METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING AN ELECTRICAL VOLTAGE IN A SUPPLY NETWORK
20180219376 ยท 2018-08-02
Inventors
- Christian Strafiel (Aurich, DE)
- S?nke Engelken (Bremen, DE)
- Ingo Mackensen (Aurich, DE)
- Stefan Gertjegerdes (Aurich, DE)
Cpc classification
F03D17/00
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
G05B19/05
PHYSICS
G01R25/00
PHYSICS
F03D9/255
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Y02E10/72
GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
H02J3/38
ELECTRICITY
F03D7/044
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Y02E10/76
GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
H02M1/12
ELECTRICITY
G01R19/2513
PHYSICS
H02J3/24
ELECTRICITY
International classification
F03D17/00
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F03D7/04
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F03D9/25
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
G01R25/00
PHYSICS
H02M1/12
ELECTRICITY
G05B19/05
PHYSICS
Abstract
A method for recording the magnitude and phase of the electrical voltage in an electrical three-phase supply network for a fundamental and at least one harmonic is provided. The method includes measuring an electrical three-phase voltage of the supply network, transforming the measured voltage values into polar coordinates using a rotating voltage phasor for the fundamental as a measured reference phasor, and respectively observing values of at least one voltage phasor for the fundamental and of at least one voltage phasor for at least one harmonic to be recorded with the aid of a state observer, and tracking the observed values on the basis of the measured reference phasor.
Claims
1. A method for recording a magnitude and phase of electrical voltage in an electrical three-phase supply network for a fundamental and at least one harmonic, the method comprising: measuring an electrical three-phase voltage of the supply network, transforming measured voltage values into polar coordinates using a rotating voltage phasor for the fundamental as a measured reference phasor, respectively observing, at least in part by a state observer, values of at least one voltage phasor for the fundamental and of at least one voltage phasor for at least one harmonic to be recorded, and tracking the observed values based on the measured reference phasor.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the state observer operates based on a recorded network frequency and the recorded network frequency is input to the state observer as an input variable.
3. The method according to claim 2, comprising: selecting, based on the recorded network frequency, an up-to-date observer matrix from a plurality of pre-calculated observer matrices, and observing, by the state observer, the values of the voltage phasors using the up-to-date observer matrix.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the state observer is a Kalman filter.
5. The method according to claim 1, comprising: recording, by the state observer, a positive-sequence system and a negative-sequence system for the fundamental and for each harmonic to be recorded, respectively.
6. The method according to claim 1, comprising: observing a voltage phasor for a positive-sequence system and a voltage phasor for a negative-sequence system, and determining the fundamental and each harmonic to be recorded based on the voltage phasor for the positive-sequence system and the voltage phasor for the negative-sequence system, respectively.
7. The method according to claim 1, comprising: measuring the electrical three-phase voltage of the supply network at a transformer connected to the electrical supply network.
8. The method according to claim 1, comprising: transforming the measured voltage values into polar coordinates using a Clarke transformation that assumes that the measured voltages are free of a zero-sequence system.
9. The method according to claim 1, comprising: recording the at least one harmonic, and producing an electrical current for feeding into the electrical supply network, the electrical current comprising a compensation current component in order to reduce the at least one recorded harmonic.
10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the compensation current component has at least one current harmonic and a current harmonic of the at least one current harmonic is respectively determined by an amplitude and a phase and based on the observed harmonics of the recorded voltage.
11. The method according to claim 10, comprising: adjusting, using a controller, an amplitude of the current harmonic of the compensation current component, and receiving, by the controller, as an input signal representative of a difference between a desired voltage value and an observed actual voltage value of the harmonic of the recorded voltage.
12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the controller is selected from a list comprising: a PID controller, a PI controller, a P controller, and a PD controller.
13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the compensation current component is based on current harmonics as positive-sequence system and negative-sequence system components, respectively.
14. An inverter configured to: produce an electrical current for feeding into an electrical supply network, the electrical current comprising a compensation current component for reducing at least one recorded harmonic, wherein an electrical three-phase voltage of the electrical supply network is measured and transformed into polar coordinates using a rotating voltage phasor for a fundamental as a measured reference phasor, and wherein a state observer respectively observes values of at least one voltage phasor for the fundamental and of at least one voltage phasor for at least one harmonic, and wherein the observed values are tracked based on the measured reference phasor.
15. A wind power installation having the inverter according to claim 14.
16. A wind power installation configured to operate according to the method of claim 1.
17. The method according to claim 5, comprising: recording, by the state observer, a DC component.
18. The method according to claim 6, comprising: determining a DC component based on a voltage phasor, and recording the DC component.
19. The method according to claim 1, wherein the electrical three-phase voltage of the supply network is measured at a side of the transformer that electrically faces a wind power installation which feeds the electrical supply network via the transformer.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS
[0039] The invention is now explained in more detail below by way of example using exemplary embodiments and with reference to the accompanying figures.
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
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[0046] The measured voltage is also input to a frequency determination block 208 which determines the frequency f, namely the network frequency of the supply network 202, from the measured voltage values. The frequency is therefore determined by this frequency determination block 208 by means of an algorithm which is independent of the Kalman filter. A filter for determining the network frequency from a space vector voltage angle can be used here, for example. Alternatively, a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of the three voltage values is preferably used to determine a filtered angle of the network voltage. A frequency signal can in turn be extracted from said filtered angle by means of suitable filtering. The advantage of using the angle obtained from the DFT over using the space vector angle is the filter effect in the case of integer harmonics of the fundamental.
[0047] It is pointed out that the block diagram in
[0048] The individual functions of the illustrated blocks need not necessarily be carried out in such a separate block but can also be implemented together in a microprocessor or another computing unit.
[0049] In any case, the transformed polar coordinates U.sub.?,? and the recorded network frequency f are input to the Kalman filter block 210. The Kalman filter block 210 is therefore a filter which determines the recorded states x as the output variable and outputs them. These recorded states which are represented here by this state vector x may comprise, in particular, values of voltage phasors for a DC component, a positive-sequence system and a negative-sequence system of the fundamental, respectively, and a positive-sequence system and a negative-sequence system of each recorded harmonic, respectively. If the voltage up to the harmonic of the 25th order is considered, for example, in which case the first order would be the fundamental, this state vector x may comprise 102 values. This number results from two values for the DC component, namely the real part and the imaginary part which are referred to as u.sub.?DC and u.sub.?DC. Two values for the positive-sequence system and two values for the negative-sequence system, namely the real part and the imaginary part of the phasor in each case, result for the fundamental and each harmonic. For the fundamental, as the first order, these values are then the values u.sub.?(1+) and u.sub.?(1+) for the positive-sequence system and accordingly the values u.sub.?(1?) and u.sub.?(1?) for the negative-sequence system. Four values may also be analogously provided for each further order.
[0050] These values, that is to say this state vector recorded in this manner, can then be used to produce current for feeding electrical current into the supply network 202.
[0051] Details of the Kalman filter block 210 are schematically explained in
[0052] The system matrix A(f) is likewise determined in the system matrix block 304 on the basis of the frequency. In this case, the system matrix is calculated in a known manner in the system matrix block 304.
[0053] The system states x to be recorded are fundamentally continuously recalculated in the update block 306. In this case, this update block 306 behaves approximately like a system-describing model, in which case the respectively currently measured voltage U.sub.?,? transformed into polar coordinates is also taken into account for the purpose of tracking or adjustment, to express it clearly.
[0054] In addition, the observer matrix K(f) is also required for this purpose and is always received by the update block 306 for this purpose from the observer matrix block 302 in an up-to-date form. A matrix C describing the system is likewise needed and is therefore illustrated as an input to the update block 306. The updated state vector x(k+1) is also used. This updated state vector x(k+1) is calculated from the last state vector x(k) and the system matrix A(f) in the state block 308. The state block 308 uses the system matrix A(f) for this purpose, the state block receiving said system matrix from the system matrix block 304 in an up-to-date form in each case. The state block 308 receives the old state vector x(k) from the update block 306 in an up-to-date form.
[0055] As already described above, the updated state vector x(k+1) is therefore likewise considered to be an input variable for the update block 306. An initialization process can be carried out in the initialization block 310 for this updated state vector x(k+1), in particular for the purpose of starting the process.
[0056] The Kalman filter 210 can therefore now output the respectively recorded state vector x(k) as the state vector x. This state vector can possibly also be subjected to a transformation, possibly also only in the sense of multiplication by a constant factor in the transformation block 312. In that case, the state vector x illustrated in
[0057] This state vector x can now contain values for the DC component, phasor of the fundamental and phasor of harmonics, which can be used to determine currents to be fed in. This is illustrated in
[0058] The structure in
[0059] This inverter 410 produces a three-phase current i.sub.1,2,3 which can be fed into the supply network 402 via this transformer 404.
[0060] It is now proposed to record voltage and frequency using a symbolically illustrated measuring sensor 412 and to supply them to a measuring block 414. The measuring block 414, together with the measuring sensor 412, can correspond to the measuring arrangement 201 in
[0061] The measuring block 414 can then output, as an output variable, the state vector x which can contain values for the DC component, the fundamental and the harmonic, in particular also for a positive-sequence system and a negative-sequence system in each case, as explained above with respect to
[0062] These values, that is to say the state vector x, can then be input to the control block 416 which can contain a controller, for example. Deviations can also be calculated for each harmonic in this control block 416 on the basis of the recorded voltage values, which are therefore contained in the state vector x, and can be used to determine the corresponding current values. In particular, a compensation current component is determined from the deviations or in another manner from the recorded harmonics of the voltage in each case, that is to say for each harmonic. This one compensation current component or this plurality of compensation current components is/are then superimposed on the current value for the fundamental, which is namely intended to be used to feed in electrical power, possibly also electrical reactive power.
[0063] The control block 416 then finally determines desired current values i.sub.s which are input as such to the inverter 410. These desired current values take into account the current to be fed in together with superimposition, that is to say the fundamental and harmonic(s). The inverter 410 can then produce the corresponding current values on the basis of these desired current values i.sub.s. Alternatively, a provision may be made for the fundamental of the current to be fed in and the at least one harmonic to be superimposed to be produced separately and to then be superimposed, that is to say added. For this purpose, it is proposed to provide a plurality of inverters, at least one of which produces the fundamental or part of the latter and at least one other of which produces the at least one harmonic or part of the latter.
[0064] In modern power systems, production units and consumers are being increasingly connected to the transmission or distribution network via frequency converters or rectifiers. The switching components of these power electronic systems result in contamination of the ideally sinusoidal 50 Hz or 60 Hz AC voltage by harmonics in the frequency range of up to approximately 10 kHz. These harmonics load different equipment in the power systems and are therefore attenuated by means of active or passive filters in the event of excessive occurrence.
[0065] In some power systems, wind power installations already provide a significant part of the power produced. They are predominantly connected to the network by means of frequency converters and therefore, in the worst-case scenario, likewise contribute to harmonics in the network.
[0066] Described herein is a method for detecting and compensating for harmonics in the network voltage of a power system using a wind power installation connected to this system via a full converter. The wind power installation is therefore enabled to feed in a current in order to reduce voltage harmonics or negative-sequence system voltages. These can be caused by other production units or consumers, for example.
[0067] For this purpose, the following method is proposed, in particular:
[0068] 1. Measuring the terminal voltages at the installation transformer on the wind power installation side.
[0069] 2. Converting the three terminal voltages into a rotating voltage phasor using the Clarke transformation assuming that the voltages are free of the zero-sequence system, the voltage phasor being given by magnitude and phase.
[0070] 3. Using a filter to observe the DC component and the positive-sequence system and negative-sequence system voltages of multiples of the network frequency from the first order, that is to say the fundamental, to a defined highest possible harmonic order. In this case, a further input to the filter is a network frequency determined in another manner. The filter may be in the form of a state observer, in particular a Kalman filter.
[0071] 4. Calculating a desired compensation current in harmonic orders selected for compensation via a control or regulating rule. The adjustment is preferentially made via a proportional factor k.sub.i which, for the ith order of the voltage, defines a compensation current of k.sub.i A to be applied for each V of voltage harmonic amplitude. A further preferred calculation of the compensation current is the calculation by applying a PID controller to the difference between a desired voltage, for example 0 V, and the actual voltage of the corresponding component. With a sufficient ability of the converter to set the current, it is therefore ideally possible to completely compensate for harmonic or negative-sequence system voltages.
[0072] 5. Setting the compensation current in addition to the desired active and reactive current in the fundamental via a current control method. A hysteresis current controller, also referred to as a tolerance band controller, is preferably used since very fast reaction times and a high degree of robustness with respect to variable network parameters can be achieved here.
[0073] Particular attention must be paid to the suitable filtering of the voltage phasors in order to quickly and precisely determine correct voltage amplitudes in the different frequency ranges, namely DC voltages, the fundamental and harmonics.
[0074] Existing methods for determining harmonic components in the voltage are often based on recursively formulated discrete Fourier transforms of the measurement variables. They are distinguished by a high degree of numerical robustness. However, the filter quality is ensured only when the sampling frequency is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency of the measurement signal and of the spacing between two frequency components to be identified. Since the network frequency in a power system is generally subject to slight fluctuations and, in addition, the ability to use a method in systems having a different rated frequency (for example 50 and 60 Hz) is an advantage, a high filter quality for different network frequencies and a constant sampling rate is of great importance for the widest possible use.
[0075] Different solutions to this problem are known, but all have sometimes considerable disadvantages. One possibility is to change the sampling rate of the algorithm on the basis of the network frequency, as can be gathered from reference [1]. However, such a change in the sampling rate is often not desired since other algorithms are also executed on the computing unit, for which a fixed sampling rate is important, as is the case in a time-discrete controller, for example. Another possibility is to design a phase or frequency locked loop, as can be gathered from reference [2]. However, either a lack of filter effect in the case of abnormal network states can be observed in these algorithms, particularly in connection with a phase locked loop, or considerable stability problems can be observed, in particular in the case of low sampling rates in the digital implementation, in particular in connection with a frequency locked loop.
[0076] A third solution category is constituted by Kalman filters which are designed on the basis of state space models of the dynamic response of the network voltages. In this case, it is possible to distinguish between filters for a constant network frequency, as can be gathered from reference [3], in which a linear dynamic response results, and filters for a variable network frequency, as can be gathered from reference [4], which are based on non-linear differential equations. The latter filters recursively calculate the observer matrix which is optimum under the given noise parameters by using a state space description based on the up-to-date state variables in the synthesis equations in each time step. With corresponding parameterization, excellent filter properties result in this case even with a varying network frequency and under abnormal network conditions, for example asymmetrical voltages or voltages heavily loaded with harmonics, since all of these effects can be taken into account in the state space description of the system.
[0077] One disadvantage of the method of the extended Kalman filter for observing state variables of a non-linear system is, however, the recursive calculation of the observer matrix. For this purpose, it is necessary to multiply the matrices of the state space descriptions by one another and by vectors of the measurement and state variables several times in each computing step. In the case of a large filter dimension for taking into account numerous harmonic orders, this has a negative effect on the required computing times. With a restricted computing capacity, execution within the cycle time limited by the sampling rate is no longer possible under certain circumstances.
[0078] In contrast, assuming that the network frequency is constant, there is the possibility of pre-calculating the observer matrix for the Kalman filter by solving an algebraic Riccati equation owing to the time-invariant and linear system equations in this case, which can be gathered from reference [3]. According to at least one embodiment, the pre-calculation of the observer matrix is proposed here for different network frequencies.
[0079] According to reference [3], the following frequency-dependent differential equation system is used as the basis for deriving the observer implementation:
[0080] In these equations, k denotes the instantaneous execution step, T.sub.S denotes the sampling time of the discrete implementation of the algorithm, f denotes the network frequency, i denotes an index which assumes values of 1 to the number of the highest harmonic order N calculated in the observer, u.sub.DC?(k)/u.sub.DC?(k) denote the alpha and beta DC voltage components, u.sub.i(1)?(k)/u.sub.i(1)?(k) denote the alpha and beta positive-sequence system voltage components of the ith order (that is to say for i=1 fundamental, for i>1 harmonic components) and u.sub.i(2)?(k)/u.sub.i(2)?(k) denote the alpha and beta negative-sequence system voltage components of the ith order.
[0081] On the basis of these equations, an observer matrix K can be calculated for each network frequency f and can then be used in a standard observer implementation for observing the states. The equation for calculating the Kalman observer matrix using the state and measurement signal noise covariance matrices Q and R is known, for example from reference [6].
[0082] Using the matrix K, the state estimation is updated in each time step according to the known equation
x(k|k)=x(k|k?1)+K*(y(k)?C*x(k|k?1))
[0083] In this case, x(k|k) denotes the state estimation from the instantaneous time step and x(k|k?1) denotes the state estimation for the instantaneous time step from the last time step.
[0084] According to at least one embodiment, in the method used here, the observer matrix is precalculated for a given state space description and a defined measurement and state noise level for different network frequencies comprising the entire desired operating range. At the execution time, the frequency is determined by means of an algorithm which is independent of the Kalman filter. Such an algorithm can be implemented by means of a frequency determination block, such as a frequency determination block illustrated in the figures. In this case, a suitable filter, for example, can be used to determine the network frequency from a space vector voltage angle. This frequency signal is used to select an observer matrix matching this frequency. In this case, it is possible to carry out interpolation in order to increase the resolution between different stored observer matrices at different frequencies.
[0085] This method therefore makes it possible to precisely and quickly calculate numerous harmonics of the network voltage in the positive-sequence system and negative-sequence system with a computing complexity which is considerably reduced in comparison with the non-linear, extended Kalman filter. Unlike when using frequency locked loops, as is also described in reference [5] using a Kalman filter for example, the algorithm described here does not use a closed loop to determine the network frequency which, owing to its non-linear dynamic response which is difficult to analyze, is always a stability risk for the filter algorithm. Rather, the network frequency is determined separately and is used only to select the observer matrix.
[0086] Furthermore, the method described above can also be used to determine harmonics in the current.
[0087] The above-mentioned references are as follows:
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