Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Yogesh Popatlal Patel

Lixiang Wei

Bruce W Weiss

Jeremy Jon Keegan

Rangarajan M Tallam

Steven C Kaishian

Brian Patrick Brown

Michael William Loth

Doyle F Busse

Jiangang Hu

Russel J Kerkman

Richard Lukaszewski

Haihui Lu

Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Ahmed

Mark G Phillips

Robert Michael Michalski

James Allen Carter

Shaofeng Zhang

Christian S Sartler

Andrew J Roberts

James J Campbell

Bruce William Weiss

Christian Sartler

Power converters, protection systems and methods to protect a precharge circuit in which a precharge resistor voltage is indirectly monitored during a normal operating mode, and a rectifier and an inverter are selectively disabled in response to the indirectly measured precharge resistor voltage indicating a fault in a precharge circuit SCR.

SCR based AC precharge protection

Bus connector system

An electrical bus assembly includes a frame and a plurality of bus bar carriers connected to the frame. The bus bars are supported by the bus bar carriers in parallel spaced-apart relation. A first retainer cap is secured to a first one of the plurality of bus bar carriers located adjacent a first end of the frame. A second retainer cap is secured to a second one of the plurality of bus bar carriers located adjacent a second end of the frame. The first and second retainer caps limit axial movement of the bus bars relative to the plurality of carriers sufficiently to prevent escape of the bus bars from the carriers. A bus bar connector is also disclosed for supplying power to or from the bus bars. An electrical bus system includes a first and second bus bar assemblies and a jumper connector assembly.

Multi-drive common control bus connector system

Methods and apparatus are presented for controlling a power converter to protect input filter inductors from overheating, in which an active front end (AFE) rectifier is operated in a boost mode to provide a boosted DC voltage at a derated output current value selected according to the DC bus voltage boost amount corresponding to a maximum load condition for which the filter inductors will not overheat.

Active front end power converter with boost mode derating to protect filter inductor

Disclosed examples include power conversion systems, computer readable mediums and methods for mitigating input filter resonance, in which a controller operates an active front end (AFE) rectifier in a first mode to turn a single rectifier switching device on and off and measures a filter voltage or current signal while all of the rectifier switches are off. The controller determines a resonant frequency based on a transient response of the measured voltage or current signal, and selectively adjusts a rectifier control parameter to mitigate filter resonance based on the resonant frequency.

Motor drive with resonance detection and impedance computation

Control apparatus, techniques and computer readable mediums are presented to mitigate LCL filter resonance issue for voltage source converters. Two level voltage source converter with and without passive damping of LCL filter are selected for the comparative study. Control algorithms are presented to estimate the source impedance based on variable carrier PWM. Estimated source impedance is used to tune the control of the VSC to avoid the resonance of LCL filter has been presented. In situations in which LCL resonance cannot be avoided by tuning the control parameters, energy efficient techniques are disclosed to provide selective passive damping to facilitate continued power conversion system operation without significant adverse impact on system performance.

LCL filter resonance mitigation technique for voltage source converters

Power conversion systems, filter circuits and integrated filter resistor and inductor apparatus are presented, in which a damping resistor is integrated with a filter inductor by winding joined resistor winding portions proximate to one another at least partially around a filter inductor core leg to form an integrated filter resistor and inductor apparatus for interconnection with filter capacitors to provide an input filter or an output filter for a motor drive or other power conversion system.

Motor drive with LCL filter inductor with built-in passive damping resistor for AFE rectifier

Precharging systems and methods are presented for precharging a DC bus circuit in a power conversion system, in which precharging current is connected through a precharging resistance coupled between only a single AC input line and the DC bus circuit when the DC bus voltage is less than a non-zero threshold, and a controller individually activates controllable rectifier switching devices when the DC bus voltages greater than or equal to the threshold using DC gating or pulse width modulation to selectively provide a bypass path around the precharging resistance for normal load currents in the power conversion system.

Precharging apparatus and power converter

Power conversion systems and methods are presented for detecting filter capacitor resonance conditions in a power conversion system in which filter currents are measured and filtered using a bandpass filter, and one or more computed mean, RMS, and/or Fourier transform values are computed based on the filtered value(s). The computed measurement value or values are compared with a predetermined threshold and a suspected filter capacitor resonance condition is selectively identified based on comparison result.

Power converter resonance detection apparatus and method

Power conversion systems and methods are presented for detecting input filter capacitor degradation or approach of end of operational life based on filter capacitor current measurements using single and/or dual threshold comparisons for computed instantaneous sum of squares of filter currents or power values.

Filter capacitor degradation detection apparatus and method

Power converter modules and parallel conversion systems are presented in which the modules are provided in a rollable enclosure having AC and DC electrical connections, and an interior including a switching circuit with switching devices individually connected between a corresponding AC node and a corresponding DC node for operation as either a rectifier or an inverter and an internal filter circuit with inductors individually connected between a corresponding AC node of the switching circuit and a corresponding AC electrical connection, with a built-in blower or fan to cool the filter circuit during operation.

Multifunction power converter with option for integrated magnetics

Systems and methods for testing a motor drive are disclosed. The techniques enhance motor drive testing by not using a dyne-unit, thereby reducing the initial installation costs, maintenance costs, and size of the setup. The setup may include a rectifier and an inverter configured to operate in an active-reactive power control mode during testing under a simulated load by generating the corresponding active (P) and reactive (Q) power (e.g., torque and flux, respectively). The active-reactive power control mode may receive a desired P and Q and determine one or more gate drive signals to provide to switches in the rectifier and/or the inverter based on the desired P and Q, where the gate drive signals are configured to operate the rectifier and/or the inverter under a simulated load. The gate drive signals may be transmitted to the rectifier and/or the inverter accordingly.

Systems and methods for testing motor drives

Systems and methods are provided for pre-charging the DC bus on a motor drive. Pre-charging techniques involve pre-charge circuitry including a manual switch, an automatic switch, and pre-charge control circuitry to switch the automatic switch between pre-charge and pre-charge bypass modes in response to an initialized pre-charge operation, input voltage sags, and so forth. In some embodiments, the pre-charge operation may be initialized by switching the manual switch closed. In some embodiments, the pre-charge operation may also be initialized by a detected voltage sag on the DC bus. The pre-charge circuitry may also be configured to disconnect to isolate a motor drive from the common DC bus under certain fault conditions.

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Grafton, WI, United States of America

Yogesh Popatlal Patel