AC-DC-AC System

AC-DC-AC CONVERSION SYSTEM

Fig 1 : Showing the schematic diagram of Conversion system and grid feeding

DC Input
The basic circuit diagram shows the main components of the 300 kW converter. The terminals +/UGR have the dc voltage (app. 200 680V), that is being sieved in the UGR capacitor bank. The voltage above the capacitors is actively balanced in the DC Link Interface. Current in the upper power range will flow via bypass diode in the UZW intermediate circuit.

Step-up transformer
In the lower power range the step-up transformer will increase the UGR-voltage to app. 650V, which is then present in the UZW-intermediate circuit. Therefore the Step-up-IGBT switches continuously on and off in the kHz rage with a variable Pulse-interval-ratio. If the IGBT is switched on, a current will flow through the step-up choke. This will store energy in the choke. When the IGBT switches off, the briefly stored energy will be transferred into the UZWintermediate circuit via the Pass-diode. The higher voltage will result from the high no-load voltage of the step-up choke.

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UZW Intermediate Circuit

UZW-voltage lies above UZW capacitor bank. The capacitor voltage is here also balanced by the DC-link-interface.

Chopper (optional)
Surplus energy in the converter will result in an increased UZW voltage. Reasons could be e.g. grid faults (under-voltage, phase-jumps. The external chopper resistor can take on this surplus energy briefly and turn it into heat. The intermediate circuit voltage will be switched to the external resistor via chopper-IGBT.

Feeding IGBTs
These IGBTs create the three-phase alternating current 50Hz (or 60Hz) from the intermediate circuit current. The inverter control board will create the required pulse pattern. The sinusoidal current will be constantly monitored and controlled by the three LEM modules.

Grid Choke & Grid Filter

Filters the input sinus current.

Communication
The inverter control communicates via CAN-Bus protocol with the power control in the control cabinet. The optical waveguide connections will remain free and will currently only be used for Software-Update.

Grid Measurement and Zero Crossing :

As the grid measurement has been moved to the power control in the control cabinet, the grid zero crossing will go over its own optical waveguide to the converter. It is used for synchronizing to grid frequency and phase.

DC-Link Interface
The DC-Link Interface balances actively the voltages at the capacitor banks. It makes sure that the same voltage is on the plus and minus contacts of the capacitors. Also the contact for the UGR and UZW voltage measurement for the inverter control is here. The symmetry will be tested via optical waveguides. For switched off DC-interface the resistors are constantly switched to the capacitors.

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Power Supply
The power supply supplies all circuit boards in the converter with an alternating voltage of app. 40V with 30 kHz. There are 2 different alternating voltages (AC1 and AC2), which are created with different high level output transformers on the board. AC1 supplies only the inverter controlboard. AC2 is divided on the inverter control and supplies the drivers and the DC-Link-interface. The voltage to DC-Link-Interface will be switched by processor 1 via relay. Sinusoidal current without harmonics is fed into the grid through the high frequency ENERCON inverter. The power is generated by the micro and power electronics in such a manner that it follows the target value in amplitude and phase length. The current and phase angle can be selected freely. The phase angle between grid voltage and current (cosine angle) can be chosen via a data input. If this data input is not stipulated, the converter automatically assumes cosine angle. This means that only the real component of the output power is fed into the grid. Depending on the individual circumstances, another value can also be entered, for example 0.95 capacitive. The phase angle remains constant, at the value set, over the entire output range of the converter. If the converter is being used constantly a dynamic compensator for grid stabilization, the target value for cosine angle can be specified via the data line. The converter then follows this with virtually no time lapse. Since the electrical output of the converter can be controlled as a function of the prevailing grid voltage, the E-40 is ideally suited for connection to weak supply systems. Active and precise control provides support to the grid so that expensive reinforcement measures are often no longer required.

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