Abstract:
A power system having a power factor correction circuit includes a power circuit. The power circuit includes first and second input capacitors, first and second coupled inductors, first and second switches, and an output circuit. The first and second input capacitors form a bank node. The first and second switches are connected to the first and second inductors and the bank node. Likewise, the first an second input capacitors are connected to the first and second inductors. The output circuit is operable to produce an output voltage. A control circuit is operable to monitor the output voltage and produce a switch signal. A drive circuit is coupled to the control circuit and the first and second switches and is operable to operate the first and second switches based on the switch signal.
Abstract:
A hybrid reactive power compensation device comprises a passive type reactive power compensator and an active type reactive power compensator serially connected thereto. The passive type reactive power compensator is an AC power capacitor adapted to provide the reactive power that reduces capacity of the active type reactive power compensator. The active type reactive power compensator is consisted of a power converter, a DC capacitor, a high-frequency ripple filter and a controller. The hybrid reactive power compensation device can supply a linearly adjustable reactive power within a predetermined range, and is adapted to supply a current with a nearly sinusoidal waveform. Therefore, it can avoid the destruction of AC power capacitor caused by the power resonance.
Abstract:
An automatic power factor correction system, for an electrical power installation drawing varying levels of reactive power, measures an electrical parameter of the power drawn by a load of a power installation which is capable of indicating a level of reactive power drawn by the load and couples a combination of capacitors to the power line to compensate for the level of reactive power indicated by the electrical parameter measured. In particular, the system measures the phase angle of the power drawn and calculates a combination of capacitors to connect to the power line to compensate for a measured level of reactive power.
Abstract:
In a DC/DC converter including a half-wave rectifying circuit of a diode and a capacitor for rectifying a voltage occurring on a secondary side of an insulated transformer, an ON period of one of switch elements has a fixed duration, permitting control of an ON period of the other switch element in order to achieve a constant DC output voltage. Since the switching frequency varies only during the ON period of the controlled switch element, an increase in switching frequency is restrained during a period in which the circuit carries light loads.
Abstract:
According to some embodiments, a feedback circuit receives a signal, the signal corresponding to a proximity of an existing operation point of a system to a resonant operation point of the system, and determines if a self-impedance of the system should be changed based on the signal.
Abstract:
A wide range of electric loads, has functional concepts hat lie outside the common standards (resistive, inductive, capacitive), as, for instance: gas-discharge lamps, or electronic loads; in fact, for their own functional features, these loads, introduce some harmonic distortions on the absorbed current, that cannot be solved with normal compensating systems (as, for example, phase advancers). A disadvantage which affects the feeders and their respective generators, therefore reducing: their efficiency, the power capacitance that can be supplied, and the qualitative level of energy distribution. Our system succeeds in evaluating and compensating (for the part of energy that its power section allows), the harmonic distortion on the network, therefore improving the various parameters which characterize it. Besides, since the system can operate both as load and as generator, it can be structured so that it uses the power sections, already useful to hold other applications; and that greatly reduces the price-of-the-device/corrected-power ratio.
Abstract:
An industrial load, preferably an electric arc furnace or a plant for rolling of metallic materials, is supplied from a three-phase electric ac network. A device for compensation of the reactive power consumption of the load comprises a first compensation device for controllable consumption of reactive power and a second compensation device for generation of reactive power, both connected to the electric power network in a parallel connection with the load. The first compensation device comprises a thyristor-controlled reactor for each of the phases of the ac network. Control equipment is supplied with measured values of sensed amplitude values for voltages and currents. The control equipment comprises means for forming a voltage mean value as the mean value of the sensed amplitude values of voltage, and means for forming, for each of the thyristor-controlled reactors, an amplitude deviation as a difference of the voltage mean value and the amplitude value associated with the thyristor-controlled reactor, and means for forming, for each of the thyristor-controlled reactors, a separate control order in dependence on the amplitude deviation for the respective thyristor-controlled reactor.
Abstract:
Power supply apparatus includes a power factor corrector (PFC) unit, which is adapted to receive an AC voltage from an AC source, and to smooth the AC voltage while adjusting a waveform of an AC input current from the AC source relative to the AC voltage so as to generate a PFC output voltage made up of a DC component with a residual AC ripple. A regulator is coupled to receive an indication of a ripple amplitude and a ripple phase of the residual AC ripple and to generate, responsive thereto, a correction voltage which is combined with the PFC voltage to generate a DC output voltage in which the AC ripple is substantially reduced relative to the PFC voltage.
Abstract:
Two types of solar cell modules having an equal output voltage and different sizes are used, and a plurality of solar cell modules of these two types are installed so that they are connected in parallel. The size of a solar cell module having two solar cell sub-modules is two times larger than the size of a solar cell module including one solar cell sub-module. By connecting two power generating regions of each of the solar cell sub-modules of the former solar cell module in parallel, connecting adjacent two solar cell sub-modules in series and connecting two power generating regions of the solar cell sub-module of the latter solar cell module in series, an equal output voltage is obtained from both of the solar cell modules.
Abstract:
Three-phase system comprising a three-phase power source and a three-pole switch, through which the phase terminals of the three-phase power source can be connected to a load network. A reference time detector is present for determining a reference point in time. A drive control circuit is provided for controlling the poles of the switch. The poles of the three-pole switch are switched at controlled times at different intervals with respect to the reference time. The time of the contact touch of the first pole is after 185null plus the maximum anticipated pre-ignition time increased by n times 180null after the zero crossing of the voltage between the first and second pole. The times of contact touch of the second pole and the third pole are respectively at n1 times the frequency period increased by 120null and increased by n times 180null and at n2 times the frequency period increased by 240null and increased by n times 180null after the time of contact touch of the first pole, where n is equal to zero or a whole number.