Patents Assigned to Electric Power Research
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Publication number: 20240195177Abstract: A method and a device for controlling grid configuration of a flexible direct current electric power transmission system, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The active power reference value is modified based on the frequency deviation of the alternating current grid. The reactive power reference value is modified based on the voltage deviation of the alternating current grid. The outputted active power and the outputted reactive power are controlled based on the active power reference value and the reactive power reference value, respectively. The grid voltage is further configured and controlled through power control, so that the system is capable of self-synchronization, frequency regulation and voltage regulation. In addition, the virtual synchronous machine technology is introduced into control of the reactive power, so that the system can provide inertia support for the grid voltage amplitude.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2021Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE. CHINA SOUTHERN POWERNGRIDInventors: Dongxiao CAI, Weihuang HUANG, Yijing CHEN, Yan LI, Xiaobin ZHAO, Shukai XU
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Patent number: 12009858Abstract: A multi-sensor data fusion-based self-powered online monitoring system for a transmission line includes a plurality of detection nodes, an optical communication receiving and demodulation module, and a data processing module. The detection nodes each include a vibration energy harvesting module, a sensing module, and an optical communication modulation and transmitting module. The detection node uses a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) to convert and harvest energy, uses the sensing module to acquire a plurality of types of sensing data, and uses the optical communication modulation and transmitting module to modulate and transmit the sensing data. The optical communication receiving and demodulation module correspondingly receives and demodulates the sensing data, and transmits the sensing data to the data processing module for processing.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignees: State Grid Chongqing Electric Power Co. Electric Power Research Institute, State Grid Corporation of ChinaInventors: Yongfu Li, Xiping Jiang, Xingzhe Hou, Qian Wang, Yingkai Long, Qiang Yao, Siquan Li, Xiaoxiao Luo, Yuxiang Liao, Haibing Zhang, Jiankang Bao, Haitao Wu
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Publication number: 20240168077Abstract: A transformer bushing partial discharge monitoring chip device and method are provided. An acquisition unit comprises three sensor modules installed at end screens of three-phase bushings of a transformer respectively for acquiring partial discharge signals and power frequency current signals from the transformer bushing end screens; each of the sensor modules is connected to an SIP digitization unit through a wire; the SIP digitization unit is fixedly installed beneath a base of the acquisition unit for digitizing the partial discharge signals and the power frequency current signals; an output end of the SIP digitization unit is connected to an input end of a background processing terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: STATE GRID ZHEJIANG ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY LIMITED ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Xiaoxin CHEN, Xianjun SHAO, Ping QIAN, Chen LI, Yiming ZHENG, Jiangyang ZHAN, Wenlin HE, Haibao MU, Huibin TAO, Xiang SUN, Haojun LIU
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Patent number: 11990756Abstract: A multi-timescale voltage regulation method based on source-grid-load-storage multi -terminal collaboration of a power distribution network is disclosed, which comprises: establishing, based on a Petri network, a multi-mode switching control model based on voltage security event trigger to realize effective control of a global voltage; establishing multi-objective optimization taking into account a source-storage-load regulation cost and a network transmission loss to realize collaborative and dynamic control of controllable resources of a source terminal, a load terminal and a storage terminal in each operating mode; and establishing a source-storage-load multi-terminal collaboration-based distributed voltage control model based on voltage security event trigger over a short timescale by taking into account the problems of voltage magnitude being out of limit and voltage leap, and solving online an optimal control sequence of the source terminal, the load terminal and the storage terminal in a receding horizType: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignees: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, STATE GRID ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO. LTDInventors: Dong Yue, Chunxia Dou, Zhijun Zhang, Xiaohua Ding, Jianbo Luo, Yanman Li, Kun Huang, Tao Han
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Publication number: 20240162714Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a device for suppressing a first HVDC commutation failure under an AC system fault are provided. The method includes: obtaining a three-phase voltage of a converter bus, and calculating a zero-sequence component amplitude and an ?? component amplitude; calculating a first trigger-angle command for a single-phase fault and a second trigger-angle command for a three-phase fault selecting a smaller one of the first trigger angle command and the second trigger angle command as a trigger-angle command for an extinction-angle controller; and adjusting a trigger angle of the HVDC transmission system by using the trigger-angle command as an upper limit value for an output of the extinction-angle controller of the HVDC transmission system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicants: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE. CHINA SOUTHERN POWER GRID, CHINA SOUTHERN POWER GRIDInventors: Chuang FU, Ruina ZHENG, Juanjuan WANG, Zhaoxin WEN, Huan LI, Wei WEI
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Patent number: 11973340Abstract: A line current iM(k0) of an M side of a first direct-current transmission line is collected at a moment k0. A line current iM(k0?ts) thereof is collected at k0?ts. At a moment k0, a differential value diM(k0) of a current of the side of the first direct-current transmission line is calculated according to the line current iM(k0) and the line current iM(k0?ts). It is determined whether the differential value diM(k0) of the current meets a protection enabling criteria. If so, direct-current protection for the M side of the first direct-current transmission line is enabled. A line current iM(j) of the M side of the first direct-current transmission line is collected at a moment j. A line current iM(j?ts) thereof is collected at a moment j?ts. A differential value diM(j) of the current of the M side of the first direct-current transmission line at the moment j is calculated according to the line current iM(j) and the line current iM(j?ts).Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINAInventors: Zexin Zhou, Huanzhang Liu, Pengfei Lv, Hong Cao, Xingguo Wang, Siye Ruan, Dingxiang Du, Yong Li, Guosheng Yang, Mingliang Jin
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Patent number: 11967823Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for monitoring a short-term voltage stability of a power system. The method includes: obtaining a topology and time series of a current power system; inputting the topology and the time series of the current power system into a trained spatial-temporal graph network model, the trained spatial-temporal graph network model being obtained by classification learning on a spatial-temporal graph network model based on a simulation sample dataset; outputting a status of the short-term voltage stability of the power system; and sending an alarm signal in response to outputting an unstable status of the short-term voltage stability of the power system.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STATE GRID LIAONING POWER CO., LTD., STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINAInventors: Chao Lu, Yonghong Luo, Xiaohua Zhang, Changyou Feng, Fangwei Duan, Yingxuan Yang, Ruitong Liu, Yue Han
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Patent number: 11967442Abstract: A skin layer of a superconducting tape has a woven mesh structure and is disposed on a surface of a superconducting tape. The skin layer of a superconducting tape solves the problem where a vapor layer generated when a superconductor is in a normal resistive state greatly reduces the efficiency of a heat exchange between the superconductor and liquid nitrogen. Further provided are the superconducting tape and a superconducting coil.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: GUANGDONG POWER GRID CO., LTD., ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GUANGDONG POWER GRID CO., LTDInventors: Xinhui Duan, Lianhong Zhong, Yongfa Zhao, Meng Song, Bing Zhao, Xiaoqing Xiao, Chao Sheng, Jian Zhang, Li Li, Yunsong Luo
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Publication number: 20240125094Abstract: The present invention is directed to a metering valve for controlling the amount of a fluid passed through the valve and a servo-valve for controlling the metering valve, wherein the servo-valve is decoupled from the metering valve to thermally distance or thermally isolate the servo-valve from any heat from the fluid passing through the metering valve. The metering valve and servo-valve may be used to attemperate a steam stream in a power plant attemperation system, such as a system for attemperating a superheated steam gas stream from a power plant being used for a heat-recovery steam generator. An integrated metering valve and discharge valve for discharging fluid during periods of non-use is also provide. Changeable throttle plates are also provided that control the flow of the fluid through the control chamber of the metering valve and the discharge valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Hermann Josef Laumen, Mohamed Douch, Stanley Timothy Rosinski, Bill Gene Carson
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Patent number: 11953379Abstract: A live detection system, a thermal infrared (IR) imager and a method for power grid equipment are provided. The system includes an environmental parameter module for acquiring environmental temperature, humidity and wind speed data; a ranging module for measuring a linear distance to the power grid equipment; an equipment type recognition module for acquiring an image of the power grid equipment, and recognizing a type of the power grid equipment; an equipment material determination module for determining a material type of the power grid equipment; an emissivity setting module for setting an emissivity; an temperature measurement module for obtaining a temperature of the power grid equipment by focusing on positions of the power grid equipment which need temperature measurement; and a report generation module for selecting a corresponding diagnostic model, displaying a temperature measurement position and a temperature value, drawing a conclusion, and generating a report.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: State Grid Shandong Electric Power Research Institute, State Grid Corporation of ChinaInventors: Rong Liu, Hui Liu, Qinghe Shen, Jinxia Yao, Haiyan Yuan, Bo Yang, Xiaobin Sun, Chao Gu, Ran Jia, Yang Zhang, Chao Zhou, Chuanbin Liu
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Patent number: 11954210Abstract: A hierarchical health index evaluation method for an intelligent substation includes: obtaining a basic health index of a device based on static information and dynamic information of the device; obtaining a device correlation based on a communication connection relationship between the device and another device, and correcting the basic health index of the device based on the device correlation to obtain a health index of the device; obtaining a layer-based health index of a layer based on a device health index and a device importance weight of the layer; obtaining a whole-station health index of an intelligent substation based on a layer-based health index of each layer and a sum of device importance weights of each layer; and regulating the intelligent substation based on a health index of each device in the intelligent substation, the layer-based health index of each layer, and the whole-station health index.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: State Grid Shandong Electric Power Research Institute, State Grid Corporation of ChinaInventors: Wenting Wang, Zheng Xu, Xin Liu, Yujie Geng, Qigui Nie, Lin Lin, Jing Liu, Guodong Lv, Yang Zhao, Tiancheng Ren, Xiaohong Zhao
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Publication number: 20240106235Abstract: A high anti-interference microsystem based on System In Package (SIP) for a power grid is provided. The high anti-interference microsystem comprises a ceramic cavity, a ceramic substrate, a magnetic cover plate, a digital signal processing circuit, an analog signal conditioning circuit and a shield, wherein the ceramic cavity supports the ceramic substrate, the magnetic cover plate is in sealed contact with the ceramic cavity, and the ceramic substrate is arranged in a cavity formed by the ceramic cavity and the magnetic cover plate; a sealed shell of the microsystem based on SIP is composed of the magnetic cover plate and the ceramic cavity; the digital signal processing circuit and the analog signal conditioning circuit are arranged on the ceramic substrate and respectively process received signals to be processed; the shield covers an outer side of the sealed shell and is used for shielding external magnetic field interference.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co., LTDInventors: Xianjun SHAO, Xiaoxin CHEN, Yiming ZHENG, Chen LI, Jianjun WANG, Ping QIAN, Hua XU, Shaoan WANG, Shaohe WANG, Haibao MU, Huibin TAO, Lin ZHAO, Wenzhe ZHENG, Dun QIAN
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Patent number: 11940375Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of fiber-optic gas sensing and laser photoacoustic spectroscopy, and reliability of a gas detection system is improved by actively selecting a working frequency of low noise interference combined with an optical fiber photoacoustic sensing probe capable of isolating high-frequency noise. A gas enters a photoacoustic microcavity through gaps on a sound-sensitive diaphragm after diffusing into a miniature air chamber through a plurality of micropores. Photoacoustic excitation light is incident into the photoacoustic microcavity through a fiber-optic collimator and then excited to generate a photoacoustic pressure wave to cause the sound-sensitive diaphragm to vibrate periodically. An end face of a single-mode optical fiber and the sound-sensitive diaphragm constitutes a fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometer. The interferometer measures a deflection of the diaphragm and inverts a concentration of the to-be-measured gas.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: STATE GRID ANHUI ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Dalian University of TechnologyInventors: Fengxiang Ma, Ke Chen, Yue Zhao, Feng Zhu, Min Guo, Yu Tian, Xiaofang Yuan, Yabin Ma, Chen Hang
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Patent number: 11942244Abstract: A surge protection apparatus is disclosed. The surge protection apparatus includes a housing; electronics contained in the housing; and a plurality of metal tabs electrically connected to the electronics, the metal tabs being configured to connect to a terminal block of a relay panel in a substation, the metal tabs electrically connecting the terminal block to the electronics to provide EMP surge protection to the relay panel.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Electric Power Research Institutem Inc.Inventors: Randy Horton, Andrew John Phillips, Charles Perry
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Publication number: 20240097434Abstract: A method for detecting abnormal direct current voltage measurement in a modular multilevel converter high voltage direct current transmission system is provided. In the method, a valve group voltage at a detection pole is obtained, voltages at voltage measurement points at the detection pole are collected, and comparison and determination are performed based on the actual arrangement of the voltage measurement points, and then whether an abnormal measurement occurs at each of the voltage measurement points is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE. CHINA SOUTHERN POWER GRIDInventors: Qinlei CHEN, Shuyong LI, Qi GUO, Libin HUANG, Xuehua LIN, Zhijiang LIU, Deyang CHEN, Chao LUO, Guanming ZENG, Mengjun LIAO, Lijun DENG, Liu CUI, Zhida HUANG, Haiping GUO, Tianyu GUO
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Publication number: 20240097454Abstract: Disclosed are an emergency control method and system based on source-load-storage regulation and cutback. According to the method, output power of power generating sources is regulated according to a power regulating quantity and a frequency regulation requirement, an output power compensation and output frequency of each power generating source are maintained within permissible ranges, so that a balance between power supply and demand of a power distribution network is maintained; and standby energy-storage power stations are used to make up a power gap, and an external power supply system is used to assist in making up a power deficiency, so that large load disturbance can be handled make up the power gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POASTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, STATE GRID ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO. LTDInventors: Dong YUE, Chunxia DOU, Zhijun ZHANG, Wenbin YUE, Xiaohua DING, Jianbo LUO, Yanman LI, Kun HUANG, Tao HAN
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Patent number: 11936186Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for evaluating a degree of frequency regulation urgency of a generator set, a power system and a storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: STATE GRID FUJIAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY LIMITED, STATE GRID FUJIAN ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Zhenhua Xu, Risheng Fang, Ting Huang, Dahai Yu, Kewen Li, Xiangyu Tao, Daoshan Huang, Yi Su, Zhi Chen, Danyue Wu, Huiyu Zhang
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Publication number: 20240067036Abstract: Disclosed is a charging station capable of realizing mutual capacity aid, which comprises a plurality of charging units, a power bus and a mutual capacity aid bus. Each charging unit is powered by the power bus, and each charging unit provides mutual aid capacity for another charging unit through the mutual capacity aid bus or receives mutual aid capacity from other charging units through the mutual capacity aid bus. The charging station can realize rapid charging of electric vehicles, and can also realize mutual capacity aid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicants: JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD., STATE GRID JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER CO., LTD. RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Tiankui SUN, Yubo YUAN, Mingming SHI, Xin FANG, Jinggang YANG, Shuyi ZHUANG, Xiaodong YUAN, Chenyu ZHANG, Lei GAO, Peng LI, Yaojia MA, Shu CHEN, Jing CHEN, Qun LI, Jian LIU
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Patent number: 11888315Abstract: The invention discloses an energy storage transient power coordinated control method for restraining subsequent commutation failures, which includes: detecting DC current, AC bus voltage and arc quenching angle on the inverter side; Controlling the energy storage power station to enter the transient control mode when the DC current is greater than the first current threshold or the AC bus voltage is less than the voltage threshold or the arc quenching angle is less than the first arc quenching angle threshold. By detecting the DC current and arc quenching angle on the inverter side, the active power output time instruction and reactive power output time instruction are determined respectively. The active power output amplitude instruction is determined by detecting the AC bus voltage, and the reactive power output amplitude instruction is determined by using the constraint of the total energy storage capacity.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: STATE GRID HENAN ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Chenghao Li, Wei Yao, Mingyang Liu, Hongyu Zhou, Wei Cui, Jingyu Wen, Ning Zhou, Yufei Rao, Ze Gao, Han Xiao
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Patent number: 11873921Abstract: The present invention is directed to a metering valve for controlling the amount of a fluid passed through the valve and a servo-valve for controlling the metering valve, wherein the servo-valve is decoupled from the metering valve to thermally distance or thermally isolate the servo-valve from any heat from the fluid passing through the metering valve. The metering valve and servo-valve may be used to attemperate a steam stream in a power plant attemperation system, such as a system for attemperating a superheated steam gas stream from a power plant being used for a heat-recovery steam generator. An integrated metering valve and discharge valve for discharging fluid during periods of non-use is also provide. Changeable throttle plates are also provided that control the flow of the fluid through the control chamber of the metering valve and the discharge valve.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Hermann Josef Laumen, Mohamed Douch, Stanley Timothy Rosinski, Bill Gene Carson