Power system having a voltage regulator with a notch filter

• US 7,778,053 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2006
• Issued: 08/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: American Superconductor Corporation
• Original Assignee: American Superconductor Corporation
• Inventors: Gritter, David J.
• Primary Examiner(s): BEHM, HARRY RAYMOND
• Application Number:
  US11/352,946
• Publication Number:
  US 20070189045A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,646 Days
• Field of Search: 363/42, 363/48, 363/40, 363/41, 307/105, 307/44, 323/207, 327/556
• US Class Current: 363/42
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/14 Arrangements for reducing ripples from dc input or output
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53873 with digital control

Abstract

A control system for an AC line voltage distribution system includes a DC energy storage system and an inverter coupled to the DC energy storage system adapted for coupling to the AC line distribution system. A proportional-integral voltage regulator coupled to the DC energy storage system receives a voltage signal for the DC energy storage system and receives a voltage reference. In an exemplary embodiment, the voltage regulator includes a proportional path and an integral path to receive the DC voltage information and the voltage reference signal information, a filter to remove an AC component having a predetermined frequency contained in the DC voltage signal, and an output terminal to output a control signal with the AC component removed.

Claims

1. A voltage regulator device for a power line, comprising:

a first input terminal to receive a voltage signal for a DC bus and a second input terminal to receive a DC bus voltage reference signal;

a proportional path and an integral path to receive the DC bus voltage information and the voltage reference signal information;

a filter including a programmable notch filter tuned to a predetermined frequency that is twice a fundamental frequency of the power line to remove the predetermined frequency sequence components contained in the DC bus voltage signal; and

an output terminal to provide an output of the voltage regulator device with the predetermined frequency sequence components removed to control an inverter coupled to the DC bus.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the notch filter is implemented as part of a phase locked loop.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein a tuning parameter for the notch filter is derived from a frequency estimate of a phase locked loop locked to a positive sequence component of line voltage.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the filter includes the notch filter that includes a generalized integrator.

5. The device according to claim 1, further including a current regulator to receive the output of the voltage regulator device.

6. The device according to claim 5, further including a DC energy storage system coupled to the DC bus.

7. The device according to claim 6, further including a rectangular to polar converter and a space vector generator to generate gate signals to control the inverter.

8. The device according to claim 1, further including filtering DC bus ripple of about 50V.

9. The device according to claim 1, further including filtering DC bus ripple of about 50V at the predetermined frequency.

10. A control system for an AC power line voltage distribution system, comprising:

a DC energy storage system;

an inverter coupled to the DC energy storage system and adapted for coupling to the AC line distribution system;

a modulator to provide control signals to the inverter; and

a proportional-integral voltage regulator coupled to the DC energy storage system for receiving a voltage signal from the DC energy storage system and adapted for coupling to a voltage reference, the voltage regulator including;

a proportional path and an integral path to receive the DC voltage information and the voltage reference signal information;

a filter including a programming notch filter tuned to a predetermined frequency that is twice a fundamental frequency of the power line to remove the predetermined frequency sequence components contained in the DC bus voltage signal; and

an output terminal to provide an output of the voltage regulator with the sequence components removed for input to a current regulator for generating control signals to control the inverter.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the notch filter is implemented as part of a phase locked loop.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein a tuning parameter for the notch filter is derived from a frequency estimate of a phase locked loop locked to a positive sequence component of line voltage.

13. The system according to claim 10, wherein the notch filter includes a generalized integrator.

14. A method, comprising:

receiving a voltage on a DC bus;

receiving a reference voltage;

processing the DC bus voltage and the reference voltage in a proportional path of a voltage regulator;

processing the DC bus voltage and the reference voltage in an integral path of the voltage regulator;

combining an output of the proportional path and an output of the integral path and removing, using a programmable notch filter tuned to a predetermined frequency that is twice a fundamental frequency of the power line, predetermined frequency sequence components from the combined proportional path output and the integral path output; and

generating an output control signal with an ac component removed to control an inverter coupled to the DC bus.

15. The method according to claim 14, further including removing the ac component with the notch filter in a phase locked loop.

16. The method according to claim 15, further including using a generalized integrator in the phase locked loop.

17. The method according to claim 14, further including providing the output control signal to a current regulator.

18. The method according to claim 14, further including using output control signal to generate gate signals for the inverter.

19. The method according to claim 18, further including using the inverter to enhance performance of an AC line distribution system.