JP2006271073A - Uninterruptibe power supply device and input current control method therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an uninterruptibe power supply device and an input current control method therefor, capable of effectively eliminating the distortions of an input current caused by saturation of an input isolation transformer. <P>SOLUTION: This uninterruptibe power supply device includes: a converter 14 fed from an AC input power supply 1 through the isolation transformer 11; a DC filter for smoothing the DC output; and an inverter 17 which is fed to a load 3 by converting the output to AC. A first controller 36 regulates deviation between a DC voltage command and an input voltage of the inverter to output a DC current reference, generates a reference sine-wave synchronized with a phase and a frequency of the AC input power supply, adds a distorted current compensation reference to the reference sinwave to take it as the phase reference and multiplies the phase reference by the DC current reference to take it as an AC current reference. Moreover, a second controller 40 regulates the deviation between the AC current reference and the input current of the inverter to output an AC voltage reference, and supplies a gate pulse to a switching device for the converter, thus performing PWM control. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an uninterruptible power supply apparatus and an input current control method thereof, and more particularly to an uninterruptible power supply apparatus and an input current control method thereof that prevent distortion current caused by saturation of an input isolation transformer from flowing into an AC input power supply.

  The uninterruptible power supply converts commercial AC power into DC with a converter through an input AC filter, smoothes this DC with a smoothing capacitor, converts it into AC again with an inverter, and converts this AC output through an output filter. When the commercial AC power supply fails, the power supply to the load is continued by the storage battery connected to the DC circuit.

  The input AC filter operates to prevent harmonics from flowing into the converter and to prevent harmonics from flowing out of the converter to the commercial AC power supply, but is effective for relatively low-order harmonics. thin.

On the other hand, it is conceivable to use a converter that is self-excited to prevent harmonics from flowing into the converter by this switching. Proposals have been made to operate this self-excited converter as an active power filter to reduce harmonics and improve the power factor of the entire system (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
JP-A-6-86557 (page 4-5, FIG. 1)

  The technique disclosed in Patent Document 1 is effective in reducing harmonics and improving the power factor as a system. However, considering a specific countermeasure such as compensation of harmonics caused by saturation of the input isolation transformer, for example, the method shown in Patent Document 1 is feedback control, and therefore control delay may be a problem. If stable control is performed when the harmonic disturbance is large, the amount of compensation is limited. Here, the saturation of the input isolation transformer does not occur if the capacity of the isolation transformer is selected with a margin. However, there are many cases where the capacity of the isolation transformer does not have a margin for reasons such as economy. It is.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an uninterruptible power supply apparatus and an input current control method thereof that effectively eliminate distortion of the input current of the uninterruptible power supply apparatus caused by saturation of an input isolation transformer. The purpose is to provide.

In order to achieve the above object, an uninterruptible power supply according to the first aspect of the present invention is connected in parallel to a converter that is fed from an AC input power supply through an insulation transformer and an AC input filter, and a DC output of the converter. A storage battery that discharges during a power failure of the AC input power supply, a DC filter that smoothes the DC output of the converter, an inverter that converts the output of the DC filter into AC, and supplies power to the load via the output filter, and A converter control unit that supplies a gate pulse to the switching element of the converter, the converter control unit,
A first controller that outputs a DC current reference by adjusting a deviation between a DC voltage command and the input voltage of the inverter, and detects a phase and a frequency of the AC input power source, and generates a reference sine wave that is synchronized therewith. A distortion current compensation means for generating a distortion current compensation reference according to the phase and frequency of the power supply, and adding the distortion current compensation reference to the reference sine wave to output a phase reference. Means for multiplying the direct current reference to output an alternating current reference; a second controller for adjusting the deviation of the input current of the alternating current reference and the inverter to output an alternating voltage reference; and the second controller PWM control means for supplying a gate pulse to the switching element of the converter according to the output of the controller.

  The input current control method for the uninterruptible power supply according to the second aspect of the present invention includes a converter fed from an AC input power source through an isolation transformer and an AC input filter, and connected in parallel to the DC output of the converter. A storage battery that discharges during a power failure of the AC input power supply, a DC filter that smoothes the DC output of the converter, and an inverter that converts the output of the DC filter into AC and supplies power to the load via the output filter. In the uninterruptible power supply, the first controller adjusts the deviation between the DC voltage command and the input voltage of the inverter, outputs a DC current reference, detects the phase and frequency of the AC input power, A reference sine wave synchronized with the reference current sine wave and a distortion current compensation reference generated according to the phase and frequency of the power supply are added to the reference sine wave to obtain a phase reference. The phase reference is multiplied by the DC current reference to obtain an AC current reference, and a second controller adjusts a deviation between the AC current reference and the input current of the inverter to output an AC voltage reference. According to the output of the controller, PWM control is performed by supplying a gate pulse to the switching element of the converter.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an uninterruptible power supply apparatus and an input current control method thereof that can effectively eliminate distortion of the input current of the uninterruptible power supply apparatus caused by saturation of the input isolation transformer. Become.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  Hereinafter, an uninterruptible power supply according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention and an input current control method thereof will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the uninterruptible power supply according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

  Upon receiving the alternating current from the alternating current input power source 1, the uninterruptible power supply 2 supplies high-quality alternating current to the load 3. The main circuit of the uninterruptible power supply 2 is configured as follows.

  The AC input is supplied to the input isolation transformer 12 via the AC input switch 11. The secondary output of the insulating transformer 12 is supplied to the converter 14 via the AC input filter 13. The converter 14 is a self-excited converter formed by bridge-connecting self-extinguishing elements, and its DC output is smoothed by the smoothing capacitor 15 of the DC filter unit. In addition, this DC filter part may be set as the structure provided with the series reactor.

  The DC output unit is provided with a storage battery 16 through a switch in parallel with the smoothing capacitor 15, and supplies power to the load 3 from the AC input power supply 1 when a power failure occurs. The direct current smoothed by the smoothing capacitor 15 is applied to the inverter 17, converted into alternating current again by the inverter 17, the harmonic component is removed by the output filter 18, and power is supplied to the load 3. The inverter 17 is a self-excited inverter having a configuration similar to that of the converter 14 and operates according to a command from an inverter control unit (not shown).

  The converter 14 operates according to a command from the converter control unit 19. The converter control unit 19 includes an input current signal of the current detector 20 provided on the input side of the converter 14, a voltage signal of the voltage detector 21 provided on the secondary side of the insulating transformer 12, and the smoothing capacitor 15. A DC voltage signal of a DC voltage detector 22 provided at both ends is given. Hereinafter, the internal configuration of the converter control unit 19 will be described.

  The voltage signal of the voltage detector 21 is input to a phase detector 31 which is stabilized by a PLL (phase locked loop) circuit, and a sine wave signal is generated by a sine wave generator 32 according to the phase and frequency detected by the phase detector 31. Is generated. Similarly, in response to the phase and frequency detected by the phase detector 31, the distorted current compensator 33 outputs a distorted current compensation signal, and the adder 34 combines the distorted current compensation signal and the sine wave signal described above. Get the phase reference.

  On the other hand, the DC voltage signal of the DC voltage detector 22 is compared with the DC voltage command 35, and the deviation is subjected to PID control processing by the controller 37 to obtain the DC current reference. An AC input AC current reference is obtained by multiplying the DC current reference by a multiplier 38 by the phase reference that is the output of the adder 34 described above. The AC current reference and the input current signal of the current detector 20 are compared by the comparator 39, the deviation is PID controlled by the controller 40, and the voltage reference which is the output of the controller 40 is used as the carrier of the carrier generator 41. Based on the signal, modulation is performed by the PWM controller 42, and the self-extinguishing element of the converter 14 is on / off controlled by this output.

  The operation and effect of the first embodiment in the configuration described above will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the compensation operation when the input isolation transformer is saturated.

  In the uninterruptible power supply 2 in which the insulation transformer 12 is inserted between the AC input switch 11 and the AC input filter 13, when the magnetic flux of the insulation transformer 12 is saturated, a saturation current is transferred from the AC input power supply 1 to the transformer 12. The input current of the uninterruptible power supply is distorted. As shown in FIG. 2A, the distortion (output current component due to magnetic saturation) is a third-order harmonic component that is delayed by 90 degrees with respect to the power supply voltage phase and flows only in the portion where the power supply voltage is zero-crossed. In other words, the waveform has a peak at a point where the power supply voltage zero-crosses from positive to negative, and among the waveforms having a frequency three times the power supply frequency, the power supply voltage 180 degrees (third order) from zero to negative or from negative to positive. This is the waveform that takes this value for harmonics (referenced) and zero for others.

  Accordingly, in order to compensate for this distortion, if a compensation current as shown in FIG. 2B having a polarity opposite to that of the distortion is generated by the distortion current compensator 33, the distortion is canceled out. The converter 14 operates and the distortion does not flow into the converter 14.

  As described above, according to the present invention, the output of the distortion current compensator 33 is added to the phase reference of the input current even if the distortion is superimposed on the input current of the converter 14 due to saturation of the isolation transformer 12 or the like. Therefore, distortion can be removed.

  Note that the distortion shown in FIG. 2A (the output current component due to magnetic saturation) may vary depending on the degree of saturation and circuit conditions, so that the distortion current compensator 33 is not operating. It is also possible to actually measure the distortion corresponding to 2 (a) and determine the reference of the compensation current generated by the distortion current compensator 33 according to the actual measurement result.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the uninterruptible power supply according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention. About each part of this Example 2, the same part as the block block diagram of the uninterruptible power supply concerning Example 1 of Drawing 1 is shown with the same numerals, and the explanation is omitted. The second embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that a trimmer potentiometer 43 is provided at the output of the distortion current compensator 33 and the output of the trimmer potentiometer 43 is used as a phase reference for compensation.

  As described above, the saturation current when the magnetic flux of the insulating transformer 12 is saturated varies depending on the degree of saturation and circuit conditions. Therefore, by making it possible to adjust the output of the distortion current compensator 33 with the trimmer potentiometer 43 as appropriate, it is possible to generate a phase reference for the input current that cancels variously changing distortion currents.

  Even if the insulating transformer 12 is replaced with another insulating transformer, the input current distortion can be appropriately suppressed by the same operation as described above by readjusting the trimmer potentiometer 43.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an uninterruptible power supply according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention. About each part of this Example 3, the same part as the block block diagram of the uninterruptible power supply concerning Example 1 of Drawing 1 is shown with the same numerals, and the explanation is omitted. The third embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that a phase shifter 44 is provided at the input of the distortion current compensator 33 and the power supply voltage phase obtained by the phase detector 31 is shifted by a predetermined amount, and then the distortion current compensator. This is the point that 33 compensation waveforms are generated.

  In the second embodiment, it has been described that the amplitude of the compensation amount changes variously, but actually, the phase of the compensation amount also changes variously. Therefore, by making it possible to appropriately adjust the power supply phase that is input to the distortion current compensator 33 by the phase shifter 44, it is possible to generate a phase reference for the input current that cancels variously changing distortion currents. .

  Further, as in the case of the second embodiment, even if the insulating transformer 12 is replaced with another insulating transformer, it is possible to appropriately suppress distortion of the input current by readjusting the phase difference of the phase shifter 44. Become.

The block block diagram of the uninterruptible power supply which concerns on Example 1 of this invention. Explanatory drawing of compensation operation | movement at the time of insulation transformer saturation. The block block diagram of the uninterruptible power supply which concerns on Example 2 of this invention. The block block diagram of the uninterruptible power supply which concerns on Example 3 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 AC Input Power Supply 2 Uninterruptible Power Supply 3 Load 11 AC Input Switch 12 Isolation Transformer 13 AC Input Filter 14 Converter 15 Smoothing Capacitor 16 Storage Battery 17 Inverter 18 Output Filter 19 Converter Control Unit 20 Current Detector 21 Voltage Detector 22 DC Voltage Detection 31 Phase detector 32 Sine wave generator 33 Distortion current compensator 34 Adder 35 DC voltage command 36 Comparator 37 Controller 38 Multiplier 39 Comparator 40 Controller 41 Carrier generator 42 PWM controller 43 Trimmer potentiometer 44 Phase Shift device

Claims (5)

A converter that is fed from an AC input power source through an isolation transformer and an AC input filter;
A storage battery connected in parallel to the DC output of this converter, and discharged during a power failure of the AC input power supply,
A DC filter for smoothing the DC output of the converter;
An inverter that converts the output of the DC filter into AC and supplies power to the load via the output filter;
A converter control unit for supplying a gate pulse to the switching element of the converter;
The converter controller is
A first controller for adjusting a deviation between a DC voltage command and an input voltage of the inverter to output a DC current reference;
Means for detecting the phase and frequency of the AC input power supply and generating a reference sine wave synchronized therewith;
Distortion current compensation means for generating a distortion current compensation reference according to the phase and frequency of the power supply;
Means for adding the distortion current compensation reference to the reference sine wave to output a phase reference, and multiplying the phase reference by the direct current reference to output an alternating current reference;
A second controller that adjusts a deviation between the alternating current reference and the input current of the inverter to output an alternating voltage reference;
An uninterruptible power supply comprising: PWM control means for supplying a gate pulse to the switching element of the converter according to the output of the second controller.   The uninterruptible power supply according to claim 1, wherein the output current of the distortion current compensating means can be adjusted by a trimmer potentiometer.   The uninterruptible power supply according to claim 1, wherein the phase of the power source that is a phase reference input of the distortion current compensation unit can be adjusted by a phase shift unit. The distortion current compensation standard is:
The uninterruptible power supply according to claim 1, wherein a third-order harmonic component is generated only in a portion that is delayed by 90 degrees with respect to the phase of the power supply and in which a power supply voltage is zero-crossed. A converter that is fed from an AC input power source through an isolation transformer and an AC input filter;
A storage battery connected in parallel to the DC output of this converter and discharging when the AC input power fails; and
A DC filter for smoothing the DC output of the converter;
In the uninterruptible power supply comprising an inverter that converts the output of this DC filter into AC and supplies power to the load through the output filter,
The first controller adjusts the deviation between the DC voltage command and the input voltage of the inverter to output a DC current reference,
Detecting the phase and frequency of the AC input power supply, generating a reference sine wave synchronized with this,
Add a distortion current compensation reference generated according to the phase and frequency of the power source to this reference sine wave to obtain a phase reference,
This phase reference is multiplied by the DC current reference to make an AC current reference,
A second controller adjusts a deviation between the AC current reference and the input current of the inverter, and outputs an AC voltage reference.
An input current control method for an uninterruptible power supply, wherein a gate pulse is supplied to the switching element of the converter in accordance with the output of the second controller to perform PWM control.

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