Wind power plant for feeding electrical power by means of full converters

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11855547-B2
Application number	US-201916768580-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 3, 2019
Priority date	Jan 3, 2018
Publication date	Dec 26, 2023
Grant date	Dec 26, 2023

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for feeding electrical power into an electrical supply grid. The method includes rectifying a first AC voltage of an electrical power, produced by a generator, into a first DC voltage and increasing the first DC voltage to a second DC voltage such that the second DC voltage has a step-up ratio in relation to the first DC voltage. Alternatively, the method includes rectifying the first AC voltage into the second DC voltage without producing the first DC voltage. The method includes inverting the second DC voltage into a second AC voltage for feeding electrical power into the electrical supply grid depending on an feed setpoint value and setting the second DC voltage depending on the feed setpoint value and actual value. The second DC voltage is increased depending on an increase in the feed setpoint voltage or actual value.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
generating a first DC voltage from a first AC voltage of generated electrical power generated by a generator, wherein generating the first DC voltage comprises:
passive rectifying the first AC voltage into a second DC voltage and stepping up the second DC voltage to the first DC voltage so that the first DC voltage has a step-up ratio relative to the second DC voltage,

inverting the first DC voltage into a second AC voltage for feeding the electrical power into an electrical supply grid depending on a feed set point value;
wherein the first DC voltage depends on the feed set point value and on a current passing through a power choke, wherein the first DC voltage is increased when the feed set point value increases; and
feeding the electrical power into the electrical supply grid via the power choke.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the setting the step-up ratio of the first DC voltage to the second DC voltage depends on the feed set point value; or
the passively rectifying the first AC voltage into the first DC voltage depends on the feed set point value.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the generating the first DC voltage comprises the passive rectifying, and wherein the step-up ratio is greater than 1 and less than 6.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the step-up ratio is less than 4.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the step-up ratio is set depending on the second DC voltage.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the inverting the first DC voltage into the second AC voltage comprises using a tolerance band method.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first DC voltage depends on power received from the electrical supply grid.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the power received from the electrical supply grid is reactive power.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the generator has an operating point depending on a prevailing wind or depending on a specification, and
the first DC voltage additionally depends on the operating point.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
a step-up converter is used for the stepping up the second DC voltage to the first DC voltage, and
the step-up converter is controlled depending on at least one criterion from a list including:
a harmonic content of a fed-in current;
an operating point of a feed-in;
a number of inverters used for inverting;
an operating point of the generator;
a reactive power set point value or an actual value of the reactive power;
a detected line voltage of the electrical supply grid;
a grid condition of the electrical supply grid;
a positive sequence component of the fed-in current;
a negative sequence component of the fed-in current;
an impedance of a power choke;
an excitation power of the generator when the generator is a separately excited synchronous generator;
a specification of a grid operator; and
grid sensitivity of the electrical supply grid.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1 , comprising:
determining the second DC voltage by directly measuring the second DC voltage or by detecting the generated electrical power generated by the generator,
wherein the second DC voltage is higher than 100 V and lower than 800 V.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the second DC voltage is lower than 400 V.

13. A method, comprising:
generating a first DC voltage from a first AC voltage of generated electrical power generated by a generator, wherein generating the first DC voltage comprises:
rectifying the first AC voltage into a second DC voltage and stepping up the second DC voltage to the first DC voltage so that the first DC voltage has a step-up ratio relative to the second DC voltage;

inverting the first DC voltage into a second AC voltage for feeding the electrical power into an electrical supply grid depending on a feed set point value;
wherein the first DC voltage depends on the feed set point value, wherein the first DC voltage is increased when the feed set point value increases;
wherein:
the step-up ratio sets the first DC voltage to be between 400 V and 1200 V; or
the rectifying the first AC voltage into the first DC voltage sets the first DC voltage to be between 400 V and 1200 V,

wherein:
the feed set point value is a reactive power set point value; or
the first DC voltage is set depending on a reactive current component of the electrical power fed into the electrical supply grid.

14. A wind power plant for feeding electrical power into an electrical supply grid, comprising:
a generator configured to generate electrical power and for outputting a first AC voltage;
a first rectifier configured to rectify the first AC voltage into a first DC voltage, and at least one step-up converter configured to step up the first DC voltage to a second DC voltage with a step-up ratio of the second DC voltage relative to the first DC voltage;
a controller configured to set the second DC voltage depending on a feed set point value, wherein the feed set point value depends on an electrical characteristic of the supply grid, wherein the second DC voltage is increased depending on an increase in the feed set point value;
at least one inverter configured to invert the second DC voltage into a second AC voltage for feeding the electrical power into the electrical supply grid depending on the feed set point value; and
a power choke connected downstream of the at least one inverter.

15. A wind park with a plurality of wind power plants including the wind power plant as claimed in claim 14 .

Assignees

• Wobben Properties Gmbh

Inventors

• Beekmann Alfred
• Mackensen Ingo
• Busker Kai

Classifications

• H02J2101/28

  Wind energy · CPC title

• H02M5/458 Primary

  using semiconductor devices only · CPC title

• F03D7/0284

  in relation to the state of the electric grid · CPC title

• F03D7/048

  controlling wind farms · CPC title

• H02J3/381

  Dispersed generators · CPC title