IP Library Granted Patent US 9,360,506
Granted Patent B2
US 9,360,506 · App. 14/000,025 · Granted Jun 7, 2016

System and method of monitoring the waveform of the voltage of the electrical grid

Inventors: Joan Gabriel Bergas (Barcelona, ES); Joaquim López Mestre (Argentona, ES); Hector Ali Rivas Guerrero (San Cristóbal, VE); Natalia Sangroniz Palacio (Mungia, ES); César Chávez Soria (Naucalpan, MX)
Assignee: ARTECHE LANTEGI ELKARTEA, S.A.
G01R19/2513H02J3/1864Y02E40/12
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Patent No.
US 9,360,506
App. No.
14/000,025
Granted
Jun 7, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for monitoring the electric network voltage waveform, comprising: switching means ( 11 ) connected to the voltage lines (A, B, C) of a three-phase system, comprising two thyristors (T 1 , T 2 ) connected to two of the voltage lines (A, B, C) and at least two capacitors (C 1 , C 2 ) connected to said thyristors (T 1 , T 2 ), said means ( 11 ) being configured to open and close said thyristors (T 1 , T 2 ) in response to a trigger signal; means for measuring ( 12 ) the voltages in said voltage lines and at the input of said capacitors; a thyristor trigger circuit ( 14 ) for providing a trigger signal to either thyristor (DT 1 , DT 2 ) when the voltage in the terminals of said thyristor (T 1 , T 2 ) crosses zero; control means ( 13, 23 ) for giving said trigger order (OD) or not. The control means comprise: a PLL ( 231, 331 ) configured to obtain an image signal from the voltage signals of said voltage lines (A, B, C), from the phase angle (φ) of the three-phase system and from the temporal variation thereof; an adaptive notch filter ( 232, 432 ) for providing filtered voltage signals between the voltage lines (V AC _ f , V BC _ f ); means for filtering the voltages at the input of the capacitors (V C1 _ f , V C2 _ f ); a zero crossing detector ( 235, 535 ) configured to provide said trigger order (OD).

Claims (28)

1. A system for monitoring ( 10 ) an electric network voltage waveform, comprising:

switching means ( 11 ) connected to voltage lines (A, B, C) of a three-phase system, wherein said means ( 11 ) comprise two thyristors (T 1 , T 2 ) connected to two of the voltage lines (A, B, C) and at least two capacitors (C 1 , C 2 ) connected to said thyristors (T 1 , T 2 ), said means ( 11 ) being configured to open and close said thyristors (T 1 , T 2 ) in response to a corresponding trigger signal (DT 1 , DT 2 );

means for measuring ( 12 ) the voltages in said voltage lines and at the input of said capacitors (V A , V B , V C , V C1 , V C2 );

a thyristor trigger circuit ( 14 ) configured to provide the trigger signal from a trigger order (OD) to either thyristor (DT 1 , DT 2 ) when the voltage in the terminals of said thyristor (T 1 , T 2 ) crosses zero;

control means ( 13 , 23 ) configured to give said trigger order (OD) based on the measured voltages (V A , V B , V C , V C1 , V C2 );

wherein said control means ( 13 , 23 ) comprise:

a PLL ( 231 , 331 ) configured to obtain an image signal from the voltage signals of said voltage lines (A, B, C), from a phase angle (φ) of the three-phase system and from a temporal variation thereof;

the system being characterized by:

an adaptive notch filter ( 232 , 432 ) disposed at the output of said PLL ( 231 , 331 ), wherein the constants of said adaptive notch filter ( 232 , 432 ) are calculated from the derivative of said phase angle (φ), configured to provide filtered voltage signals between the voltage lines (V AC _ f , V BC _ f ), wherein said filtered signals can represent frequencies different from the fundamental frequency;

means for filtering the measured voltages at the input of the capacitors (V C1 _ f , V C2 _ f );

a zero crossing detector ( 235 , 535 ) configured to provide said trigger order (OD) from said filtered voltages (V AC f , V BC f , V C1 f , V C2 f );

and wherein said PLL ( 231 , 331 ) comprises:

means for applying a Clarke transformation ( 3311 ) to the voltage signals (V A V B V C ) to convert the balanced three-phase system into an orthogonal stationary quadrature two-phase system (X D X Q );

means for applying a Park transformation ( 3312 ) to the two-phase quadrature (X D X Q ) to convert the orthogonal stationary two-phase system (X D X Q ) into a rotating orthogonal system (X d X q );

means for applying a proportional-integral-derivative control ( 3313 ) to obtain the rotation speed of the system and the frequency of the original electrical system;

means ( 3314 ) for integrating said rotation speed and calculating the phase angle of the voltage from the rotation speed of the system;

means for obtaining an inverse Park transformation ( 3315 ) to convert the quadrature rotating reference frame into an orthogonal stationary two-phase system ;

means for obtaining the inverse Clarke transformation ( 3316 ) to obtain an image of the original three-phase system (V A V B V C ).

2. The system ( 10 ) of claim 1 , wherein said switching means ( 11 ) further comprise an inductor (L 1 , L 2 ) located between each thyristor (T 1 , T 2 ) and the corresponding capacitor (C 1 , C 2 ).

3. The system ( 10 ) of claim 1 , wherein said adaptive notch filter ( 232 , 432 ) is an all-pass filter.

4. The system ( 10 ) of claim 3 , wherein said all-pass filter is a planar rotation lattice filter.

5. The system ( 10 ) of claim 1 , wherein said control means ( 13 , 23 ) and said thyristor trigger circuit ( 14 ) are configured to send the corresponding trigger signals (DT 1 , DT 2 ) when the following three conditions are simultaneously met:

the trigger order (OD) is received;

the voltage in the terminals of the thyristor is the same;

the previous condition is not due to a disturbance.

6. The system ( 10 ) of claim 1 , further comprising a reactive power regulating module ( 15 ) configured to provide a connect/disconnect (C/D) order to said control means ( 13 , 23 ).

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system for monitoring ( 10 ) the electric network voltage waveform is provided in a static switch.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system is configured for calculating the zero crossings of the electric network voltage signal.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 18, 2013
From: GABRIEL BERGAS, JOAN; LOPEZ MESTRE, JOAQUIM; RIVAS GUERRERO, HECTOR; SANGRONIZ PALACIO, NATALIA; CHAVEZ SORIA, CESAR
To: ARTECHE LANTEGI ELKARTEA, S.A.
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Continuity (1)
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