Shutdown control system and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11303113-B2
Application number	US-201916579600-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2019
Priority date	Sep 28, 2018
Publication date	Apr 12, 2022
Grant date	Apr 12, 2022

Abstract

A shutdown control system and a shutdown control method are provided. A main circuit is a series circuit formed by connecting output ends of multiple shutdown circuits in series or a series-parallel circuit formed by connecting output ends of multiple such series circuits in parallel. Each of the multiple shutdown circuits is connected to at least one of direct current power supplies in a distributed power generation system. A control circuit includes a SCU, one or more ACUs, and multiple PCUs corresponding to the multiple shutdown circuits. The SCU and the ACU are configured to transmit respective mode control instructions when respective condition is satisfied. Each of the multiple PCUs is configured to obtain multiple criteria based on the mode control instructions, determine a target operation mode of a corresponding shutdown circuit, and control the shutdown circuit to operate in the target operation mode.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A shutdown control system, comprising:
a main circuit being a series circuit formed by connecting output ends of a plurality of shutdown circuits in series, or a series-parallel circuit formed by connecting output ends of a plurality of shutdown circuits in series to form a series circuit and connecting output ends of a plurality of the series circuits in parallel, wherein an input end of each of the plurality of shutdown circuits is connected to at least one of direct current power supplies in a distributed power generation system; and
a control circuit comprising a system control unit (SCU), one or more auxiliary control units (ACU), and a plurality of power source control units (PCU) corresponding to the plurality of shutdown circuits, wherein
the SCU is configured to transmit a first mode control instruction when a first condition is satisfied, and each of the ACUs is configured to transmit a second mode control instruction when a second condition is satisfied;
each of the plurality of PCUs is configured to obtain a plurality of criteria based on the first mode control instruction and the second mode control instruction, determine a target operation mode of a shutdown circuit corresponding to the PCU based on the plurality of criteria, and control the shutdown circuit corresponding to the PCU to operate in the target operation mode; and
the target operation mode comprises a security mode and a normal operation mode being a mode other than the security mode, and in the security mode, an output voltage of the shutdown circuit corresponding to the PCU is limited to control an output voltage of the series circuit to be in a security voltage range.

2. The shutdown control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the SCU is configured to periodically transmit a first communication signal as the first mode control instruction, and stop transmitting the first communication signal when receiving a first user command;
each of the ACUs is configured to periodically transmit a second communication signal as the second mode control instruction while detecting that the SCU periodically transmits the first communication signal, and stop transmitting the second communication signal when detecting that the SCU stops transmitting the first communication signal; and
each of the plurality of PCUs is configured to determine whether the PCU receives one of the first communication signal from the SCU and the second communication signal from the ACU during a preset time period, control the shutdown circuit corresponding to the PCU to operate in the normal operation mode if it is determined that the PCU receives one of the first communication signal from the SCU and the second communication signal from the ACU during the preset time period, and control the shutdown circuit corresponding to the PCU to operate in the security mode if it is determined that the PCU does not receive any one of the first communication signal from the SCU and the second communication signal from the ACU during the preset time period.

3. The shutdown control system according to claim 2 , wherein
each of the first communication signal and the second communication signal is a communication signal comprising an instruction indicating the normal operation mode;
the SCU is further configured to periodically transmit a communication signal comprising an instruction indicating the security mode in response to the first user command; and
each of the ACUs is further configured to periodically transmit a communication signal comprising an instruction indicating the security mode after detecting that the SCU stops transmitting the first communication signal.

4. The shutdown control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the SCU is configured to transmit a communication signal comprising an instruction indicating the normal operation mode in response to a second user command, and transmit a communication signal comprising an instruction indicating the security mode in response to a first user command, wherein each of the communication signal comprising the instruction indicating the normal operation mode and the communication signal comprising the instruction indicating the security mode functions as the first mode control instruction;
each of the ACUs is configured to transmit a communication signal comprising an instruction indicating the normal operation mode or an instruction indicating the security mode following the SCU; and
each of the plurality of PCUs is configured to control the shutdown circuit corresponding to the PCU to operate in the normal operation mode when receiving the communication signal comprising the instruction indicating the normal operation mode transmitted from one of the SCU and the ACUs, and control the shutdown circuit corresponding to the PCU to operate in the security mode when receiving the communication signal comprising the instruction indicating the security mode transmitted from one of the SCU and the ACUs.

5. The shutdown control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the SCU is configured to periodically transmit a first communication signal as the first mode control instruction, and stop transmitting the first communication signal when receiving a first user command;
each of the ACUs is configured to periodically transmit a communication signal comprising an instruction indicating the normal operation mode while detecting that the SCU periodically transmits the first communication signal, and periodically transmit a communication signal comprising an instruction indicating the security mode when detecting that the SCU stops transmitting the first communication signal, wherein each of the communication signal comprising the instruction indicating the normal operation mode and the communication signal comprising the instruction indicating the security mode functions as the second mode control instruction; and
each of the plurality of PCUs is configured to control the shutdown circuit corresponding to the PCU to operate in the security mode if one of a third condition and a fourth condition is satisfied, and control the shutdown circuit corresponding to the PCU to operate in the normal operation mode if none of the third condition and the fourth condition is satisfied, wherein the third condition is that the PCU neither receives the first communication signal from the SCU nor receives the communication signal comprising the instruction indicating the normal operation mode from any of the ACUs during a preset time period, and the fourth condition is that the PCU receives the communication signal comprising the instruction indicating the security mode from one of the ACUs.

6. The shutdown control system according to claim 2 , wherein in the shutdown control system, each of the ACUs is integrated into one of the plurality of PCUs, and each of the plurality of PCUs is integrated with one of the ACUs.

7. The shutdown control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the SCU is configured to periodically transmit a first communication signal as the first mode control instruction, and stop transmitting the first communication signal when receiving a first user command;
at least one of the ACUs is configured to take over from the SCU when detecting that a failure occurs in the SCU; and
each of the plurality of PCUs is configured to determine whether the PCU receives the first communication signal from one of the SCU and the ACUs during a preset time period, control the shutdown circuit corresponding to the PCU to operate in the normal operation mode if it is determined that the PCU receives the first communication signal from one of the SCU and the ACUs during the preset time period, and control the shutdown circuit corresponding to the PCU to operate in the security mode if i

Assignees

• Sungrow Power Supply Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yu Yanfei
• Ni Hua
• Yang Zongjun

Classifications

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