Phase-fired control arrangement and method

• US 9,013,157 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2009
• Issued: 04/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: SiTec GmbH (Solarpark Blautal GmbH)
• Original Assignee: SiTec GmbH (Solarpark Blautal GmbH)
• Inventors: Vollmar, Wilfried
• Primary Examiner(s): Finch, III, Fred E
• Application Number:
  US13/133,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20110285364A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,113 Days
• Field of Search: 323/239, 323/241, 323/246, 323/258, 323/322, 323/324, 323/325, 323/343, 323/345
• US Class Current: 323/258
• CPC Class Codes: G05F 1/20 semiconductor devices only
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 5/12 for conversion of voltage or current amplitude only
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 5/257 using semiconductor devices only
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 39/08 by shifting phase of trigger voltage applied to gas-filled controlling tubes also in controlled semiconductor devices in converters H02M5/00; with regulation G05F1/44

Abstract

A method and arrangement for phase-fired control is provided, in which all controllable electric switching elements are linked by a common controller that has a first input for a first control signal. A set point value is pre-defined as a first input variable and assigned to a device for controlling the controllable electric switching elements. Current flowing through each switching element is measured and transmitted to the device for controlling the switching elements as a respective second input variable. The current value of the voltage in the load is measured and transmitted to the device for controlling the switching elements as a third input variable. The device for controlling the switching elements controls all switching elements in a targeted manner by use of the first, second and third input variables. A maximum of two switching elements are active at any one time.

Claims

1. An arrangement for phase-fired control, as performance controller for thermal engineering without change of frequency of voltage, with a transformer containing a primary and secondary coil for generating voltage, wherein the secondary coil has an end and at least two taps, and a controllable electrical switching element is connected at each tap and each controllable electrical switching element is connected to a first connection of a load, and a second connection of the load is connected to the end of the secondary coil, and all controllable electrical switching elements are connected with and controlled by a single common controller, and the common controller has a first input for receiving a control signal corresponding to a target value of a set current flowing through the load or a set voltage to be applied to the load and is configured to automatically select two controllable electrical switching elements to be simultaneously active and controlled by the common controller, the common controller determining a steering angle, and generating phase-fired control signals to switch over from a first to a second of the two controllable electrical switching elements at an arbitrary control angle of the current flowing through an active controllable switching element depending on the target value, and an ammeter arranged in series between a tap and an active controllable electrical switching element or between the active controllable electrical switching element and the load, the ammeter being connected with a second input of the common controller, and the common controller measuring current at the second input flowing only through an active controllable electrical switching element.

2. Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein a fuse is arranged in line with the controllable electrical switching element.

3. Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein a voltage meter is connected parallel to the load and the voltage meter is connected with a third input of the controller.

4. Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein at least one controllable electrical switching element comprises two anti-parallel connected thyristors.

5. Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein at least one controllable electrical switching element comprises a triac.

6. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the common controller includes only two current measuring devices, regardless of number of controllable electrical switching elements in the arrangement, and the two current measuring devices are selectively connected by the common controller to a second input of only the active controllable electrical switching element.

7. The arrangement according to claim 1, with a single ammeter connected between the electrically controllable switching element and the load, and wherein current measured at a particular time is assigned by the common controller to the controllable switching element active at said time.

8. A method for phase-fired control, wherein a target set value of a controllable electrical variable is specified for a load and is controlled by switching multiple parallel connected controllable electrical switching elements on or off, the switching elements are arranged in a current circuit between an alternating current generator and the load and operate with a phase-fired process in which two controllable electrical switching elements are simultaneously active, the target set value is specified to a single common controller for controlling the controllable electrical switching elements as a first input value, current flowing only through an active controllable electrical switching element at any point of time is measured by an ammeter arranged in series between the alternating current generator and an active controllable switching element or between the active controllable switching element and the load and transmitted to the common controller as a second input value, voltage on the load is measured and transmitted to the common controller as a third input value, and the common controller controlled by the first, second and third input values controls all controllable electrical switching elements to automatically select two controllable electrical switching elements to be simultaneously active and controlled, to determine a steering angle and to generate phase-fired control signals to switch over from a first to a second of the two controllable electrical switching elements at an arbitrary control angle of current flowing through an active controllable switching element depending on the target set value.