Control method for direct-current transmission

• US 7,729,138 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2005
• Issued: 06/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Karlecik-Maier, Franz
• Primary Examiner(s): BERHANE, ADOLF D
• Application Number:
  US12/067,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20080212342A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,713 Days
• Field of Search: 363/35, 363/37, 363/51, 363/78, 363/79, 363/85
• US Class Current: 363/37
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/36 Arrangements for transfer of electric power between ac networks via a high-tension dc link
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 5/4585 having a rectifier with controlled elements
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/60 Arrangements for transfer of electric power between AC networks or generators via a high voltage DC link [HVCD]

Abstract

In a method for controlling a rectifier and an inverter, which are connected together by a direct current circuit, a measuring direct current voltage and respectively, a measuring direct current are measured at at least one measuring point of the direct current circuit and are transmitted to a direct current control for controlling the rectifier and/or an inverter control for controlling the inverter. The direct current control controls the rectifier in such a manner that a total of a difference direct current voltage and a differential direct current is minimal and the inverter control of the inverter is controlled in such a manner that the difference between the differential direct current of the differential direct current voltage is minimal. The method is reliable and is economical. Accordingly, the desired flow of the direct current control and the desired flow of the inverter control are identical.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a rectifier and an inverter being connected to one another via a DC circuit, in a field of power distribution and transmission, which comprises the steps of:

measuring a measured DC voltage and a measured direct current at least one measurement point in the DC circuit;

forwarding the measured DC voltage and the measured direct current to at least one of a rectifier control system for controlling the rectifier and an inverter control system for controlling the inverter;

the rectifier control system and the inverter control system each determining a difference between a predetermined nominal DC voltage and the measured DC voltage received, resulting in a difference DC voltage and, furthermore, determining a difference between a nominal direct current and the measured direct current received resulting in a difference direct current, with the difference DC voltage and the difference direct current being in a normalized form;

controlling, via the rectifier control system, the rectifier such that a sum of the difference DC voltage and the difference direct current is minimized;

controlling, via the inverter control system, the inverter such that the difference between the difference direct current and the difference DC voltage is minimized; and

setting the nominal direct current through the rectifier control system and the nominal direct current through the inverter control system to be identical.

2. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises setting the predetermined nominal DC voltage in the rectifier control system and the predetermined nominal DC voltage in the inverter control system to be identical.

3. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises controlling the rectifier and the inverter over an entire operating range of the rectifier and of the inverter, respectively, both on a basis of the difference direct current and on the basis of the difference DC voltage.

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

installing physically the rectifier and the inverter alongside one another forming a back-to-back link; and

recording the measured DC voltage and the measured direct current at the measurement point and being transmitted both to the rectifier control system and to the inverter control system.

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

installing the rectifier and the inverter at least one kilometer away from one another forming a direct-current transmission installation;

recording the measured DC voltage and the measured direct current at the rectifier, resulting in a rectifier measured DC voltage and a rectifier measured direct current;

recording the measured DC voltage and the measured direct current at the inverter, resulting in an inverter measured DC voltage and an inverter measured direct current;

transmitting the rectifier measured DC voltage and the rectifier measured direct current to the rectifier control system; and

transmitting the inverter measured DC voltage and the inverter measured direct current to the inverter control system.

6. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises determining the predetermined nominal DC voltage and the nominal direct current from a required nominal DC power.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the measured direct current, normalized with respect to a rated current, and the measured DC voltage, normalized with respect to a rated voltage, are renormalized with respect to the nominal direct current, likewise normalized with respect to the rated current, and, respectively, with respect to the nominal DC voltage, likewise normalized with respect to the rated voltage, with the difference direct current being calculated as a difference between unity and the measured direct current normalized with respect to the nominal direct current, and with the difference DC voltage being calculated as a difference between unity and the measured DC voltage normalized with respect to the nominal DC voltage.

8. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises:

measuring a measured turn-off angle at the inverter;

transmitting the measured turn-off angle to a gamma control system;

comparing, via the gamma control system, the measured turn-off angle with a nominal turn-off angle; and

producing a DC voltage nominal value being lower than the predetermined nominal DC voltage if the measured turn-off angle is less than the nominal turn-off angle and, with the inverter control system then regulating at the DC voltage nominal value.

9. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises using a limiting regulator for limiting a rectifier regulator in the rectifier control system at a top, such that at least one of a predetermined maximum current and a predetermined maximum voltage are not exceeded.

10. The method according to claim 9, which further comprises limiting, via the limiting regulator, the rectifier regulator when one of:

the measured direct current is greater than a sum of the nominal direct current and a predetermined difference direct-current discrepancy; and

the measured DC voltage is greater than a sum of the nominal DC voltage and a predetermined difference DC voltage discrepancy.

11. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises when the measured DC voltage is falling, reducing a nominal DC power in dependence on the measured DC voltage to a lower value for producing a malfunction nominal DC power, with at least one of the nominal direct current and the predetermined nominal DC voltage being determined from the malfunction nominal DC power rather than from the nominal DC power.