IP Library Granted Patent US 8,674,666
Granted Patent B2
US 8,674,666 · App. 12/159,765 · Granted Mar 18, 2014

Device for balancing a transmission network

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Patent No.
US 8,674,666
App. No.
12/159,765
Granted
Mar 18, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A compensator for balancing an ac voltage network with a load connected between two phases. The compensator includes a voltage-source converter and a balancing device. The balancing device includes an inductance connected between phases before the load.

Claims (13)

1. A compensator for balancing an ac voltage network comprising a sequence of a first phase, a second phase and a third phase with an unsymmetrically connected load connected between the second phase and the third phase in the sequence of phases, the compensator comprising:

a voltage-source converter; and

a balancing device, wherein the balancing device comprises an inductance connected between the first phase and the second phase, and a capacitance connected between the third phase and the first phase, wherein the balancing device is configured to create a negative-sequence current with fixed amplitude and direction,

wherein the compensator is configured to balance the load within a load range, wherein the balancing device is configured to provide about one-half of a current for an operating range of the voltage source converter, and wherein the voltage source converter is configured to provide a difference between a total current of the compensator and the current of the balancing device.

2. The compensator according to claim 1 , wherein the balancing device further comprises a compensation capacitance connected in parallel with the load.

3. The compensator according to claim 1 , wherein a power value of the inductance and the capacitance is substantially equal.

4. The compensator according to claim 3 , wherein the power value of both the inductance and the capacitance contains a maximum resistive load power divided by two times a root of three.

5. A method for balancing an unevenly loaded polyphase network comprising a sequence of a first phase, a second phase and a third phase with a voltage-source converter, the three phase network having an unsymmetrically connected load connected between the second phase and the third phase, the method comprising:

displacing an operating range of the voltage source converter with a balancing device including an inductance and a capacitance, wherein the balancing device is configured to create a negative-sequence current with fixed amplitude and direction;

introducing the inductance between the first phase and the second phase;

introducing the capacitance between the third phase and the first phase, wherein the balancing device is adapted for providing about one-half of a current for the operating range; and

providing with the voltage source converter a difference between a total current of the compensator and the current of the balancing device.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein displacement of an operating range comprises a rotation of a control range by introducing a second capacitance, wherein the second capacitance is introduced in parallel across the load.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 6, 2020
From: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
To: ABB POWER GRIDS SWITZERLAND AG
Reel/Frame 052916/0001 →
MERGER Recorded Nov 15, 2016
From: ABB TECHNOLOGY LTD.
To: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
Reel/Frame 040620/0939 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 22, 2009
From: THORVALDSSON, BJORN
To: ABB TECHNOLOGY LTD.
Reel/Frame 022136/0315 →