Power supply device

• US 8,476,854 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2009
• Issued: 07/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Innomotics GmbH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Hiller, Marc, Sommer, Rainer, Blcher, Bernd
• Primary Examiner(s): Benson, Walter
• Assistant Examiner(s): LUO, DAVID S
• Application Number:
  US12/991,277
• Publication Number:
  US 20110089873A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,558 Days
• Field of Search: 318/400.3, 318/400.01, 318/400.17, 318/400.21, 318/700
• US Class Current: 318/400.3
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/483 Converters with outputs that each can have more than two voltages levels
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/4835 comprising two or more cells, each including a switchable capacitor, the capacitors having a nominal charge voltage which corresponds to a given fraction of the input voltage, and the capacitors being selectively connected in series to determine the instantaneous output voltage

Abstract

A power supply device for a variable rotation speed drive includes a free-running converter connected to a land-based power grid, and an inverter connected to the variable rotation speed drive. A direct-current cable electrically connects the DC side of the converter with the DC side of the inverter. The inverter includes a plurality of phase modules having an upper and a lower valve branches with least two series-connected, two-pole subsystems with distributed energy storage devices. The inverter is located on the seabed in immediate vicinity of the variable rotation speed drive. Signal electronics of the inverter is located on land. In this way, the distance between the power supply on land and the drive on the ocean floor can reach several hundred kilometers, with ocean depths of several kilometers.

Claims

1. A power supply device for a variable rotation speed drive arranged on the seabed, comprising:

a free-running converter connected on an AC side to a power grid located on land,

an inverter having a DC side connected to a DC side of the converter and a load side connected to the variable rotation speed drive, the inverter comprising a plurality of phase modules, with each phase module having an upper and a lower valve branch and each valve branch having at least two series-connected, two-pole subsystems with distributed energy storage devices, the inverter being located on the seabed in immediate vicinity of the variable rotation speed drive,

a direct-current cable electrically conductively connecting the DC side of the converter with the DC side of the inverter, and

signal electronics of the inverter located on land,

wherein a two-pole subsystem comprises an energy storage capacitor and two turn-off semiconductor switches electrically connected in series at a junction point forming a first connecting terminal of the two-pole subsystem, with the series-connected semiconductor switches being connected electrically in parallel with the energy storage capacitor and a pole of the energy storage capacitor forming a second connecting terminal of the two-pole subsystem.

2. The power supply device of claim 1, comprising at least one self-commutated inverter connected with a corresponding variable rotation speed drive, wherein the DC side of the free-running converter is electrically conductively connected by the direct-current cable to a DC voltage busbar arranged on the seabed, and wherein the DC side of the at least one self-commutated inverter is also connected to the DC voltage busbar.

3. The power supply device of claim 1, wherein the free-running converter is arranged on a platform located at sea.

4. The power supply device of claim 1, wherein the free-running converter comprises a diode rectifier.

5. The power supply device of claim 4, wherein the diode rectifier is a 12-pulse rectifier.

6. The power supply device of claim 4, wherein the diode rectifier is an 18-pulse rectifier.

7. The power supply device of claim 4, wherein the diode rectifier is a 24-pulse rectifier.

8. The power supply device of claim 1, wherein the turn-off semiconductor switches comprise insulated gate bipolar transistors.

9. The power supply device of claim 1, wherein the variable rotation speed drive comprises an electric motor having a rotor, and wherein a pump is connected to the rotor.

10. The power supply device of claim 1, wherein the variable rotation speed drive comprises an electric motor having a rotor, and wherein a compressor is connected to the rotor.