Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated

Toshiba Mitsubishi-electric Industrial Systems Corporation

Tokyo Electron Power Company Incorporated

Noriko Kawakami

Haruhisa Inokuchi

Hirokazu Suzuki

Kenichi Suzuki

Kentaro Suzuki

Yoshinori Tsuruma

Kazuhiro Nakajima

Tokihiro Umemura

Yukihisa Iijima

Tomotsugu Ishizuka

Shoichi Irokawa

Koji Sakamoto

Ken-Ichi Suzuki

A power conversion device includes a power conversion circuit and a control device. The control device includes a virtual power generation device model unit and a control signal generation unit. The virtual power generation device model unit includes: a motor model unit; an AVR model unit; an angular velocity difference acquisition unit; and a power generator model unit. The control signal generation unit is configured to generate the pulse width modulation signal based on the current command value and an output current value from the power conversion circuit.

Power conversion device with virtual power generation model

A power control device includes an electric power storage device connected across a power supply line for a load and including at least one electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) bank and a secondary battery combined with the EDLC bank, the EDLC bank including a plurality of parallel-connected rows of EDLC unit cells, each of the rows including a plurality of series-connected EDLC unit cells, and a control device controlling the electric power storage device so that when an input power to the electric power storage device is interrupted, the EDLC bank supplies electric power to the load for an initial period of the power interrupt and subsequently, the secondary battery supplies electric power to the load.

Power control device with electric double layer capacitor unit cells

A power conversion system including a plurality of converter transformers. AC side windings of the converter transformers are connected in series for connecting to an AC power system. The power conversion system further includes a plurality of series connected voltage source type self-commutated converters for converting AC power into DC power or DC power into AC power. Each of the voltage source type self-commutated converters is connected to one of DC side windings of the converter transformers, respectively. The power conversion system further includes a plurality of DC voltage sources. Each of DC output sides of the voltage source type self-commutated converters is connected to one of the DC voltage sources, respectively. The power conversion system further includes a control system for controlling the voltage source type self-commutated converters such that each of DC voltages of the voltage source type self-commutated converters follows to one of DC voltage reference values for the voltage source type self-commutated converters, respectively.

Power conversion system with series connected self-commutated converters

Accident detection circuit of a voltage-type self-excited power converter

A control system for a power conversion system composed of a plurality of power converters, each of which is connected between one of a plurality of AC power systems and a DC line to exchange an electric power between them, respectively. The control system is composed of a plurality of control units, each of which includes units for detecting an AC current flowing between the AC power system and the power converter, an AC voltage of the AC power system, and a DC voltage of the power converter, and a unit for detecting an active power and a reactive power exchanged between the power converter and the AC power system. Each of the control units further includes an active power control unit for generating an active current command so that the DC voltage drops with the increase of one of the active power and a DC current, a unit for setting a reactive power reference, a reactive power control unit for comparing the reactive power reference and the reactive power to obtain a reactive power difference and for generating a reactive current command so as to bring the reactive power difference close to zero, a current control unit for generating a plurality of output voltage commands so as to coincide the AC current to the active and reactive current commands, and a gate control unit for switching the semiconductor switching devices in the power converter based on the output voltage commands.

Control system for power conversion system

A control system for a power converter which is composed of a plurality of self-turn-off devices and is connected to an outer system through a transformer provided with a core. The control system includes an output voltage instruction value generating circuit for generating an instruction value for an output voltage of the power converter. The control system also includes a correction circuit for correcting the instruction value based on a magnetic flux relating value of the core of the transformer to generate a corrected instruction value for the output voltage of the power converter. The control system further includes a gate pulse generating circuit for generating a gate pulse based on the corrected instruction value. The gate pulse is applied to the self-turn-off devices of the power converter to control the output voltage of the power converter. Whereby DC magnetization of the transformer is suppressed even for the case when DC component is generated by the outer system.

Control system for power converter with prevention of DC magnetization

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Noriko Kawakami