Hybrid winch with controlled release and torque impulse generation control for anchor handling offshore
View Patent ↗A computer program product and system are disclosed including but not limited to supplying a voltage waveform from a higher power electrical bus to a lower power electrical bus; sensing on the lower power electrical bus, a deviation from a sinusoidal voltage waveform in the voltage waveform supplied from the higher power electrical bus; generating a correction current to adjust the deviation in the voltage on the lower power bus to a substantially sinusoidal voltage waveform; and filtering the correction current to substantially attenuate the correction current from propagating through the filter from the lower power electrical bus to the higher power electrical bus.
1. A computer program product comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer instructions that when executed by a processor perform functions to reduce harmonic distortion, the computer program comprising:
instructions to supply a higher voltage waveform from a higher power electrical bus to a lower power electrical bus through a transformer to form a lower power voltage;
instructions to generate an in-phase current from the lower power voltage using a current transformer;
instructions to sense on the lower power electrical bus , wherein the lower power electrical bus provides power to a substantially resistive load, a deviation from a sinusoidal voltage waveform in the lower power voltage waveform supplied from the higher power electrical bus;
instructions to generate an in-phase correction current in an active filter using the in-phase current from the current transformer;
instructions to supply the in-phase correction current opposing an in-phase current on the lower power electrical bus to adjust the deviation in the voltage on the lower power bus to a substantially sinusoidal voltage waveform thereby proving a cleaned-up lower power voltage on the lower power electrical bus;
instructions to step up the cleaned-up lower power voltage to a highest voltage using a transformer;
instructions to supply the highest voltage to a load; and
instructions to filter the correction current to substantially attenuate the correction current from propagating through the filter from the lower power electrical bus to the higher power electrical bus.
2. The product of claim 1 , wherein the deviation is at a harmonic frequency.
3. The product of claim 2 , wherein the filter substantially attenuates the harmonic frequency.
4. The product of claim 3 , wherein the harmonic anti-current is at frequency higher than a fundamental frequency for the voltage supplied from the main high power electrical bus so that the filter attenuates the harmonic frequencies higher than the fundamental frequency.
5. A system comprising:
a processor;
a non-transitory computer readable medium in data communication with the processor, the computer program comprising instructions to supply a higher voltage waveform from a higher power electrical bus to a lower power electrical bus through a transformer to form a lower power voltage;
instructions to generate an in-phase current from the lower power voltage using a current transformer;
instructions to sense on the lower power electrical bus , wherein the lower power electrical bus provides power to a substantially resistive load, a deviation from a sinusoidal voltage waveform in the lower power voltage waveform supplied from the higher power electrical bus;
instructions to generate an in-phase correction current in an active filter using the in-phase current from the current transformer;
instructions to supply the in-phase correction current opposing an in-phase current on the lower power electrical bus to adjust the deviation in the voltage on the lower power bus to a substantially sinusoidal voltage waveform thereby proving a cleaned-up lower power voltage on the lower power electrical bus;
instructions to step up the cleaned-up lower power voltage to a highest voltage using a transformer;
instructions to supply the highest voltage to a load; and
instructions to filter the correction current to substantially attenuate the correction current from propagating through the filter from the lower power electrical bus to the higher power electrical bus.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the deviation is at a harmonic frequency for the fundamental frequency of power supplied on the lower power electrical bus.
7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the filter substantially attenuates the correction current at the harmonic frequency.
8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the harmonic correction current is at frequency higher than a fundamental frequency for the voltage supplied from the main high power electrical bus so that the filter attenuates the harmonic correction current frequencies higher than the fundamental frequency.