System for converting and transporting electrical energy for the internal hybridization of an aircraft with turbojet engines
An aircraft propelled by at least one turbojet engine on which power can be bled or injected via a high-pressure and/or low-pressure turbine shaft and including at least one gas turbine to provide power transients, having a system for converting and transporting electrical energy wherein each of the high-pressure and/or low-pressure turbine shafts is connected to a first doubly-fed asynchronous machine delivering, a first three-phase AC voltage over an AC distribution grid and a second polyphase AC voltage for a first AC/DC bidirectional converter supplying a DC voltage over a DC distribution grid, at least one second DC/AC bidirectional converter connected to the DC distribution grid converting this DC voltage into a third polyphase AC voltage supplying at least one second doubly-fed asynchronous machine engaged with a rotation shaft of the gas turbine, the second doubly-fed asynchronous machine further delivering a fourth polyphase AC voltage over the AC distribution grid.
1. A system for converting and transporting electrical energy in an aircraft propelled by at least one turbojet engine on which power can be bled or injected via a high-pressure and/or low-pressure turbine shaft and including at least one gas turbine to provide power transients, wherein each of said high-pressure and/or low-pressure turbine shafts is connected to a first doubly-fed asynchronous machine delivering, on the one hand, a first three-phase AC voltage over an AC distribution grid and on the other hand a second polyphase AC voltage for a first AC/DC bidirectional converter supplying a DC voltage over a DC distribution grid, at least one second DC/AC bidirectional converter connected to said DC distribution grid converting this DC voltage into a third polyphase AC voltage supplying at least one second doubly-fed asynchronous machine engaged with a rotation shaft of said at least one gas turbine, said second doubly-fed asynchronous machine further delivering a fourth polyphase AC voltage over said AC distribution grid.
2. The system for converting and transporting electrical energy as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the system further includes a storage unit shunt-mounted directly on said DC distribution grid.
3. The system for converting and transporting electrical energy as claimed in claim 1 , wherein all the high-power electrical protectors are disposed on said AC distribution grid.
4. The system for converting and transporting electrical energy as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the high-power electrical protectors include contact switches and/or circuit breakers.
5. The system for converting and transporting electrical energy as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first and/or the second doubly-fed asynchronous machine is a wound rotor induction generator, the stator windings of which are directly connected to said AC distribution grid and the rotor windings of which are connected to the first and/or the second AC/DC bidirectional converter.
6. An aircraft including a system for converting and transporting electrical energy as claimed in claim 1 .
7. The aircraft as claimed in claim 6 , of Short-Medium Range type including two turbojet engines and two gas turbines.
8. A method for managing faults in a system for converting and transporting electrical energy as claimed in claim 1 comprising the following steps of:
performing a fault search test;
when a fault is detected, searching for a nature of the fault;
when the fault concerns a doubly-fed asynchronous machine or a doubly-fed asynchronous machine controller, disabling the doubly-fed asynchronous machine controller.