Patents Assigned to Electric Power Research Institute
  • Publication number: 20230387687
    Abstract: A method for checking a medium-term and long-term maintenance plan of a power grid. A predicted load value and one or more historical load values of a power grid are acquired and clustered through a clustering algorithm, and a historical moment at which a historical load value is in a same cluster as the predicted load value and has a largest load value is selected as a target historical moment. A power grid operation mode model at the target historical moment is acquired, and the power grid operation mode model is updated according to the maintenance plan and open loop point information by using a full wiring approach to obtain a future-state power grid operation mode model. Ground state power flow data of the power grid are calculated based on the operation mode model, and safety check is carried out according to a preset ground state power flow limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicants: China Electric Power Research Institute, State Grid Shanxi Electric Power Research Institute
    Inventors: Yuxuan LI, Chuancheng ZHANG, Sai DAI, Hui CUI, Qiang DING, Lixin LI, Qiang LI, Yi PAN, Zhi CAI, Yueshuang BAO, Xinyuan LIU, Huiping ZHENG, Wei HAN, Wei WANG, Lei WANG, Jinghua YAN, Bin HAN, Xiaojing HU, Bo LI, Guodong HUANG, Dan XU, Jiali ZHANG, Weigang LI
  • Publication number: 20230387691
    Abstract: 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 horizo
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicants: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, STATE GRID ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO. LTD
    Inventors: Dong YUE, Chunxia DOU, Zhijun ZHANG, Xiaohua DING, Jianbo LUO, Yanman LI, Kun HUANG, Tao HAN
  • Patent number: 11815564
    Abstract: A method for analyzing a correlation between rail transit and direct current (DC) magnetic bias of a transformer includes the steps of, A: obtaining a current of a feed cable and a DC magnetic bias current: measuring the feed cable current in rail transit and the DC magnetic bias current of a transformer in a power grid within a certain period by a monitoring apparatus; B: calculating a characteristic quantity of the feed current within the measurement period based on the obtained current of the feed cable; C: calculating a characteristic quantity of the DC magnetic bias current within the measurement period based on the DC magnetic bias current; and D: calculating a support degree and a confidence coefficient based on the calculated characteristic quantity of the feed current and the calculated characteristic quantity of the DC magnetic bias current, and generating a correlation rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: State Grid Hubei Electric Power Research Institute, State Grid Hubei Wuhan Electric Power Supply Company, Wuhan Power Supply Design Institute Co., Ltd., State Grid Hubei Electric Power Co., Ltd., China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co., Ltd., Wuhan Xindian Electric Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Metro Construction Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zeyang Tang, Ling Ruan, Yong Yao, Jian Wang, Shuang Chen, Chao Cai, Zhi Tian, Lingxiao Gao, Xiaoxun Deng, Zhichun Yang, Ling Qiu, Zhou Ge
  • Patent number: 11815565
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for perceiving an operating state of a large power transformer based on vibro-acoustic integration, including a perception layer, a network layer, and a diagnostic layer, where the perception layer is used for monitoring, in real time, a state parameter for a coupling vibration signal and an acoustic signal of each of a transformer core, a winding, a clamp and a housing, a state parameter of each of a vibration signal and an acoustic signal during a gear position change of an on-load tap changer (OLTC), and preliminarily diagnosing and analyzing monitored data. The system can monitor the operating state of the OLTC online for a long time, flexibly configure the sensor channel and the sensor type according to different application requirements, automatically acquire and identify the gear position change, and correctly identify and process a gear position corresponding to the monitoring signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: STATE GRID XINJIANG CO., LTD. ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Nanjing Unitech Electric Power Co., Ltd., State Grid Corporation of China
    Inventors: Yi You, Ling Zhang, Kaike Wang, Cheng He, Puzhi Zhao, Ronggang Gao, Jianping Zhao, Xinxin Wang, Xianfu Liu
  • Publication number: 20230361552
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a line protection method and a related apparatus for a flexible grounding system of a power distribution network. The method comprises outputting a first compensation voltage by a voltage source of a flexible grounding device of each line of a target power distribution network in the case where a ground fault occurs in the target power distribution network; starting to calculate the zero-sequence impedance of each line in real time by the zero-sequence impedance protection device; after the first compensation voltage is output for a first output duration, outputting a second compensation voltage; calculating the zero-sequence impedance of each line in real time by the line zero-sequence impedance protection device; determining a fault line by the zero-sequence impedance protection device, and cutting off the fault line to isolate the ground fault after a trip for a preset time delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Electric Power Research Institute of Yunnan Power Grid Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hongwen Liu, Xianping Zhao, Jindong Yang, Chenchao Chai, Lijun Tang, Ding Nie, Quancong Zhu, Yongjie Nie, Dexu Zou, Shaolei Zhai, Zhilei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11788834
    Abstract: Provided is a method for measuring surface characteristics of at least a portion of an object, including providing a light source; generating a first interference pattern on the at least a portion of the object; capturing an image of the first interference pattern; shifting the phase of the light source to generate a second interference pattern; capturing an image of the second interference pattern; filtering distortion from the interference patterns; extracting a wrapped phase of the at least a portion of the object based on the images; unwrapping the wrapped phase of the at least a portion of the object to generate an unwrapped phase; identifying a computed depth map distance to the at least a portion of the object; and fitting an ideal part to the computed depth map of the at least a portion of the object to measure the surface characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: David Stoutamire, Dennis Hussey
  • Publication number: 20230322098
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical topology of an integrated DC charging station and an operation control method. The electrical topology comprises a supply side DC bus, K discrete charging pile units and a mutual aid total DC bus; each charging pile unit comprises an input DC bus, a mutual aid sub-DC bus, an output DC bus, N isolation branches, a non-isolation DC/DC module and an output terminal, the input DC bus is connected to the supply side DC bus, and the mutual aid sub-DC bus of each charging pile unit is connected to the mutual aid total DC bus; the isolation branch comprises an output branch and a mutual aid branch; and when all the output branches of one charging pile, unit are started and the output power cannot meet the required power, the mutual aid branches of other charging pile units are started to meet the required power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicants: STATE GRID JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER CO., LTD. RESEARCH INSTITUTE, JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tiankui SUN, Mingming SHI, Xiaolong XIAO, Jinggang YANG, Liguo LIU, Qifeng HUANG, Shuyi ZHUANG, Wei SU, Lei GAO, Yubo YUAN, Xiaodong YUAN, Jian LIU, Shu CHEN
  • Patent number: 11781449
    Abstract: The invention provides various designs of an apparatus and method for attemperating a gas stream temperature. The apparatus of the present invention provides a body through which a gas stream passes that permits, as desired, a second gas, such as gas outside of the gas duct or such as ambient air, to be added to the main gas stream to attemperate the temperature of the main gas stream. The body or device may be referred to as a variable eductor having a plurality of openings through which a second gas may pass into the main gas stream. The openings may be opened or closed, and the variable eductor provides control over which openings and the degree to which each opening is opened. In some designs the variable eductor is inserted between two portions of a gas duct. The variable eductor has widespread application, such as downstream of a gas turbine to attemperate the exhaust gas temperature during startup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Merrill Stanton Quintrell
  • Patent number: 11777313
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a unit commitment method considering security region of wind turbine generators with frequency response control, and the main steps are: 1) determining security region of wind turbine generators when provides frequency response; 2) based on the security region of the wind turbine generators when provides frequency response, establishing a unit commitment model considering security region of wind turbine generators; and 3) calculating the unit commitment model considering the security region of the wind turbine generators by using mixed-integer linear programming method, and obtaining the operation result of the unit commitment considering the security region of the wind turbine generators with frequency response control. The present invention can be widely used in the setting of frequency response parameters of wind turbine generators dispatched in the prior art and the start-stop and output plans of synchronous generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: State Grid Qinghai Electric Power Research Institute, Chongqing University, State Grid Qinghai Electric Power Company, State Grid Corporation of China
    Inventors: Yue Fan, Senlin Yang, Juan Yu, Xiaoku Yang, Ling Dong, Jun Kang, Maochun Wang, Yongqiang Han, Zhifang Yang, Rui Song, Xuebin Wang, Juelin Liu, Haiting Wang, Xiaokan Gou, Guobin Fu, Chunmeng Chen, Pengsheng Xie, Yanhe Li, Shichang Zhao, Xuan Wang, Ying Liang, Jun Yang, Shujie Zhang, Ming Xiao, Jiatian Gan, Guoqiang Lu, Yujie Ding, Dongning Zhao, Jia Yang, Ke Liu, Shaofei Wang, Yongfei Ma, Jie Zhang, Aizhen Zhu, Kaixuan Yang, Shuxian Yuan
  • Patent number: 11759729
    Abstract: A device and method for degassing an on-load tap-changer (OLTC) of a transformer for convenient on-site operation. The degassing device includes an OLTC. The OLTC is respectively connected with an oil suction pipe and an oil injection pipe. One end of the oil suction pipe extends to the inside bottom of the OLTC, and the other end of the oil suction pipe extends to the outside of the OLTC to connect with an oil suction and degassing device. One end of the oil injection pipe extends to an upper part inside the OLTC, and the other end of the oil injection pipe extends to the outside of the OLTC to connect with a vacuum oil injection device. The present disclosure has the advantages of convenient on-site operation, excellent degassing effect, simple structure and convenient installation, reduces degassing time and manpower and investment in maintenance, and improves degassing quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: State Grid Liaoning Electric Power Research Institute
    Inventors: Yuxiao Zhou, Lu Liu, Honggang Han, Xuchen Lu, Jianhong Kong, Defu Wei, Tie Guo, Hao Chen, Yang Liu, Nan Wang, Zijian Zhao, Shiqing Wang, Chang Liu, Dawei Jiang, Yue Gao
  • Publication number: 20230291207
    Abstract: A networked control method for primary frequency regulation of a new energy power station based on a source-grid-load-storage networked cloud decision control system platform comprises: determining, according to historical operating data of a new energy power station, primary frequency regulation predictive values of power generation units of the new energy power station; determining, according to the primary frequency regulation predictive values, optimal control sequences of inverters of the power generation units at different times based on a pre-established inverter active power model, wherein the optimal control sequences comprise multiple control quantities of active power of the inverters; marking the optimal control sequences at the different times with time scales, sending the optimal control sequences to executing devices of the power generation units, receiving the optimal control sequences, and determining whether to store or not store the optimal control sequences; and determining the control qua
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicants: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, STATE GRID ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Dong YUE, Chunxia DOU, Zhijun ZHANG, Xiaohua DING, Jianbo LUO, Yanman LI, Kun HUANG, Tao HAN
  • Publication number: 20230280386
    Abstract: A method and a system for locating a fault of a complex power line are provided. Several monitoring points on the complex power line can be obtained by providing several traveling wave head monitoring sensors on the complex power line. The complex power line is transformed into coordinates in conjunction with an arrival moment and a location corresponding to the monitoring points, thereby establishing a trunk line fault-locating equation related to a line location, the arrival moment, and a traveling wave propagation speed, from which a first fault point can thus be derived simply and quickly. If a fault point is located on a branch line, a branch line fault-locating equation is then established to derive a second fault point. Furthermore, the first fault point and the second fault point serve as a basis for deriving a target fault point of the complex power line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Electric Power Research Institute of Yunnan Power Grid Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hongwen Liu, Xiangjun Zeng, Jindong Yang, Hao Bai, Ding Nie, Jisheng Huang, Lijun Tang, Guochao Qian, Dexu Zou, Xincui Tian
  • Publication number: 20230280388
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and a related device for locating a ring power network fault. The method comprises: expanding in each ring line segment with an arbitrary point as a coordinate origin in a ring power network to construct a plurality of reference coordinate systems; acquiring monitoring point coordinate information and wavehead arrival time information of each of the monitoring point positions; acquiring assumed fault point information; acquiring a traveling wave propagation speed; constructing a plurality of distributed fault location equation sets according to the monitoring point coordinate information, the wavehead arrival time information, the assumed fault point information and the traveling wave propagation speed in each of the reference coordinate systems; and determining an actual fault position according to a solution result of each of the distributed fault location equation sets and the assumed fault section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Electric Power Research Institute of Yunnan Power Grid Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongwen Liu, Xianping Zhao, Jindong Yang, Chenchao Chai, Lijun Tang, Ding Nie, Quancong Zhu, Yongjie Nie, Dexu Zou, Shaolei Zhai, Zhilei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11749985
    Abstract: A method and device for timing in time-varying distance protection based on multiple lines of a tower. The method includes: collecting an instantaneous current value at a time-varying distance protection installation location in the multiple lines of the tower, and acquiring preset parameters; calculating, according to the preset parameters and a multi-line ranging model, a multi-line ranging result; calculating, according to the preset parameters, the multi-line ranging result, and an adaptive calculation model, time of a section-II distance protection action and final time of a section-III distance protection action; and determining, according to the instantaneous current value, the preset parameters, and a cross-line failure auxiliary criterion model, final time of the section-II distance protection action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Zexin Zhou, Tianhua Li, Hong Cao, Yarong Guo, Xingguo Wang, Dingxiang Du, Delin Wang, Pengfei Lv, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11745608
    Abstract: An electrical connector apparatus that magnetically aligns electrical contacts in a suspended magnetic connector with mating electrical contacts in a vehicle magnetic connector and holds the connectors together during an electric vehicle charging process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas D. Geist, Doni J. Nastasi
  • Patent number: 11742652
    Abstract: A method and device for starting direct-current (DC) transmission line protection, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining whether a sudden change of a DC line current at a present moment is greater than a sum of a memory start threshold and a maximum value in sudden changes of the DC line current within a time period preceding the present moment that is multiplied by a preset proportional coefficient, the time period being a time period between a moment preceding the present moment by a first duration and a moment preceding the present moment by a second duration; and starting DC transmission line protection in response to determining that the sudden change of the DC line current at the present moment is greater than the sum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Hong Cao, Zexin Zhou, Huanzhang Liu, Dingxiang Du, Xingguo Wang
  • Patent number: 11738404
    Abstract: A method of eliminating dissimilar metal welds has been disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a first part having a first alloy composition; providing a second part having a second alloy composition different from the first part; connecting a containment structure to the first part; pouring a powder into the containment structure such that the powder is in contact with the first part; positioning a portion of the second part in the containment structure such that the second part compresses the powder between the first and second parts; and performing hot isostatic pressing (HIP) to consolidate the powder and join the first and second parts together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Sutton, David Wayne Gandy
  • 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