High-frequency switching type conversion device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9882508-B2
Application number	US-201415032197-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2014
Priority date	Jan 10, 2014
Publication date	Jan 30, 2018
Grant date	Jan 30, 2018

Abstract

Provided is a conversion device that converts DC power provided from a DC power supply, to AC power and supplies the AC power to a load, the conversion device including: a filter circuit connected to the load and including an AC reactor and a first capacitor; a DC/AC inverter connected to the load via the filter circuit; a DC/DC converter provided between the DC power supply and the DC/AC inverter; a second capacitor provided between the DC/AC inverter and the DC/DC converter; and a control unit configured to set a current target value for the DC/DC converter to thereby be synchronized with current of the AC power, based on voltage of the AC power, voltage variation due to current flowing through the AC reactor and an impedance thereof, reactive currents respectively flowing through the first capacitor and the second capacitor, and voltage of the DC power.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A high-frequency switching type conversion device that converts DC power provided from a DC power supply, to AC power and supplies the AC power to a load, the conversion device comprising:
a filter circuit connected to the load and including an AC reactor and a first capacitor;
a DC/AC inverter connected to the load via the filter circuit;
a DC/DC converter provided between the DC power supply and the DC/AC inverter;
a second capacitor provided between the DC/AC inverter and the DC/DC converter; and
a control unit configured to control the DC/DC converter and the DC/AC inverter to alternately have a stop period of high-frequency switching, the control unit being configured to set a current target value for the DC/DC converter to thereby be synchronized with current of the AC power, based on voltage of the AC power, voltage variation due to current flowing through the AC reactor and an impedance of the AC reactor, reactive currents respectively flowing through the first capacitor and the second capacitor, and voltage of the DC power,

wherein, in a case where an output current target value for the load is Ia*, an electrostatic capacitance of the first capacitor is Ca, a voltage value of the AC power is Va, voltage on the DC power supply side is V DC , and a Laplace operator is s, the control unit sets an AC output current target value Iinv* for the DC/AC inverter at a circuit connection point between the filter circuit and the DC/AC inverter.

2. The conversion device according to claim 1 , wherein in a case where an output current target value for the load is Ia*, an electrostatic capacitance of the first capacitor is Ca, a voltage value of the AC power is Va, voltage on the DC power supply side is VDC, and an Laplace operator is s, the control unit sets an AC output current target value Iinv* for the DC/AC inverter at a circuit connection point between the filter circuit and the DC/AC inverter, as follows “this should be” in the case where the output current target value for the load is Ia*, the electrostatic capacitance of the first capacitor is Ca, the voltage value of the AC power is Va, voltage on the DC power supply side is V DC , and the Laplace operator is s, the control unit sets the AC output current target value Iinv* for the DC/AC inverter at the circuit connection point between the filter circuit and the DC/AC inverter, as follows
Iinv*=Ia*+sCaVa,
in a case where an impedance of the AC reactor is Za, the control unit sets an AC output voltage target value Vinv* for the DC/AC inverter at the circuit connection point, as follows:
Vinv*=Va+ZaIinv*,

the control unit sets the greater one of the voltage V DC and an absolute value of the AC output voltage target value Vinv* for the DC/AC inverter, as an output voltage target value Vo* for the DC/DC converter, and
in a case where an electrostatic capacitance of the second capacitor is C, the control unit sets a current target value Iin* for the DC/DC converter, as follows:
Iin *={( Iinv*×Vinv *)+( sCVo *)× Vo*}/V DC .

3. The conversion device according to claim 2 , wherein the DC/DC converter includes a DC reactor, and in a case where voltage of the DC power supply is Vg, an impedance of the DC reactor is Z, and a current value of the DC/DC converter is Iin, (Vg−ZIin) is used as the voltage V DC .

4. The conversion device according to claim 3 , wherein the current value Iin of the DC/DC converter is set to a detection value of a current sensor or a calculation value obtained by Iinv*×Vinv*/Vg.

5. The conversion device according to claim 1 , wherein
the DC/AC inverter is controlled based on comparison between a reference value based on a target value and a detection value of AC output current of the DC/AC inverter, and
an output voltage target value for the DC/DC converter, and the DC/DC converter is controlled based on comparison between a reference value based on a current target value and a detection value of the DC/DC converter, and the output voltage target value for the DC/DC converter.

6. The conversion device according to claim 1 , wherein
the load is a commercial power system.

7. The conversion device according to claim 1 , wherein the DC power supply is a DC load, and the load is an AC power supply, and power is supplied from the AC power supply to the DC load.

8. The conversion device according to claim 1 , wherein
a SiC element is used for at least one of semiconductor switching elements included in the DC/DC converter and the DC/AC inverter.

9. The conversion device according to claim 2 , wherein
the DC/AC inverter is controlled based on comparison between a reference value based on a target value and a detection value of AC output current of the DC/AC inverter, and an output voltage target value for the DC/DC converter, and
the DC/DC converter is controlled based on comparison between a reference value based on a current target value and a detection value of the DC/DC converter, and the output voltage target value for the DC/DC converter.

10. The conversion device according to claim 3 , wherein
the DC/AC inverter is controlled based on comparison between a reference value based on a target value and a detection value of AC output current of the DC/AC inverter, and an output voltage target value for the DC/DC converter, and
the DC/DC converter is controlled based on comparison between a reference value based on a current target value and a detection value of the DC/DC converter, and the output voltage target value for the DC/DC converter.

11. The conversion device according to claim 4 , wherein
the DC/AC inverter is controlled based on comparison between a reference value based on a target value and a detection value of AC output current of the DC/AC inverter, and an output voltage target value for the DC/DC converter, and
the DC/DC converter is controlled based on comparison between a reference value based on a current target value and a detection value of the DC/DC converter, and the output voltage target value for the DC/DC converter.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Electric Industries

Inventors

• Ayai Naoki
• Akita Tetsuo
• Okumura Toshiaki
• Abiru Kenji

Classifications

• H02M1/08

  Circuits specially adapted for the generation of control voltages for semiconductor devices incorporated in static converters · CPC title

• H02M1/42

  Circuits or arrangements for compensating for or adjusting power factor in converters or inverters · CPC title

• H02M2001/0009

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H02M3/04

  by static converters · CPC title

• H02M2001/007

  Electricity · mapped topic