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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2024
Emp Shield Inc., Burlington, KS (US);
Plamen Doynov, Kansas City, MO (US);
EMP Shield Inc., Burlington, KS (US);
Abstract
A system suppresses extreme voltage surges induced on electric power lines due to transient electromagnetic energy disturbance from detonation of a nuclear weapon at high altitude generating an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) comprising E, E, and Epulses, geomagnetic disturbance, and intentional electromagnetic interference. Low voltage (LV) surge protection (SP) assemblies mounted at medium voltage (MV) inputs and LV outputs of the stacked converter cells of a solid-state transformer (SST) form SP of MV and LV electrical power grids interfaced by the SST. The SP assemblies utilize LV components to provide MV grid protection, shunting overcurrent to ground without interfering with the SST MV/LV grid segments isolation. The SP components are selected and coordinated to achieve predefined response at protection threshold voltage levels with current capacity mitigating complex components of HEMP. The hybrid SP communicates with SST control to react to a prolonged overvoltage/overcurrent fault condition.