Control and protection system of converter valve operation test equipment

• US 8,515,561 B2
• Filed: 12/24/2009
• Issued: 08/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: China Electric Power Research Institute (State Grid Corporation of China)
• Original Assignee: China Electric Power Research Institute (State Grid Corporation of China)
• Inventors: Tang, Guangfu, Zhang, Xingang, Zha, Kunpeng, Lv, Zheng, He, Zhiyuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Padmanabhan, Kavita
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHANG, SUNRAY
• Application Number:
  US12/679,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20110276189A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,335 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 700/19
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/3272 Apparatus, systems or circuits therefor G01R31/3275 takes precedence

Abstract

This present provides a control and protection equipment system suitable for synthesis converter operation test, relates to power system automation equipment field. This system includes human-machine interface element, synchronization element, signal acquisition element, data aggregation element, conditioning element, protecting element, wave form recording element, wave form monitor element, on-off input element, on-off output element, vale based element (VBE), high direct current supply power system controller, high voltage supply system controller, current surge circuit controller, impulse circuit controller, test converter valve water cooling controller and test equipment water cooling system controller. This system can control converter samples and auxiliary valves on set trigging timing, produce various operation tests need heat, voltage and current of the converter samples and carry through operation tests. This system can also monitor on-off condition and important analog parameters condition of main circuit immediately, when abnormal condition takes place, the suitable protective measures will be made immediately.

Claims

1. A control and protection system of converter operation test equipment includes human-machine interface element, synchronization element, signal acquisition element, data aggregation element, conditioning element, protecting element, wave form recording element, wave form monitor element, on-off input element, on-off output element, vale based element (VBE), high direct current supply power system controller, high voltage supply system controller, current surge circuit controller, impulse circuit controller, test converter valve water cooling controller and test equipment water cooling system controller;

above elements process data and logical judgment in certain timing order, said each element communicates information with each other through electric signal, optical fiber signal and by “

deploy”

, “

interface”

, “

recording wave” and

“

long distance”

four independent CAN buses;

as a result, the test converter valve and auxiliary valve can be orderly trigged according to set timing order;

various required voltage, current and heat for the test converter valves can be produced to carry out the operation test;

at the same time this system can also immediate monitor test equipment main circuit on-off condition and important simulation parameters, when operation is abnormal, protective measures can be made actively and timely,

said timing of various elements processing data and judging logic on set order is described as below;

(1) synchronization element produces test needed “

trigging synchronization”

signal and “

signal acquisition”

signal according to test equipment high voltage supply power system or high current power system 50 Hz alternating source;

“

trigging synchronization”

signal is used for synchronizing whole test equipment working, therefore one test period is one “

trigging synchronization”

signal period;

“

signal acquisition”

signal is used for synchronizing signal acquisition element and data aggregation element;

(2) signal acquisition element receives main circuit various sensors input simulation signals, trigs inner digital-analog converter according to “

signal acquisition”

signal which is sent from synchronization element, transform the simulation signals into digital signal and sends to data aggregation element;

(3) data aggregation element keeps pace with signal acquisition element by “

signal acquisition”

signal, process signals which are sent by signal acquisition element such as elimination temperature drift, digital filter, calibrated signal and so on, at last sends the “

acquisition results”

to conditioning element, protecting element and wave form recording element;

(4) conditioning element controls the present test process according to the “

acquisition results”

sent by data aggregation element, on-off information sent by on-off input element and VBE element, and control information sent by human-machine interface element through “

deploy CAN bus”

, changes each converter valve trigging timing, sends the timing signal to on-off input;

when the converter valve trigging timing is changed, conditioning element will send recording wave command to wave form recording element through “

interface CAN bus”

to effectively monitor the working condition of main circuit;

(5) protecting element judges the test equipment abnormal or not from “

acquisition results”

sent by data aggregation element, on-off information sent by on-off input element and VBE element, and protection parameters sent by human-machine interface element through “

deploy CAN bus”

;

if abnormal exits, it will make protective measures and send on-off action command to on-off output element through “

interface CAN bus”

;

when abnormal occurs, protecting element send recording wave command to wave form recording element through “

interface CAN bus”

to effectively monitor the protection condition of main circuit;

(6) wave form recording element processes “

acquisition results”

sent by data aggregation element and on-off information sent by on-off input element and VBE element, starts the record process according to conditioning element and protecting element commands, and sends record wave data to wave form monitor element though “

recording wave CAN bus”

;

(7) on-off input element acquires various on-off information of the main circuit, sends to conditioning element, protecting element and wave form recording element through “

interface CAN bus”

, sends to human-machine interface element through “

deploy CAN bus”

, at the same time sends “

trigging timing”

signal produced by conditioning element to corresponding VBE element and high direct current supply power controller;

(8) on-off output element performs on-off action commands sent by protecting element through “

interface CAN bus”

;

(9) in test circuit each converter corresponds a VBE element, each VBE element confirms trigging number and phase of the converter during each trigging period according to the “

trigging timing”

sent by conditioning element, sends trigging impulse to converter valves through optical fiber, at the same time monitors the working condition of each converter valve;

once abnormal condition takes place, VBE element reports related information to conditioning element and protecting element through “

interface CAN bus”

;

(10) high direct current supply power system controller, high voltage supply system controller, current surge circuit controller, impulse circuit controller, test converter valve water cooling controller and test equipment water cooling system controller receive the commands from “

long distance CAN bus”

sent by human-machine interface element, respectively controls corresponding main devices, at the same time monitors corresponding main devices and sent monitored information to human-interface element through “

long distance CAN bus”

.

2. A control and protection system of converter operation test equipment according to claim 1, wherein:

said human-interface element includes one high performance IPC, communicates bi-direction with other elements through “

deploy CAN bus” and

“

long distance CAN bus”

, its function contains;

receiving operator sent various test parameters and commands and transmitting to other relate elements, polling the “

deploy CAN bus”

function elements and the local controller of “

long distance CAN bus”

, acquiring test equipment main circuit monitor information through various elements and displaying on the monitor display of the element for the operator query.

3. A control and protection system of converter operation test equipment according to claim 2, wherein:

said synchronization element produces “

signal acquisition synchronization” and

“

trigging synchronization”

signal according to “

alternating synchronization voltage”

of test equipment main circuit;

“

alternating synchronization voltage”

is alternating voltage that test equipment gained through high voltage supply power system or high current supply power system access point, is 50 Hz alternating voltage;

synchronization element conditions and shapes “

alternating synchronization voltage”

, produces “

trigging synchronization”

signal to provide each converter valve trigging time reference, and locks phase and multiplies frequency of the “

trigging synchronization”

signal, forms “

acquisition synchronization”

signal to start signal acquisition element and data aggregation element.

4. A control and protection system of converter operation test equipment according to claim 3, wherein:

said signal acquisition element is used to convert various physical quantity analog signal into digital signal in test equipment main circuit;

to monitor test equipment operation condition, there are voltage sensors and current sensors on the important bypass circuits of the test equipment main circuit, there are temperature sensors, pressure sensors and flow sensors on the cooling system, signal acquisition element receives above analog signal of sensors, and carries out once digital analog conversion on each “

signal acquisition synchronization”

impulse signal arrival, converts these analog signal into digital signal, at last sends converted digital signal to data aggregation element.

5. A control and protection system of converter operation test equipment according to claim 4, wherein:

said data aggregation element processes signal acquisition element report signals, transmits process results to conditioning element, protecting element and wave form recording element;

process working includes eliminating acquired signal temperature drift, calibrating variable bit rate, digital filter and converting coded format etc.

6. A control and protection system of converter operation test equipment according to claim 5, wherein:

said conditioning element receives the set test programs, work model and condition constant etc parameters of human-machine interface element through “

deploy”

CAN bus, acquisition result sent from data aggregation element, and confirms trigging timing of each converter valve, accomplishes trigging timing simultaneous switching coupled with vale based elements (VBE), decides whether allows each valve based elements VBE to check corresponding converters or not;

under abnormal condition this element will also receive protecting commands of protecting element through “

interface”

CAN bus to aid protecting element achieve test equipment protection work.

7. A control and protection system of converter operation test equipment according to claim 6, wherein:

said protecting element receives the acquisition results sent from data aggregation element, monitor information from each VBE elements and on-off information from on-off input element;

once the abnormal condition takes place, said protecting element will make suitable measures to protect test equipment safe;

to simplify the protecting element, the strategies of all abnormal conditions are separated into three ranks;

common abnormal, hazardous abnormal and emergency abnormal, makes three different measures separately;

decoupling exit strategy, locking exit strategy and continuous trigging exit strategy according to different rank.

8. A control and protection system of converter operation test equipment according to claim 7, wherein:

said wave form recording element receives on-off information from on-off input element and the acquisition results sent from data aggregation element during transient operation and sends to wave form monitor element;

under steady condition, wave form recording element will immediate report the acquisition results of analog quantities to update test wave form immediately through wave form monitor element;

said on-off input element is used to acquire various on-off quantity status information of isolator, breaker and test equipment main circuit, and report the result to human-interface element, conditioning element, protecting element and wave form recording element, and on-off input element is used as the inner signal main way of control and protection system, converts “

trigging signal”

from conditioning element into multi-way signal and distributes VBE elements;

said on-off output element receives “

interface”

CAN bus commands from protecting element, and sends “

on-off”

signals to isolator, breaker and other on-off devices in test equipment main circuit according to “

interface”

CAN bus commands to drive these devices accomplish the set operations;

said wave form monitor element contains one high performance IPC;

During transient process, wave form monitor element receives analog signals, on-off parameter information reported by wave form recording element, and stores in the hard disk in data package form to inquire and display in the future;

on the steady condition, it receives continuously steady wave form recording data reported by wave form recording element and updates the results immediately.

9. A control and protection system of converter operation test equipment according to claim 8, wherein:

said each auxiliary converter and converter sample have a valve based electric element VBE in the test equipment main circuit;

on normal condition, each VBE trigs corresponding valves according to the “

trigging timing”

signal sent by conditioning element and “

trigging synchronism”

signal sent by synchronization element;

if conditioning element admits converter monitor, VBE will receive various converter monitor information, and when abnormal condition takes place, protective measures will be made rapidly to protect monitor converters;

on abnormal condition, each VBE element responds to the protecting element commands and locks valves or trigs valves continuously.

10. A control and protection system of converter operation test equipment according to claim 9, wherein:

said the system uses independent local controllers, these controllers control high voltage supply system, high direct supply system, current surge circuit, impulse circuit, water cooling system of test equipment and converter sample according to operators commands, and monitors these equipments.

11. A control and protection system of converter operation test equipment according to claim 6 or 9, wherein:

said conditioning element of the control and protecting system fans out signals through DI elements, sends “

trigging timing”

commands to each VBE element in order to trig corresponding converters of VBE elements on set trigging order;

these trigging timing is the trig number and trig phase of converters in each test period or “

trigging synchronization”

signal period;

because VBE element uses uniform “

trigging timing”

commands, the trigging timing of each valves can be changed at the same time, and avoids abnormal condition due to different trigging timing.

12. A control and protection system of converter operation test equipment according to claim 10, wherein:

said various elements communicates most data information through “

deploy”

, “

interface”

, “

recording wave” and

“

long distance”

four independent CAN buses, the structure and function of four buses are described as below;

the deploy CAN bus is “

single master and more minor”

form, master injection is human-machine interface element, minor injections include conditioning element, data aggregation element, protecting element, wave form recording element, on-off input element, on-off output element and various VBE elements;

deploy CAN bus is used to transmit various human-machine interface information;

operators input test parameters through human-machine interface element, these parameters are sent to corresponding function elements through this bus;

on the other hand, the analog parameters, on-off parameters information, valve information and various inner events collected by control and protection system is returned to human-machine interface element through this bus for operators query;

interface CAN bus is “

more master and more minor”

form, it is used to exchange information collected by VBE element and on-off information collected by on-off input element are sent to conditioning element, protecting element and wave form recording element;

on the other hand, the conditioning element and protecting element also send action commands to VBE element and on-off output element through interface CAN bus;

recording wave CAN bus is “

one master and one minor”

form, the master injection is monitor element, the minor injection is wave form recording element;

wave recording CAN bus is used to transmit the wave form information of on-off parameters and analog parameters;

wave form recording receives on-off information collected by on-off input element and analog parameter acquired results collected by signal acquisition element, and reports wave form monitor element then displays immediately through wave form monitor element;

long distance CAN bus is “

single master and more minor”

form, master injection is human-machine interface element, the minor injection include high direct current supply system controller, high voltage supply system controller, current surge circuit controller, impulse circuit controller, sample valve water cooling system controller and test equipment water cooling controller;

long distance CAN bus reports equipment monitor information collected by various local controllers.