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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Rixin Lai, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Di Zhang, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Dong Dong, Schenectady, NY (US);
Konrad Roman Weeber, Rexford, NY (US);
Ravisekhar Nadimpalli Raju, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Steven Michael Mankevich, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A power system for a marine ship includes a plurality of protection zones, wherein at least two protection zones are coupled to each other via at least one bus-tie converter. Each of the protection zones includes a plurality of direct current (DC) buses; wherein DC buses which do not have same DC voltage are coupled to each other via at least one DC to DC converter. Furthermore, at least one energy source is coupled to at least one DC bus via a power electronic converter.