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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2018
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Ervin Spahic, Erlangen, DE;
Kilian Dallmer-Zerbe, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A converter configuration has a converter. The AC voltage side of which can be connected to an AC voltage grid and the DC voltage side of which can be connected to a storage configuration. The converter has a plurality of converter arms, which each have a series circuit of semiconductor switching modules, and the storage configuration is arranged in parallel with at least one of the converter arms. The storage configuration contains a multiplicity of series circuits of individual energy storage modules. Each series circuit extends between a first and a second DC voltage busbar such that the series circuits are connected in parallel with one another. The converter configuration further has a balancing apparatus for balancing energy storage module voltages of the energy storage modules. The balancing apparatus contains balancing lines, which connect individual energy storage modules of different series circuits to one another.