Granted Patent B2

US 7,577,006 · App. 11/440,509 · Granted Aug 18, 2009

Abstract

Claims (17)

1. A non-linear frequency droop control system for parallel operation of inverters with isochronous frequency operation comprising;

a non-linear droop constant generator for providing droop constant corresponding to the power level of a given inverter for maintaining said predetermined limited frequency range of said given inverter;

a droop generator for generating the droop from the given inverter power level and said droop constant; and

a calculator responsive to said droop for determining the incremental shift in the output voltage waveform of said given inverter operating in a predetermined limited frequency range to enable equal current sharing among the inverters.

2. The non-linear frequency droop control system of claim 1 further including a load power calculator for calculating said inverter power level.

3. The non-linear frequency droop control system of claim 2 in which said load power calculator includes a voltage sensing circuit for sensing the output load voltage of the inverters, an RMS calculator circuit for calculating the RMS of said output voltages and a phase-lock loop circuit for measuring the phase of said output voltages at the point of load.

4. The non-linear frequency droop control system of claim 3 in which said load power calculator includes a current measurement circuit for moving the current into and out of said inverters.

5. The non-linear frequency droop control system of claim 4 in which said load power calculator includes a voltage component calculator circuit responsive to the RMS voltages and phase to calculate the voltage components, and a power calculator circuit responsive to said voltage components and measured current to produce the active and reactive power.

6. The non-linear frequency droop control system of claim 1 in which said non-linear droop control generator includes a look-up table.

7. The non-linear frequency droop control system of claim 6 in which said look-up table contains a range of different droop constants corresponding to a range of different power levels for maintaining the isochronous frequency operation of said given inverter in said predetermined limited frequency range over the whole range of said different power levels.

8. The non-linear frequency droop control system of claim 1 in which said inverter is a multiphase inverter.

9. A method of non-linear frequency droop control for isochronous frequency operation of parallel inverters comprising;

generating a droop constant corresponding to the power level of a given inverter for maintaining the predetermined frequency range of the given inverter;

generating a droop from the given inverter power level and the droop constant; and

calculating in response to the droop the incremental shift in the output voltage waveform of the given inverter operating in a predetermined limited frequency range to enable current sharing among the inverters.

10. The method of claim 9 in which generating the droop constant includes referring to a look-up table which contains a range of different droop constants corresponding to a range of different power levels for maintaining the isochronous frequency operation of said given inverter in said predetermined limited frequency range over the whole range of said different power levels.

11. A method of non-linear frequency droop control for isochronous frequency operation of a parallel inverter in a parallel inverter system comprising generating a droop constant corresponding to the power level of a given inverter for maintaining the predetermined frequency range of the given inverter and shifting the output voltage waveforms of the given inverter to keep the frequency within the virtually isochronous limited frequency range.

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