H02J2300/28

ENERGY TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND WIND FARM
20220352724 · 2022-11-03 ·

An energy transmission system is provided for a power generation plant including. plural distributed power generation devices and a flow battery system that includes plural charging stacks including electrochemical flow, wherein each charging stack is associated with one or a group of the power generation devices of the power generation plant and wherein each charging stack is configured to receive electrical energy produced by the associated power generation device or group of power generation devices and to energi/e an electrolyte of the flow battery system by the received electrical energy; a central storage unit configured to store the electrolyte of the flow battery system; a discharging stack including electrochemical flow cells, wherein the discharging stack is configured to extract electrical energy from the electrolyte and to provide the electrical energy to a power gri A wind farm including wind turbines and including such energy transmission system is further provided.

A NACELLE FOR A WIND TURBINE
20220349390 · 2022-11-03 ·

A wind turbine nacelle configured for mounting on a wind turbine tower and for supporting a rotor-supporting assembly, the nacelle comprising a main unit, and at least one auxiliary unit. The auxiliary unit accommodates at least one operative component, e.g. a converter, a transformer, an electrolysis cell, or a battery. An operative component having a similar function is accommodated in another auxiliary unit which thereby facilitate shared operation, and easy and fast maintenance or replacement of the operative component.

System and method for controlling wind turbine converters during high voltage ride through events

A method for controlling a power converter of a wind turbine power system connected to an electrical grid. The wind turbine power system has a generator and the power converter has rotor-side converter and a line-side converter. The method includes monitoring an electrical parameter of at least one of the wind turbine power system or the electrical grid. In response to detecting a transient event in the electrical grid, the method includes temporarily disabling the line-side converter of the power converter from the electrical grid. Either during the transient event or after the transient event is over, the method includes implementing a control action for the line-side converter of the power converter. Further, the method includes enabling the line-side converter of the power converter to the electrical grid.

A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A RENEWABLE POWER PLANT DURING VOLTAGE EVENTS

Controlling a current injected to a power grid from a renewable power plant, in response to a voltage event in the power grid At least a current at a point of common coupling between the renewable power plant and the power grid is determined and provided to a power plant controller (PPC). The power PPC derives individual current setpoint corrections for at least some wind turbines, based on the determined current, and dispatches each derived current setpoint correction to wind turbine controllers of the corresponding wind turbines. The wind turbine controllers control a current output of the respective wind turbines, based on measurements of current and/or voltage at a point of connection between the wind turbine and an internal grid of the renewable power plant, and by taking into account the dispatched current setpoint correction .

CHARGING SYSTEM
20220348099 · 2022-11-03 · ·

A charging system which charges a power storage device mounted on a moving object, includes: an electric power conversion device that converts electric power supplied from a commercial power supply; a kinetic energy storage device that stores kinetic energy; and a rotary electric machine that is electrically connected to the electric power conversion device and is mechanically connected to the kinetic energy storage device.

METHOD FOR FEEDING ELECTRICAL POWER INTO AN ELECTRICAL SUPPLY GRID
20220352723 · 2022-11-03 ·

A method for exchanging electrical power between an infeed unit, in particular a wind power installation or a wind farm, and an electrical supply grid at a grid connection point is provided. The exchange comprises exchanging active and reactive power, and the exchange of the active power is controlled based on a frequency-dependent and voltage-dependent active power control function. The active power control function specifies an additional active power to be fed in based on a captured grid frequency and a captured grid voltage. The exchange of the reactive power is controlled based on a frequency-dependent and voltage-dependent reactive power control function, where the reactive power control function specifies an additional reactive power to be fed in based on the captured grid frequency and the captured grid voltage. The control functions are set based on at least one grid characteristic and/or at least one grid state of the grid.

MICROGRID WITH AUTOMATIC LOAD SHARING CONTROL DURING OFF-GRID STANDALONE OPERATION
20220352725 · 2022-11-03 ·

Various embodiments include methods and systems for managing electric power demand distribution across electric power generators in a microgrid. The system may include electric power generator clusters each having electric power generators, electric power output units each electrically connected to at least one of the electric power generator clusters, an energy storage unit electrically connected to an electric power output unit, and a control device. The control device may be configured to determine whether an energy availability of the energy storage unit is less than an energy availability threshold, calculate a sharing multiplication factor for an electric power generator cluster in response to determining that the energy availability of the energy storage unit is less than an energy availability threshold, and calculate a sharing electric power demand for the electric power generator cluster using the sharing multiplication factor.

METHOD FOR PHASE-SEPARATED OVERCURRENT PROTECTION OF A THREE-PHASE BRIDGE CIRCUIT

Disclosed is a method for operating a three-phase inverter on a three-phase load. The three-phase inverter has a direct voltage intermediate circuit, at least one three-phase bridge circuit, and at least one control unit for controlling the bridge circuit. In the at least one bridge circuit, at least two power switches per phase are provided, which are connected in series parallel to the direct voltage intermediate circuit. Depending on predefined target voltage values of the three phases of the inverter, the power switches of each individual phase are actuated via the control unit such that a three-phase alternating voltage is generated on the three-phase load via switching operations of the power switches. Very good dynamic control behaviour can be achieved despite cost-effective dimensioning of the IGBT power switches of the three-phase bridge circuit.

METHOD AND WIND ENERGY SYSTEM FOR FEEDING ELECTRIC POWER INTO AN ELECTRICITY SUPPLY GRID
20220344943 · 2022-10-27 ·

Provided is a method for feeding electric power into an electricity supply grid via a connection node by way of a converter-controlled infeed unit, in particular by way of a wind power installation or a wind farm. The grid has a grid voltage and a grid frequency and is characterized by a grid nominal voltage and a grid nominal frequency. The grid voltage of the grid is acquired, a delayed differential angle is ascertained on the basis of the acquired grid voltage. The delayed differential angle corresponds to a difference between an acquired phase signal that indicates a temporal profile of a phase angle of the grid voltage and a phase signal that is delayed with respect to the acquired phase signal. A grid impedance effective for the connection node is acquired, and an infeed power is predefined based on the delayed differential angle and based on the impedance.

Systems and methods for connecting energy sources to power distribution network
11611220 · 2023-03-21 · ·

A device includes at least one isolating transformer. An input is coupled to the at least one isolating transformer and configured to receive input from an energy source. At least one power switch is coupled to the isolating transformer. A diode is coupled to the at least one isolating transformer. An energy storage medium is coupled to the diode. An inverter includes one or more inverter switches, an inverter input, and an inverter output. The inverter input is coupled to the diode and the energy storage medium. The inverter output is configured to be coupled to the power network, and the inverter is configured to create AC power for distribution to the power network. A controller is configured to modulate the at least one power switch to control power flow from the input and to modulate the state of the inverter switches to control power flow to the power network.