Method to control the line distoration of a system of power supplies of electrostatic precipitators

1. An electrostatic precipitator unit comprising:

electrostatic precipitators;

at least two individual power supplies for a pulsed operation of the electrostatic precipitators;

a common feeding powering the power supplies; and

a control unit for each of the power supplies at least indirectly connected by communication lines for a controlled relative scheduling of a pulsed operation of the individual power supplies.

2. The electrostatic precipitator unit according to claim 1 , wherein each of the power supplies power at least two individual electrostatic precipitators with each of the at least two individual electrostatic precipitators comprising more than one independent power supplies.

3. The electrostatic precipitator unit according to claim 1 , wherein the power supplies are a part of one of the at least two individual electrostatic precipitators to power individual bus sections or fields thereof.

4. The electrostatic precipitator unit according to claim 1 ,

wherein the unit further comprises a control computer connected to the communication lines of the power supplies for scheduling control.

5. The electrostatic precipitator unit according to claim 1 , wherein the controlled relative scheduling of the pulsed operation of the individual power supplies is effected by one power supply defined as a reference power supply, and initial pulses of each further power supply shifts by controlled delays to pulses of the reference power supply to fill the gaps between the pulses of the reference power supply by pulses of the further power supplies.

6. The electrostatic precipitator unit according to claim 5 , wherein the controlled delays are determined by the control unit to uniformly distribute the pulses of the further power supplies in the gaps between pulses of the reference power supply (pulse period), and if an accumulated pulse width of all power supplies is smaller than a largest pulse period, controlled delays are set by the control unit so gaps between all pulses are equal, if the accumulated pulse width of all power supplies is equal to the largest pulse period, controlled delays are set by the control unit for no gaps between pulses, and if the accumulated pulse width of all power supplies is larger than the largest pulse period, controlled delays are set so overlap length of each pulse is equal.

7. The electrostatic precipitator unit according to claim 1 , wherein the power supplies are single- or three-phase, 50 Hz or 60 Hz based power supplies, high voltage transformer based, integrated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) based converters, series loaded resonant converters for high power and high voltage, said high power in a range of 10-200 kW or said high voltage in a range of 50-150 kV DC.

8. The electrostatic precipitator unit according to claim 1 , wherein the unit operates with DC pulses provided to the electrostatic precipitators with pulse widths in a range of 0.1-20 ms, or having pulse periods in a range of 0.5 ms-2 s, wherein a pulse ratio of pulse width divided by pulse period is 1 to 1/2000.

9. The electrostatic precipitator unit according to claim 1 , wherein the electrostatic precipitator comprises at least one bus section for pulsed operation and at least one further bus section for continuous operation.

10. The electrostatic precipitator unit according to claim 1 ,

wherein the unit comprises at least three to six power supplies, each connected and powered by a common feeding and at least indirectly connected by communication lines.

11. An industrial application, power plant, fossil fuel operated power plant, or coal operated power plant comprising:

an electrostatic precipitator unit according to claim 1 , for cleaning exhaust gases from said application or plant.

12. A method of operating an electrostatic precipitator unit comprising:

defining one power supply as a reference power supply, and shifting initial pulses of each further power supply by controlled delays from pulses of the reference power supply to fill gaps between the pulses of the reference power supply by pulses of the further power supplies, wherein the reference power supply is the power supply of the unit with largest gaps between pulses (pulse period).

13. Method according to claim 12 , wherein the controlled delays are set to uniformly distribute the pulses of the further power supplies in the pulse period of the reference power supply, and, if an accumulated pulse width of all power supplies is smaller than a largest pulse period, the controlled delays are set so gaps between pulses are equal, if the accumulated pulse width of all power supplies is equal to the largest pulse period, the controlled delays are set for no gaps between pulses, and if the accumulated pulse width of all power supplies is larger than the largest pulse period, the controlled delays are set so overlap length of each pulse is equal.