phase-sequence system deviation by comparing the fundamental negative phase-sequence system actual-space-vector with a predefined fundamental negative phase-sequence system setpoint-space-vector.

6. The method according to claim 1, which comprises:

a) determining a correction value by multiplying a reactive displacement power of the fundamental determined from the determined fundamental positive phase-sequence system actual-space-vector and a determined compensator current space-vector, by a constant; and

b) adding the correction value to the predefined positive phase-sequence system setpoint-voltage.

7. An apparatus for improving the voltage quality of a secondary power supply unit, comprising:

a compensation device having a pulse-controlled power converter with at least one capacitive storage device, a matching filter, a closed-loop and open-loop control device and an incoming feeder device;

said closed-loop and open-loop control device having a closed-loop control device for determining a transmission ratio space-vector, and said closed-loop and open-loop control device having a pulse-width modulator with outputs supplying control signals for said pulse-controlled power converter;

a coupling transformer serially coupling said compensator device to a power supply system;

said closed-loop control device having a controller for determining a basic transmission ratio space-vector, said controller having an input side, a positive phase-sequence system channel and a negative phase-sequence system channel on said input side, said positive phase-sequence system channel and said negative phase-sequence system channel having output sides, and an output-side computing device having inputs connected to said output sides of said positive phase-sequence system channel and said negative phase-sequence system channel;

said computing device having an output supplying the basic transmission ratio space-vector, and said computing device receiving a value of a link voltage of said capacitive storage device of said pulse-controlled power converter and a value of a transformer transmission ratio of said coupling transformer; and

said positive phase-sequence system channel and said negative phase-sequence system channel each receiving a determined power system voltage space-vector and each having an output supplying a respective one of a fundamental positive phase-sequence system deviation and a fundamental negative phase-sequence system deviation.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein:

said controller is an initial controller having an output;

said open-loop control device has n further controllers for determining n partial transmission ratio space-vectors, said n further controllers each have a device for forming a complex Fourier coefficient, an I controller, a device for forming a partial transmission ratio space-vector and an output; and

a summation point has inputs connected to said outputs of said n further controllers and to said output of said initial controller for determining a basic transmission ratio space-vector.

9. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said positive phase-sequence system channel has an input side with a first device for discrete Fourier transformation and a second device connected downstream of said first device for inverse discrete Fourier transformation, said second device has an output, and said positive phase-sequence system channel has a comparator with an inverting input and a noninverting input, said inverting input is connected to said output of said second device, and a third device is connected between said output of said second device and said noninverting input for forming a fundamental positive phase-sequence system setpoint-space-vector.

10. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said negative phase-sequence system channel has an input side with a first device for discrete Fourier transformation and a second device downstream of said first device for inverse discrete Fourier transformation, said second device has an output, and said negative phase-sequence system channel has a comparator with a noninverting input connected to said output of said second device and an inverting input receiving a fundamental negative phase-sequence system setpoint-space-vector.

11. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said negative phase-sequence system channel includes:

an input;

an input side with a first comparator having an inverting input connected to said output of said second device for inverse discrete Fourier transformation, a noninverting input connected to said input of said negative phase-sequence system channel, and an output; and

a second comparator with a noninverting input connected to said output of said first comparator and an inverting input receiving a fundamental negative phase-sequence system setpoint-space-vector.

12. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said closed-loop control device determines a transmission ratio space-vector and has a determining device for determining a partial transmission ratio space-vector for an active power transfer, said determining device has an input side with a first device for discrete Fourier transformation and a second device downstream of said first device for inverse discrete Fourier transformation, said second device has an output, said determining device has a link voltage control circuit with an output, and said determining device has an output side with a multiplier having a first input connected to said output of said second device and a second input connected to said output of said control circuit.

13. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said closed-loop control device is a signal processor.