WO2012116742A1 - Protecting an operation control unit connected to an electric machine via a long cable - Google Patents
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02H—EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS
- H02H9/00—Emergency protective circuit arrangements for limiting excess current or voltage without disconnection
- H02H9/04—Emergency protective circuit arrangements for limiting excess current or voltage without disconnection responsive to excess voltage
- H02H9/041—Emergency protective circuit arrangements for limiting excess current or voltage without disconnection responsive to excess voltage using a short-circuiting device
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02H—EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS
- H02H3/00—Emergency protective circuit arrangements for automatic disconnection directly responsive to an undesired change from normal electric working condition with or without subsequent reconnection ; integrated protection
- H02H3/20—Emergency protective circuit arrangements for automatic disconnection directly responsive to an undesired change from normal electric working condition with or without subsequent reconnection ; integrated protection responsive to excess voltage
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02H—EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS
- H02H7/00—Emergency protective circuit arrangements specially adapted for specific types of electric machines or apparatus or for sectionalised protection of cable or line systems, and effecting automatic switching in the event of an undesired change from normal working conditions
- H02H7/08—Emergency protective circuit arrangements specially adapted for specific types of electric machines or apparatus or for sectionalised protection of cable or line systems, and effecting automatic switching in the event of an undesired change from normal working conditions for dynamo-electric motors
- H02H7/0833—Emergency protective circuit arrangements specially adapted for specific types of electric machines or apparatus or for sectionalised protection of cable or line systems, and effecting automatic switching in the event of an undesired change from normal working conditions for dynamo-electric motors for electric motors with control arrangements
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- the present invention generally relates to the
- the present invention relates to a system for operating an electric machine and a method for protecting an operation control unit in such a system.
- the voltage at the consumer end will be heavily influenced by the electrical load drawn by the consumer.
- An example of such a long cable is a cable some kilometers in length connecting a power supply
- One known protective circuit comprises the diode bridge.
- US 7,227, 325 does for instance describe a protective circuit with a diode bridge and thyristor as switch used for protecting a frequency converter.
- the diode bridge is placed close to a motor and here short circuits the connection between the frequency converter and the motor in response to the detection of a fault in the frequency converter.
- US 7,164,562 describes a protection configuration provided for short-circuiting a converter in case of network faults. The protection circuit is here
- the present invention is directed towards protecting an operation control unit in a system for operating an electric machine from overvoltages caused by self- excitation .
- One object of the present invention is to provide a system for operating an electric machine, which has such overvoltage protection capability.
- This object is according to a first aspect of the present invention achieved through a system for operating an electric machine comprising:
- an alternating current cable connecting the machine with the operation control unit, and an electric short-circuiting arrangement connected to terminals of the operation control unit facing the cable, said arrangement being configured to short circuit said terminals based on a detected overvoltage.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for protecting an operation control unit in such a system.
- This object is according to a second aspect of the present invention achieved through a method for
- the present invention has a number of advantages.
- the short-circuiting arrangement is very fast which is advantageous in relation to long step-out systems.
- the design is also very reliable since the arrangement is an autonomous arrangement.
- the arrangement is connected to the output of the operation control unit the voltage and current being fed back to the operation control unit is limited, which limits the stress on components inside it .
- fig. 1 schematically shows an operations control unit for an electric machine being connected to the electric machine via a long AC cable as well as to an AC grid
- fig. 2 schematically shows a land installation being connected to a subsea installation
- fig. 3 schematically shows an electric short-circuiting arrangement being provided in the land installation
- fig. 4 schematically shows a flow chart including a number of method steps in a method for operating the electric short-circuiting arrangement.
- Figure 1 shows a schematic diagram of the principal electrical components involved in practicing the invention. It shows, from left to right, an AC power network or grid 10 operating as a power supply, a first transformer 18 acting as an input transformer, a variable frequency power converter/inverter or
- the converter 20 and a second transformer 24, which second transformer is a step-up transformer.
- the converter 20 is here connected to the second transformer 24 via a local AC bus 22 and to this bus there is connected an electric short-circuiting arrangement 26.
- the AC bus 22 is here typically a three-phase bus and thus comprises at least three conductors.
- the first transformer 18, the converter 20, the AC bus 22, the second transformer 24 and the electric short-circuiting arrangement 26 are here provided in a land installation 12. This means that they are with advantage provided together in the same location.
- the second transformer 24 is connected to a long power supply line or alternating (AC) current cable 16, which cable 16 is as an example operated at a high voltage of 40 kV or more.
- the long AC cable 16 is further
- the third transformer 28 is connected to a third transformer 28, in this case a step down transformer, and the third transformer 28 is thereafter connected to an electric machine 30 or an electrical consuming load running in this example in the range 4 - 6 kV.
- the machine is furthermore a motor.
- the third transformer 28 and electric machine 30 are here provided in a subsea installation 14. They are thus also provided together in the same location. The installations are here indicated through dashed boxes.
- the converter 20, transformers 18, 24, 28, cable 16 and electric short-circuiting arrangement 26 together make up a system for operating the electric machine.
- machine 30 is also considered to be a part of this system.
- Power is supplied from the grid 10 to a power converter/ inverter 20 via the first transformer 18.
- the converter/inverter 20 in turn provides AC power that is stepped up in the second transformer 24 at the converter end, applied at high voltage over the long line 16, stepped down in the third transformer 28 at the machine end, and supplied to the machine 30.
- the converter/inverter 20 may also be described as a variable speed drive. It is furthermore in fact an operation control unit because it is used for
- Figure 2 shows a simple sketch of the land installation 12 provided on land 32 connected to a first end of the AC cable 16, where a second end of the cable 16 is connected to the machine many kilometers out to sea.
- the sea installation 14 where the
- Fig. 3 schematically shows the electric short- circuiting arrangement 26 according to a first
- each bridge leg is made up of a diode bridge BR having a number of parallel bridge legs.
- a first leg comprising a first and a second diode Dl and D2
- a second leg comprising a third and a fourth diode D3 and D4
- a third leg comprising a fifth and a sixth diode D5 and D6, where the diodes of the phase legs all have the same orientation.
- the midpoint of each bridge leg is connected to a corresponding phase conductor of the AC bus 22.
- the two ends of each leg are furthermore interconnected via a switch SW that is opened or closed based on a control signal CTRL.
- the switch is a thyristor with a gate for being controlled. It can therefore be seen that this switch SW is closed based on a voltage on the gate. It can also be seen that the switch SW is connected for short-circuiting the diode bridge.
- the control signal CTRL is generated by a short-circuiting control unit 36.
- the electric short-circuiting arrangement 26 thus includes a short-circuiting control unit 36 for
- control signal CTRL is generated based on the voltage of the AC bus 22, which voltage in turn influences a DC voltage of the diode bridge.
- the diode bridge provides this DC voltage across the legs.
- the short-circuiting control unit 36 has two input terminals connected to the two ends of the bride legs, one connected to one side of the bridge legs and the other connected to the opposite side.
- the short- circuiting control unit 36 also has a control signal output, which provides the control signal CTRL that actuates the switch SW and which control signal output is therefore connected to the gate of the thyristor.
- the control signal CTRL is provided based on the detected DC voltage across the diode bridge legs.
- the diode bridge legs can then be short circuited through closing the electronic switch SW, which will short- circuit the phase conductors of the AC bus 22. There are no moving mechanical parts. In the figure it can furthermore be seen that the conductors of the AC bus 22 are connected to
- connection terminals 38, 40 and 42 of the converter 20 are therefore AC terminals facing the AC cable 16.
- embodiment is based on a diode bridge, often denoted crowbar, enables a fast breaking.
- the short-circuiting control unit 36 of the electric short-circuiting arrangement 26 continuously monitors the DC voltage across the bridge legs of the diode bridge or crowbar. This DC voltage corresponds to the peak AC voltage and thereby to the voltage on the cable. If the short-circuiting control unit 36 detects that there is an overvoltage on the AC bus 22 and thereby an overvoltage at the connection terminals 38, 40, 42 of the converter 20, where the overvoltage is caused by self-excitation, step 44, the short- circuiting control unit 36 then controls the crowbar to short circuit the AC bus and thereby to
- connection terminals 38, 40 and 42 short-circuit the connection terminals 38, 40 and 42 based on the detected overvoltage, step 46.
- the detection may here be performed through comparing the DC voltage across the bridge legs with an
- the short-circuiting control unit 36 determines that there is self-excitation in the system and the converter 20 has to be protected.
- the short- circuiting is here done through closing the switch SW, which is here done through turning on the thyristor, which effectively short-circuits the individual conductors of the AC bus 22.
- the electric short-circuiting arrangement short-circuits these terminals based on a detected overvoltage. It can more particularly be seen that the short-circuiting control unit 36 is configured to close the switch SW based on the voltage at these terminals since the measured DC voltage is the rectified AC voltage.
- the crowbar is ideal to prevent overvoltage to occur in a power system.
- the crowbar may be designed as a fully autonomous unit that short circuits the phases of the AC voltage if a threshold voltage is reached.
- BOD break over diodes
- a break over diode will then be set to start to conduct when the DC voltage, which is also the voltage across the
- the crowbar can in this way be self-triggering based on break over diodes (BOD) . It does thus not require a control system, but is
- the quick reaction time will limit the overvoltage to a minimum.
- the crowbar will prevent failure of electrical components connected to the induction motor, such as components in the converter.
- the short-circuiting control unit 36 may as an
- the voltage dividing arrangement divides the DC voltage to a suitable level for comparing with a threshold level in the comparator, and where the comparator provides the control signal CTRL so that the crowbar is self- triggered if the DC voltage reaches a certain level.
- the converter may be equipped with a protection function of it's own that may perform a protective measure.
- the crowbar may according to this variation perform short-circuiting of the AC voltage in case this ordinary protection
- the converter provides a protection activation signals to the electric short-circuiting arrangement when the converter is about to perform an activity.
- the short-circuiting control unit of the electric short- circuiting arrangement may then perform short- circuiting if it notices that the converter fails to actually perform this activity.
- the short-circuiting control unit includes a further terminal receiving the protection activation signal. This may in turn be connected to an AND circuit via a delay unit. The AND circuit would then also receive a scaled down version of the DC voltage. Then the AND circuit will provide a control signal closing the switch if a DC voltage is present across the bridge legs at the same time as a delayed protection activation signal is present, thereby activating the crowbar. In this latter situation the crowbar thus serves as back-up over protection or a secondary over voltage protection for the frequency converter .
- the invention has a number of advantages.
- the short- circuiting arrangement is very fast which is
- step-up and step-down transformers are for instance associated with
- the operating control unit or drive unit for the electric machine was above described as a frequency converter. However, it should be realized that other types of units cane be used instead, such as an inverter connected to DC system instead of to the AC grid.
- the electric machine may furthermore be a generator instead of a motor.
- the switch was a thyristor. It should be realized that the switch can be another type of semiconductor device, such as an IGBT, IGCT or a triac.
- the rectifying bridge may also be made up of other elements than diodes.
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