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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1997
Ariel Friedlander, Mequon, WI (US);
Bret Dwayne Worden, Union City, PA (US);
Myron Lee Smith, Fairview, PA (US);
Charles Earl Cooper, Erie, PA (US);
Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Erie, PA (US);
General Electric Company, Erie, PA (US);
Abstract
A shoot-through protection system for an electric power generating system including a synchronous generator, a bridge rectifier coupled to an output of the generator for converting alternating current (AC) from the generator to direct current (DC) at a rectifier output, and at least one inverter coupled to the rectifier output for converting the DC output to a controlled frequency AC output for application to a load. The generator has a separately excited field winding in which the magnitude of field excitation controls the voltage output of the generator. A microprocessor-based controller regulates generator field excitation in a manner to control the DC output of the rectifier. The generator is protected from a shoot-through in the inverter by detecting a sustained voltage drop in the rectifier DC output and reversing generator field excitation in response to such a voltage drop to rapidly drive generator output voltage to substantially zero volts.