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Granted Patent B2
US 9,768,712 · App. 15/306,696 · Granted Sep 19, 2017

Power conversion device connected to single-phase system

Inventors: Kenichi Sakimoto (Akashi, JP); Yuko Hirase (Kobe, JP); Eiji Yoshimura (Akashi, JP); Shogo Katsura (Akashi, JP); Hidehiko Nakagawa (Himeji, JP); Osamu Noro (Akashi, JP); Yuji Shindo (Akashi, JP)
Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H02M7/537H02J3/38H02M1/42H02M7/5395H02M7/53871
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Patent No.
US 9,768,712
App. No.
15/306,696
Granted
Sep 19, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A power conversion device includes: a power converter to perform output to an output line connected to a single-phase power system; and a control device to control the power converter so it operates as a virtual synchronous generator. The control device includes: a voltage and current measurer to obtain, from a single-phase system voltage, an angular velocity and a phase of the system voltage by an estimation operation that uses the phase of the system voltage as a parameter; a power obtainer to obtain active power and reactive power; a governor model to calculate a phase difference; an AVR model to calculate an absolute value of an induced voltage of a virtual synchronous generator; a generator model to calculate current command values corresponding to an armature current of the virtual synchronous generator; and a current controller to generate and output a PWM signal to the power converter.

Claims (42)

1. A power conversion device comprising:

a power converter configured to convert DC power into single-phase AC power and output the AC power to an output line connected to a single-phase power system; and

a control device configured to control the power converter such that the power converter operates as a virtual synchronous generator, wherein

the control device includes:

a voltage measurer configured to measure a single-phase system voltage, which is a system voltage of the single-phase power system, and from the measured single-phase system voltage, obtain an angular velocity and a phase of the system voltage by an estimation operation that uses the phase of the system voltage as a parameter;

a power obtainer configured to obtain active power and reactive power of the single-phase power system;

a governor model configured to calculate a phase difference based on a deviation of the active power obtained by the power obtainer from an active power command value, a drooping characteristic of the virtual synchronous generator, and the angular velocity;

an AVR model configured to calculate an absolute value of an induced voltage of the virtual synchronous generator based on a deviation of the reactive power obtained by the power obtainer from a reactive power command value and the system voltage that is based on the measurement by the voltage measurer;

a generator model configured to calculate current command values corresponding to an armature current of the virtual synchronous generator based on the phase difference calculated by the governor model, the absolute value of the induced voltage calculated by the AVR model, d-axis and q-axis components of the system voltage that correspond to the phase, and an impedance of the virtual synchronous generator; and

a current controller configured to generate a PWM signal based on the current command values calculated by the generator model, and output the PWM signal to the power converter.

2. The power conversion device according to claim 1 , wherein

the voltage measurer includes:

a voltage positive sequence component extractor configured to extract, from the measured single-phase system voltage, positive sequence d-axis and q-axis components of the system voltage (hereinafter, simply referred to as d-axis and q-axis components of the system voltage) by DDSRF operation; and

an angular velocity and phase obtainer configured to obtain the angular velocity and the phase of the system voltage by using the q-axis component of the system voltage, which is extracted by the voltage positive sequence component extractor, wherein

the voltage measurer is configured to extract the d-axis and q-axis components of the system voltage by using, in the DDSRF operation, the phase obtained by the angular velocity and phase obtainer.

3. The power conversion device according to claim 2 , wherein

the system voltage based on the measurement by the voltage measurer, which is used by the AVR model, is based on the d-axis and q-axis components of the system voltage that are extracted by the voltage positive sequence component extractor.

4. The power conversion device according to claim 2 , wherein

the d-axis and q-axis components of the system voltage that are used by the virtual generator model and that correspond to the phase are the d-axis and q-axis components of the system voltage that are extracted by the voltage positive sequence component extractor.

5. The power conversion device according to claim 2 , wherein

the control device further includes a current measurer configured to measure a single-phase system current, which is a system current of the single-phase power system, and from the measured single-phase system current, extract positive sequence d-axis and q-axis components of the system current (hereinafter, simply referred to as d-axis and q-axis components of the system current) by DDSRF operation, and

the current controller performs feedback control of the single-phase system current by using, as feedback current values, the d-axis and q-axis components of the system current that are extracted by the current measurer.

6. The power conversion device according to claim 2 , wherein

the current controller is configured to generate an α-axis voltage command value and a β-axis voltage command value of a rest frame based on feedback current values and the current command values calculated by the generator model, and generate the PWM signal based on the α-axis voltage command value, and

the voltage measurer is a voltage and current measurer including:

an inverse dq transformer configured to calculate a β-axis voltage from the d-axis and q-axis components of the system voltage by performing rest-frame transformation using the phase;

a β-axis current calculator configured to calculate a β-axis current by performing FAE operation based on the β-axis voltage calculated by the inverse dq transformer and the β-axis voltage command value generated by the current controller; and

a dq transformer configured to measure a single-phase system current, which is a system current of the single-phase power system, convert an α-axis current, which is the measured single-phase system current, and the β-axis current calculated by the β-axis current calculator into d-axis and q-axis components of the system current by using the phase, and output the d-axis and q-axis components of the system current to the current controller as the feedback current values.

7. The power conversion device according to claim 2 , wherein

the angular velocity and phase obtainer is configured to obtain an angular velocity ω and a phase θ of the system voltage by an arithmetic operation of inputting the q-axis component of the system voltage as a phase detection error (θ−φ) (where θ is an estimated phase of the system voltage and φ is the system voltage) into a phase detection loop including the voltage measurer.

8. The power conversion device according to claim 3 , wherein

the d-axis and q-axis components of the system voltage that are used by the virtual generator model and that correspond to the phase are the d-axis and q-axis components of the system voltage that are extracted by the voltage positive sequence component extractor.

9. The power conversion device according to claim 3 , wherein

the angular velocity and phase obtainer is configured to obtain an angular velocity ω and a phase θ of the system voltage by an arithmetic operation of inputting the q-axis component of the system voltage as a phase detection error (θ−φ) (where θ is an estimated phase of the system voltage and φ is the system voltage) into a phase detection loop including the voltage measurer.

10. The power conversion device according to claim 4 , wherein

the angular velocity and phase obtainer is configured to obtain an angular velocity ω and a phase θ of the system voltage by an arithmetic operation of inputting the q-axis component of the system voltage as a phase detection error (θ−φ) (where θ is an estimated phase of the system voltage and φ is the system voltage) into a phase detection loop including the voltage measurer.

11. The power conversion device according to claim 5 , wherein

the angular velocity and phase obtainer is configured to obtain an angular velocity ω and a phase θ of the system voltage by an arithmetic operation of inputting the q-axis component of the system voltage as a phase detection error (θ−φ) (where θ is an estimated phase of the system voltage and φ is the system voltage) into a phase detection loop including the voltage measurer.

12. The power conversion device according to claim 6 , wherein

the angular velocity and phase obtainer is configured to obtain an angular velocity ω and a phase θ of the system voltage by an arithmetic operation of inputting the q-axis component of the system voltage as a phase detection error (θ−φ) (where θ is an estimated phase of the system voltage and φ is the system voltage) into a phase detection loop including the voltage measurer.

13. The power conversion device according to claim 8 , wherein

the angular velocity and phase obtainer is configured to obtain an angular velocity ω and a phase θ of the system voltage by an arithmetic operation of inputting the q-axis component of the system voltage as a phase detection error (θ−φ) (where θ is an estimated phase of the system voltage and φ is the system voltage) into a phase detection loop including the voltage measurer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 21, 2016
From: SAKIMOTO, KENICHI; HIRASE, YUKO; YOSHIMURA, EIJI; KATSURA, SHOGO; NAKAGAWA, HIDEHIKO; NORO, OSAMU; SHINDO, YUJI
To: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-093894 · Apr 30, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
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