Modular multilevel converter valve protection method

• US 9,373,950 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2011
• Issued: 06/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: China-EPRI Electric Power Engineering Co Ltd, Global Energy Interconection Research Institute, China Electric Power Research Institute (State Grid Corporation of China), State Grid Corporation of China
• Original Assignee: China-EPRI Electric Power Engineering Co Ltd, China Electric Power Research Institute (State Grid Corporation of China), Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute (State Grid Corporation of China), State Grid Corporation of China
• Inventors: Gao, Yang, Yang, Yuefeng, Wang, Renqiu, He, Zhiyuan, Zhang, Xinggang, Xie, Minhua
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thienvu
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mai, Tien
• Application Number:
  US14/005,267
• Publication Number:
  US 20140002933A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,666 Days
• Field of Search: 361/18
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 3/085 making use of a thermal sensor, e.g. thermistor, heated by the excess current also responsive to the temperature of the protected device H02H5/041, thermal images H02H6/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0003 Details of control, feedback or regulation circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/32 Means for protecting converters other than automatic disconnection
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/325 with means for allowing continuous operation despite a fault, i.e. fault tolerant converters
• 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

The invention relates to Modular multilevel converter valve protection method, the modular multilevel converter valve consists of 6 arms, the arm includes sub modules, 1 arm is controlled by 1 control host, 6 control hosts is controlled by 1 summary control host, the method of the invention includes that the arm realizes locking sub module, bypass sub module, trip requests and system switching request and the summary control host implements summary and control response. The invention improves the reliability of two protection system through the use of dual redundancy protection method, clears the protection division through the layered protection frame of the upper summary control host and multi arm control host. And finally, it improves the whole safety and reliability of the modular multilevel converter valve.

Claims

1. A modular multilevel converter valve including six arms, the six arms including a plurality of sub modules, the modular multilevel converter comprising:

a summary control host and the six arms, each of the six arms configured to connect to a respective arm control host at a first end;

wherein the modular multilevel convert is configured to;

determine that a sub module is associated with a fault using the arm control host,

disenable the sub module using the arm control host associated with the sub module;

receive information related to at least one of the fault of the sub module, an over-voltage of the sub module, a under-voltage of the sub module, or a frequent-check of the sub module; and

disenable a bypass switch associated with the sub module, using the arm control host associated with the at least one of the sub module.

2. The modular multilevel converter valve of claim 1, wherein the respective arm control host and the summary control host are valve base control devices, each of the valve base control devices includes a power supply, an interface board and a central processing unit.

3. The modular multilevel converter valve of claim 1, wherein the fault is associated with one of the following categories including an IGBT fault or a temporary-drive fault, or an over-voltage or an under-voltage of a sub module.