IP Library Granted Patent US 12,237,680
Granted Patent B2
US 12,237,680 · App. 18/041,117 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Power conversion device

Inventors: Kenichi Kondo (Chuo-ku, JP); Naoki Morishima (Chuo-ku, JP)
Assignee: TMEIC Corporation
H02J3/16
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Patent No.
US 12,237,680
App. No.
18/041,117
Granted
Feb 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A power conversion device is connected to a power transmission line which is connected to a generator. The power conversion device includes a frequency detector that detects a system frequency, the system frequency being a frequency of an AC voltage on the power transmission line, a controller that generates a reactive power command value to compensate for a variation in the detected system frequency, and a power converter that outputs reactive power in accordance with the reactive power command value to the power transmission line.

Claims (19)

1. A power conversion device connected to a power transmission line, the power transmission line being connected to a generator, the power conversion device comprising:

a frequency detector that detects a system frequency, the system frequency being a frequency of an AC voltage on the power transmission line;

a controller that generates a reactive power command value to compensate for a variation in the detected system frequency; and

a power converter that outputs reactive power in accordance with the reactive power command value to the power transmission line,

wherein

the controller includes

an active power flow detection circuit that detects an active power flow in the power transmission line,

an active power flow variation detection circuit that calculates an amount of variation in the active power flow,

a first control computation circuit that calculates a first active power command value and a first reactive power command value in accordance with a predetermined control computation using the amount of variation in the active power flow as an input,

a system voltage variation detection circuit that calculates an amount of variation in an effective value of a system voltage on the power transmission line,

a second control computation circuit that calculates a second active power command value and a second reactive power command value in accordance with a predetermined control computation using the amount of variation in the system voltage as an input,

a frequency variation detection circuit that calculates an amount of variation in the system frequency,

a third control computation circuit that calculates a third reactive power command value in accordance with a predetermined control computation using the amount of variation in the system frequency as an input,

a combination circuit that combines the first and second active power command values calculated by the first to third control computation circuits to generate a fourth active power command value, and combines the first to third reactive power command values to generate a fourth reactive power command value, and

an output control circuit that controls the power converter to output active power in accordance with the fourth active power command value and reactive power in accordance with the fourth reactive power command value.

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

the combination circuit

adds a product of the first active power command value and a first gain and a product of the second active power command value and a second gain, to thereby generate the fourth active power command value, and

adds a product of the first reactive power command value and a third gain, a product of the second reactive power command value and a fourth gain, and a product of the third reactive power command value and a fifth gain, to thereby generate the fourth reactive power command value.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 26, 2024
From: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
To: TMEIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 067244/0359 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 9, 2023
From: KONDO, KENICHI; MORISHIMA, NAOKI
To: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062641/0814 →
Continuity (1)
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