Patents Assigned to Electric Power Research Institute
  • Patent number: 11731280
    Abstract: A cable trench inspection robot. The cable trench inspection robot includes a base spreading system, and a camera lifting system disposed on the base spreading system, where the base spreading system includes a base plate, a linear action unit, a cantilever plate, a walking assembly, and a jacking assembly, and the camera lifting system includes a travel block, an imitated four-bar assembly, a support rod, and a camera assembly. Such inspection can realize a through-wall operation by using a cable trench, thereby avoiding many use problems caused by a firewall, and efficiently completing a predetermined inspection task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: STATE GRID ANHUI ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, State Grid Corporation of China
    Inventors: Tao Sun, Minghao Fan, Jiaqing Zhang, Jia Xie, Bo Yan, Daoyou Huang, Songyuan Cao, Liangpeng Ye
  • Patent number: 11728512
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wide-range temperature electrolyte, a preparation thereof and a lithium ion battery. The wide-range temperature electrolyte includes a glycerin segment, a diisocyanate segment and a segment containing at least two terminal hydroxyl groups and one disulfide bond, and the self-healing electrolyte has a three-dimensional cross-linked network structure. The wide-range temperature electrolyte introduces a large number of repetitive disulfide bond groups and self-complementary hydrogen bond structures into molecules of an electrolyte base material having self-complementary hydrogen bond structures, so as to form the three-dimensional cross-linked network structure. An intermolecular exchange reaction of the disulfide bonds realizes a cross-scale (molecular, micro, and macro-scale) damage sensing response of the electrolyte and a rapid self-healing of the material, and further achieves a multi-level (molecule-component-device-system) self-healing repair function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, STATE GRID XINJIANG ELECTRIC POWER CO., LTD. ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yuancheng Cao, Weixin Zhang, Shun Tang, Jian Wang
  • Publication number: 20230253793
    Abstract: Provided an intermittent characteristic-based demand-side resource coordination control method and system. The method includes: receiving a control request, where the control request is used for requesting control of demand-side resources having an intermittent characteristic; determining a target total control quantity of demand-side resources; determining a coordination strategy of multiple demand-side resources and an action quantity of each of the multiple demand-side resources; and performing coordinated control on the multiple demand-side resources based on the target total control quantity of demand-side resources, the coordination strategy, and the action quantity of each of the multiple demand-side resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicants: CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE COMPANY LIMITED, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Yaping Li, Shengchun Yang, Jianguo Yao, Jian Geng, Feng Li, Wenbo Mao, Yong Wang, Jun Liu, Kedong Zhu, Jiahao Yan, Jiantao Liu, Xiaorui Guo, Jing Zhou, Liwen Wang, Peng Xu, Lingling Pan
  • Patent number: 11714136
    Abstract: A method of determining battery degradation retroactively using historical data is disclosed. The method includes the steps of collecting state of charge (SOC) and DC ampere data for a predetermined time period; determining a delta (?) SOC based on the data collected; creating a set of SOC regimes having a size based on ?SOC; filtering the SOC data and determining a set of points which indicate a charging or discharging event; and calculating overall Coulombs associated with each charging or discharging event and for each event, producing a timestamp and Coulombs associated with each event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Hunter Thompson, Peggy Pui Kei Ip, Miles Griffin Evans, Steven Frank Willard
  • Patent number: 11713725
    Abstract: A method for detecting blowout precursors in at least one gas turbine combustor comprising: receiving combustion dynamics acoustic data measured by an acoustic measuring device associated with the combustor in real time; performing wavelet analysis on the acoustic data using simplified Mexican Hat wavelet transform analysis; and determining the existence of a blowout precursor based at least in part on the wavelet analysis. Provided also is a system and a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to perform the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard Charles Angello, David Robert Noble, Andrew Mueller, John Alexander Miltner, Benjamin Emerson, Scott Sheppard, Jared Kee, Timothy Charles Lieuwen
  • Publication number: 20230230780
    Abstract: Disclosed are a passive triggered-power electronic tap-changer device and a contact device. The power electronic tap-changer device comprises: two taps, a main contact, two auxiliary contacts, two trigger contacts, an output terminal, two thyristors, and four voltage divider resistors, which can achieve the passive triggering of a power electronic switch by means of controlling the auxiliary contacts and the trigger contacts. Provided in the present invention is a contact device for the passive triggered-power electronic tap-changer, comprising: at least two stationary contacts, a main contact, two thyristor trigger contacts, two thyristor auxiliary contacts, and a drive shaft, wherein the main contact, the thyristor trigger contacts, and the thyristor auxiliary contacts are fixed to the drive shaft, the contact device can switch the power electronic switch to different stationary contacts by means of controlling the rotation of the drive shaft, and maintains the switching time sequence of passive triggering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicants: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE. CHINA SOUTHERN POWER GRID, SHANGHAI HUAMING POWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yao YUAN, Yi XIAO, Xi ZHANG, Qiang ZHU, Zongming HE, Shuaibing WANG, Lianwei BAO, Jiahui YANG, Wenhao LI, Linjie ZHAO, Ruihai LI
  • Publication number: 20230214634
    Abstract: A spiking neural network acceleration method includes constructing an approximate computation model according to a spiking neuron model and a spiking coding mode. The approximate computation model utilizes the characteristic that spiking frequency domain coding ignores the time semantics of a spiking sequence, compresses the distribution of spiking signals on a time step, and greatly reduces a spiking routing process and a subsequent neural computation process. The time-driven accelerator replans the computation process of the spiking neural network, sets a deduplication queue and a bitmap to solve the problem of spiking jitter, and realizes efficient support on the inhibitory spiking neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co., LTD
    Inventors: Rui HAN, Donglian QI, Yunfeng YAN, Chi ZHANG, Yiming ZHENG, Wang LUO, Ping QIAN, Yong ZHANG, Zheren DAI, Jun CHEN, Chao WANG, Lei GONG, Huarong XU
  • Patent number: 11695299
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a quick-response voltage control method of distribution systems considering multiple participants, comprising a multiple agent system (MAS), which collects the local information of the distribution system controlled by each agent and interacts with the local information collected by each agent, so that voltage-power sensitivity of the distribution system, used for providing the theoretical basis for voltage regulation, is calculated by distributed calculation; and multiple participants, which establish incentive mechanism by DSOs based on the bidding game with imperfect information, and independently decide their own strategies to obtain the voltage regulation subsidy from the DSOs, according to the calculated voltage-power sensitivities, thus provide voltage support for the distribution system in the process of pursuing benefit maximization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: TIANJIN UNIVERSITY, ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA SOUTHERN POWER GRID
    Inventors: Tao Xu, Xiaoxue Wang, He Meng, Han Yang, Peng Li, Xiaobin Guo, Li Yu, Quan Xu, Liqi Liu
  • Patent number: 11674519
    Abstract: A device and method for evaluating long-term operation of a transformer oil pump. An inlet of an oil pump is connected to an outlet of an oil tank through an oil pipe, and an outlet of the oil pump is connected to an inlet of the oil tank through an oil pipe. A pressure gauge is provided on the oil pipe to the inlet and the outlet of the oil pump, respectively. An ultra-high-frequency (UHF) sensor is provided on an inner wall of an oil pipe close to the oil pump. A pressure difference between the oil pipes to the inlet and to the outlet of the oil pump is monitored. A three-phase unbalanced current of a stator winding is monitored. The vibration of the oil pump is monitored. The rotor-to-stator rub is monitored. Based on the above inspection, a long-term health status of the oil pump is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: STATE GRID SHANXI ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hua Yu, Guodong Li, Wei Wang, Hong Liu, Guangqi Mu, Aimin Wang, Tao Jin, Jichong Liang, Haipeng Wang, Yansong Li, Hai Zhang, Zhumao Lu, Lu Bai, Shan Lu, Yanchun Li, Xinwei Wang
  • Patent number: 11674328
    Abstract: An emergency restoration system is disclosed. The emergency restoration system including a base and a tower pivotally connected to the base. The tower including at least one tower section and at least one insulated tower section pivotally connected to the at least one tower section, the insulated tower section including at least one insulator pivotally connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Henri Marais
  • Patent number: 11667548
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a ligated metal-organic framework (MOF) for use in removing both anionic and cationic species from a liquid or liquid stream. The present invention also provides methods for placing the MOF on a substrate to form a MOF-containing product that can be used in the removal of certain species from a given fluid. The MOF may be a Zr-based MOF, such as NU-1000, for removal of certain anions, such as oxy-anions, or having an attached thiosulfonyl-thiol (—SO2—S—R2—SH, where R2 is an alkyl group) ligand for complexation with certain cationic species in addition to the anions. The substrate may be any substrate to which a given MOF may be attached, including inert polypropylene polymer resin beads, a macroscopic fabric such as a mesh material or mesh filter, and a molecular fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul L. Frattini, Keith Paul Fruzzetti
  • Publication number: 20230153737
    Abstract: A method for evaluating the effectiveness of a transformer fire extinguishing system based on a natural language fuzzy analysis is provided, and a method and device for evaluating the fire extinguishing system are established. An expert fuzzy evaluation matrix is established by natural language fuzzifying and de-fuzzifying methods for the effectiveness of the fire extinguishing system. According to the relative influence of each index in the evaluation index system of the effectiveness of the fire extinguishing system, the weight comparison of each index is determined, and the index subjective weight is established based on the weight comparison of each index. A de-fuzzified matrix is obtained by de-fuzzifying an expert fuzzy evaluation matrix, and based on the de-fuzzified matrix, an objective weight is obtained by an entropy weight method. A comprehensive weight is obtained by combining the subjective and objective weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicants: STATE GRID ANHUI ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Jiaqing ZHANG, Fengju SHANG, Xiaodong ZHANG, Xinjie QIU, Dengfeng CHENG, Yifu ZHOU, Yi GUO, Yubiao HUANG, Wen SU, Rui LIU
  • Publication number: 20230135970
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicants: STATE GRID HENAN ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chenghao LI, Wei YAO, Mingyang LIU, Hongyu ZHOU, Wei CUI, Jingyu WEN, Ning ZHOU, Yufei RAO, Ze GAO, Han XIAO
  • Publication number: 20230134077
    Abstract: A method for detecting a storage life of a pre-crosslinked material is provided. Tableting is performed on an unaged pre-crosslinked material to obtain crosslinked polyethylene. A crosslinking degree and a mechanical property of the crosslinked polyethylene are measured to obtain reference data. The pre-crosslinked material is heated to obtain a fast-aged pre-crosslinked material. The crosslinking degree and mechanical property of crosslinked polyethylene obtained from the fast-aged pre-crosslinked material are measured to obtain measurement results, which are compared with the reference data. If comparison results all fall within corresponding ranges, the time period of heating is increased by a step to repeat the above steps until the comparison results do not all fall within the corresponding ranges. A result obtained by subtracting the step from the time period of heating is converted into a time period of storage at the room temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicants: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE. CHINA SOUTHERN POWER GRID, SHENZHEN POWER SUPPLY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaolin LI, Mingli FU, Shuai HOU, Baojun HUI, Wenbo ZHU, Guoxing WU, Hong XIE, Xiao CHEN, Shu XU, Bin FENG, Yifan ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11631238
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for recognizing distribution network equipment based on Raspberry Pi multi-scale feature fusion. The method includes obtaining an initial sample data set; constructing an object detection network composed of EfficientNe-B0 backbone network, multi-scale feature fusion module and a regression classification prediction head; training the object detection network by taking the initial sample data set as a training sample; finally, detecting inspection pictures by using a the trained object detection network. A light-weight EfficientNet-B0 backbone network feature extraction method obtains more features of objects. Meanwhile, an introduction of multi-scale feature fusion better adapts to small object detection, and a light-weight y_pred regression classification detection head is effectively deployed and realized in Raspberry Pi embedded equipment with tight resources and limited computing power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: IANGXI ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STATE GRID, JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wenbin Wang, Ruixiang Fan, Chen Chen, Zhixiang Deng, Yuanwen Lu, Jianbing Pan
  • Patent number: 11616371
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for calculating a parameter changing domain of loads under a case that guarantees a constant locational marginal price in an electricity market, which relates to the electricity market field of the power system. With the method in the disclosure, the clearing model on the locational marginal price in the general form is established, and the safe changing domain of the locational marginal price with respect to the loads may be derived and calculated based on the first-order KKT condition expansion of the clearing model on the locational marginal price in the general form. When the increment of the nodal loads is subordinate to the changing domain, the locational marginal price may remain unchanged. The parameter changing domain of loads in the power system may be used for the comprehensive evaluation of power market clearing results and assisting the operation of the power market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: STATE GRID FUJIAN ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Qinglai Guo, Hongbin Sun, Nianfeng Tian, Wenchuan Wu, Bin Chen, Jianye Huang
  • Publication number: 20230077959
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are an IGBT device backside structure and a preparation method therefor, and an IGBT device, the IGBT device backside structure comprising a buffer layer, the buffer layer comprising a first activation efficiency buffer area corresponding to an active area of the IGBT device and a second activation efficiency buffer area corresponding to a terminal area of the IGBT device, the activation efficiency of the first activation efficiency buffer area being less than the activation efficiency of the second activation efficiency buffer area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicants: STATE GRID SMART GRID RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD., STATE GRID SHANXI ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Li LI, Rui JIN, Yaohua WANG, Shaohua DONG, Jiang LIU, Mingchao GAO, Junmin WU, Lu BAI, Guanliang LI
  • Publication number: 20230070173
    Abstract: A system for load identification in collaboration with a cloud end includes: a smart Internet of Things electricity meter module, used for matching extracted feature quantity data with a first load feature library of the smart Internet of Things electricity meter module, and determining load feature data corresponding to unmatched feature quantity data in the feature quantity data as target load feature data; a use information front-end/acquisition module, used for calling the target load feature data and transmitting the target load feature data to a main station load identification module; and a main station load identification module, used for receiving the target load feature data, performing data direction processing on the target load feature data, determining an optimal matching strategy matching the feature data to be identified, and identifying an optimal matching solution corresponding to the feature quantity data to be identified in a second load feature library.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicants: CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Xingqi LIU, Enguo ZHU, Heping ZOU, Fantao LIN, Min LEI, Yinghui XU, Hao CHEN, Zhongxing WU, Yupeng ZHANG, Zixu ZHU, Yue HAN
  • Patent number: 11574759
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a device for evaluating and demagnetizing residual magnetism quantity of a power transformer. A main circuit comprises a switching power supply the two ends of which are respectively connected with a filter capacitor and a resistor in parallel. A forward end of the switching power supply is connected with a main switch in series. A rear end of the main switch is connected with a series branch of a sixth switch and a first resistor, a series branch of a first switch and a second switch, and a series branch of a third switch and a fourth switch are connected in parallel. A driving circuit is respectively connected with driving ends of the main switch, the sixth, first, second, third and fourth switches. A control circuit is connected with the driving circuit for sending an instruction to the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd. Research Institute, Jiangsu Electric Power Research Institute Corporation Limited, State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd., Nanjing DNN Technology Co., LTD
    Inventors: Fengbo Tao, Jiansheng Li, Chao Wei, Yang Liu, Xu Wei, Yuncai Lu, Shu Chen, Hairong Wei, Yiming Wu, Xiaoping Yang, Jieqing Deng, Peng Wu, Tianxi Xie, Shengquan Wang, Caibo Liao, Ruibin Li
  • Patent number: 11561252
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a coaxial lead structure and method for radiating a GIS partial discharge UHF signal outward. The structure includes a GIS cavity, a circular hole provided on the GIS cavity, a medium cylinder provided at the circular hole and sealing the circular hole, a thin cylindrical metal lead that extends into and is fixed to the medium cylinder, and a ground lead connected to the thin cylindrical metal lead. According to the present disclosure, a relatively strong signal may be obtained outside a coaxial lead structure, and detection of a partial discharge UHF signal at this position may increase the detection sensitivity by one time compared with the detection methods of built-in and external disc insulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: State Grid Fujian Electric Power Co., Ltd., State Grid Fujian Electric Power Research Institute, North China Electric Power University
    Inventors: Zhaoping Ye, Shusheng Zheng, Ye Chen, Dengfeng Wei, Zhiwen Bian, Yanxue Guo, Ying Ruan, Yonghao Wu, Jinxiang Chen, Zhiwei Fu, Mingfeng Deng, Yu Zheng