Patents Assigned to Electric Power Research Institute
  • Patent number: 9762327
    Abstract: A single-core optical transceiver is an optical transceiver for transmitting or receiving an optical signal through a single optical fiber. The single-core optical transceiver has a light emitting device for transmitting the optical signal and a light receiving device for receiving the optical signal. The light emitting device is an LED configured including a sapphire substrate arranged on a light receiving surface of the light receiving device so as to be coaxial with the light receiving surface, and a nitride semiconductor layer laid on the sapphire substrate. Even with the light emitting device being arranged on the light receiving surface of the light receiving device, the optical signal from the optical fiber can be received on the entire area of the light receiving surface, so as to adequately improve the light sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignees: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K., Nanjing Guanglu Electronics Co., Ltd., CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yuto Inagaki, Takayuki Suzuki, Guo Xiang Hu, Weimin Hao
  • Patent number: 9753469
    Abstract: A device for harvesting energy from a power line carrying AC current including: a transformer having a core with separate first and second sections, the core being formed of ceramic material or layered nickel alloy tape; a first secondary winding wound around the first section of the core; a second secondary winding wound around the second section of the core; a first DC core-flux control winding wound around the first section of the core; and a second DC core-flux control winding wound around the second section of the core; wherein the core is configured to be in operative communication with a magnetic field radiated from the power line, such that an AC voltage is generated in the first and second secondary windings, and the maximum AC voltage produced by the first and second secondary windings is limited by the first and second DC core-flux control windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Norman D. McCollough
  • Patent number: 9752960
    Abstract: A system and method for anomaly detection is provided. The system (100) and method (200) include utilizing one or more processors, such as in a server, for receiving (108) operational and dynamics data (104) from sensors associated with devices (102), filtering the data, establishing a set of baseline dynamics data and eliminating data dependencies (110). The system and method further include generating an expected level of data variation (112), identifying an anomaly based on a deviation of the device data from the baseline data normalized by the expected level of data variation (114), optionally correlating an anomaly with potential causes, and providing an output indicating an anomaly (116).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard Angello, Tim Lieuwen, David Robert Noble, Brian Poole
  • Patent number: 9753079
    Abstract: A testing device for propagation characteristic of electromagnetic wave in gas insulated switchgear includes an ultrahigh frequency signal generator, a GIS testing chamber, an emitting antenna and a receiving antenna which are provided inside the GIS testing chamber. A detachable disc insulator is provided between the emitting antenna and the receiving antenna. Both terminals of a GIS testing chamber are sealed by polyurethane wave-absorbing sponge; the ultrahigh frequency signal generator is connected with the emitting antenna, and the receiving antenna is connected with a oscilloscope. A guide rod which is fixed by the disc insulator is provided in the GIS testing chamber. The present invention is capable of achieving testing propagation characteristic of partial discharge ultrahigh frequency electromagnetic wave signal of a gas insulated switchgear in a laboratory, so as to master attenuation characteristics of the partial discharge ultrahigh frequency electromagnetic wave signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: STATE GRID HUBEI ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Jun Chen, Jinbin Li, Jun Lu, Haiqiong Liu, Min Chen, Hao Wang, Jiangang Bi, Shuai Yuan, Yuan Yang, Junhao Li, Jianfeng Liang, Yanming Li
  • Patent number: 9716597
    Abstract: A method for quickly carrying out effective automatic interlocking logic detection based on a GOOSE communication mechanism, comprising: introducing an automatic system device model and configuration satisfying the IEC61850 standard, and simulating a GOOSE communication behavior in which an intelligent electronic device acts as a quick packet transmitter and receiver, so as to realize the closed-loop detection function by independent publishing and feedback monitoring GOOSE information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignees: State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Company
    Inventors: Lixiang Ruan, Chengyu Lu, Dongqi Wu, Song Wang, Feng Ding, Kai Tong, Jiazhuo Xuan
  • Patent number: 9714179
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process of oxygenated feed-water treatment of boilers in power station, carried out under an OT treatment process, suitable for both the monotube type boiler and the drum type boiler, and comprising an oxygenation stage comprising: a normal oxygenation converting stage and a decreased oxygenation film-supplementing stage; the normal oxygenation converting stage is a stage in which the feed water system is oxygenated both at the outlet of a condensate polishing system and at the inlet of a feed water pump of a high pressure feed water system, and the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the main steam is controlled to be ?5 ?g/L; the decreased oxygenation film-supplementing stage is a stage in which, after an oxide film is formed in the feed water system, the amount of oxygenation at the high pressure feed water system is decreased so that the amount of the oxygen added is only for supplementing and maintaining the oxide film, while the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Z (P) EPC Electric Power Research Institute
    Inventors: Zhouhai Qian, Liwei Zhu, Qiuyang Cao, Shenglin Pang, Likui Feng, Xiulin Xiao, Chen Zhou, Canfei Hong
  • Patent number: 9689856
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for assessing the presence or absence, and optionally quantitating, the surface loading of a noble metal such as platinum on the surface of a substrate. The invention utilizes the decomposition rate of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) or other redox active molecule following exposure to the substrate surface to effectively establish a qualitative or quantitative correlation between the redox agent survival fraction and the presence or absence of noble metal (e.g., platinum), and further, for the quantitation of noble metal loading on the substrate surface. The invention finds applicability in assessing the surface loading of noble metals on the internal surfaces of boiling water nuclear reactor plants (BWR) that have undergone prior noble metal application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Susan Elaine Garcia, Thomas Pompilio Diaz, Samson Hettiarachchi, Rajeshwar Singh Pathania
  • Patent number: 9672187
    Abstract: A non-destructive testing system includes directing guided wave energy to regions of interest in waveguides. Knowing the propagation paths taken by guided wave energy in complex waveguides can be used to intentionally insonify regions of interest. Additionally, knowledge of the propagation direction and location of an energy mode in a waveguide allows the calculation of the path previously taken by the energy mode. This information can be used for signal processing of guided wave inspection systems. The test system can have various sensor configurations including: a single transducer configured to direct or receive guided wave energy along a particular direction, a one-dimensional array or a two dimensional array of transducers. The transducers can operate independently to provide mutual phasing and amplitude adjusting to steer guided wave energy in a waveguide or determine the directionality of guided wave energy received by the sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignees: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Luke Breon, Michael J Quarry, Joseph L. Rose, Ehsan Khajeh
  • Publication number: 20170146603
    Abstract: An integrated high and low voltage ride through test system, comprising a primary system and a secondary system; the secondary system controls the primary system to realize information interaction, and is connected to a power grid and a wind generation set via an inlet wire switch cabinet and an outlet wire switch cabinet of the primary system; the integrated high and low voltage ride through test system actually simulates voltage drop and rise characteristics in a power grid failure, ensures that when generating a low voltage and a high voltage, the change of a voltage phase angle and power quality are consistent with actual power grid failure characteristics, and enables coherent low voltage and high voltage ride through capacity testing on the wind generation set in a primary test process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicants: State Grid Corporation of China, China Electric Power Research Institute, CEPRI ZHANGBEI WIND POWER RESEARCH AND TEST CO. LT D.
    Inventors: Shiyao QIN, Ruiming WANG, Yong SUN, Shaolin LI, Chen CHEN, Jinping ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9660450
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a monitoring and controlling system and method for megawatt level battery energy storage power plant, which includes: a central monitoring and controlling module is used to determine the power command value of each energy storage substation of the battery energy storage power plant, and send it to all the local monitoring and controlling modules; the local monitoring and controlling modules is used to calculate the power command value of each energy storage unit of the energy storage substations controlled by it, and sending it to each energy storage unit, and upload to the central monitoring and controlling module to store. Between the central monitoring and controlling module and the local monitoring and controlling modules, the data transmission and communication are carried out through communication networks; the communication networks adopt real time and non real time communication parallel network structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignees: ZHANGJIAKOU WIND AND SOLAR POWER ENERGY DEMONSTRATION, CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Xiangjun Li, Dong Hui, Xiaokang Lai, Xuecui Jia, Liye Wang, Guangchao Guo, Ping Wang, Yanting Liang, Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9659114
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a real time dynamic physics simulation device of flexible DC transmission system. The device includes simulated converter transformer, simulated AC field, simulated DC field, simulated converter reactor, simulated converter, and measurement and control cabinet chassis; the simulated AC field includes the vacuum switch I, the contactor I, resistors and the vacuum switch II connected orderly; the simulated DC field includes successively connected the vacuum switch contactor III and II; the simulated AC field is connected with said measurement and control cabinet chassis; Said converter transformer is set between said resistors and said vacuum switch II; Said simulated converter reactors and said simulated converter connected are set between the vacuum switch II and the vacuum switch III.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignees: STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA, CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Zhiyuan He, Dong Liu, Yan Zhao, Yuefeng Yang, Renqiu Wang
  • Patent number: 9651604
    Abstract: A grounding grid breakpoint diagnostic method for a transient electromagnetic method, based on a transient electromagnetic detection apparatus. The method comprises: (101) disposing a test line at a position above a grounding grid to be diagnosed on the ground, and determining coordinates of a detection point; (102) obtaining information about coordinates of the detection point, and coinciding the center of the transient electromagnetic detection apparatus with the coordinates of the detection point; (103) performing, by the transient electromagnetic detection apparatus, measurement along the test line point by point, so as to obtain measurement data; (104) processing, by using diagram forming software, the measurement data to form a longitudinal resistivity cross-section diagram of the detection point according to a preset formula; (105) determining whether a breakpoint occurs at the detection point according to the longitudinal resistivity cross-section diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignees: State Grid Chongqing Electric Power Co. Electric Power Research Institute, State Gride Corporation of China
    Inventors: Xingzhe Hou, Jin Fu, Qian Wang, Minghui Bao, Gaolin Wu, Shiyu Tang, Yongliang Ji, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 9632114
    Abstract: This present inversion provides a digital closed-loop fiber optical current sensor. The modulation signal of the optical wave “phase modulator” of the fiber optical current sensor system is modulation square wave, signal processing system extracts any harmonic wave of the photoelectric converter output modulation square waves, and extracts the measured current information from it. The preamplifier of signal processing system is transimpedance amplifier TIA, the bandwidth is extracted 1/650 instantaneous amplitude square wave directly from the modulation square wave (existing), thus the thermal noise of the preamplifier output and shot noise level is reduced to the existing technology of below 1/650; the current-voltage gain of transimpedance amplifier TIA does not depend on the feedback network resistance, thus it can have high current-voltage conversion gain and use low resistance in the feedback network TIA at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: China Electric Power Research Institute
    Inventors: Xiangxun Chen, Jianbo Guo, Ping Jing, Shuo Chen, Shujie Yin, Zhanyuan Liu
  • Patent number: 9618268
    Abstract: An evaporative condenser radiating module for steam exhaust of a steam turbine comprises tube bundles and steam-water separating chambers. A steam-water separating chamber (4) between a section A and a section B, a section A downflow cooling section tube bundle (3), a section B downflow cooling section tube bundle (5), and a counter flow cooling section tube bundle (8) are disposes at the left side of a central steam-water separating chamber (7). An upper sealed space (10) of the steam-water separating chamber (4) between the section A and the section B is in communication with the central steam-water separating chamber (7) through the counter flow cooling section tube bundle (8). A lower sealed space of the steam-water separating chamber (4) between the section A and the section B is in communication with the central steam-water separating chamber (7) through the section B downflow cooling section tube bundle (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignees: Shanxi Electric Power Research Institute, Shanxi Electric Power Company
    Inventors: Honghui Shi, Qingzhong Ma, Jin Wang, Jiayong Lu, Longying Zhang, Zhigang Bai
  • Patent number: 9614364
    Abstract: A detection system of distributed generation islanding based on power frequency carrier, the detection system comprising: a power frequency carrier signal generating device; a power frequency carrier signal detection device; a signal coupling transformer; a substation bus; a distribution power generator (DG); and a safety isolation breaker, wherein the power frequency carrier signal generating device comprises a voltage and current monitor circuit, the power frequency carrier signal generating device is connected with the signal coupling transformer through four three phase four line power cables, and the signal coupling transformer is connected with substation bus through 3 power cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignees: STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA, China Electric Power Research Institute
    Inventors: Biyao Huang, Jianqi Li, Guojun Liu, Zhihui Wang, Nan Quan, Xiaofeng Qu, Tao Zhao, Licheng Wang
  • Patent number: 9589690
    Abstract: A method for the cleanup of ionic species such as cobalt and nickel in nuclear power plant aqueous streams using a sequestration resin material is disclosed herein. The method includes the steps of providing a sequestration resin for removal of radioisotopes of transition metal impurities contained in the plant process streams, and distributing the sequestration resin into the plant process streams such that the sequestration resin interacts with the process streams and removes the transition metal impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Paul L. Frattini, Roger Howard Asay, Keith Paul Fruzzetti, Susan Elaine Garcia, Richard Herbert Kohlmann, Daniel Morgan Wells
  • Publication number: 20170025978
    Abstract: A low-frequency band suppression enhanced anti-reversal power system stabilizer is presented by the invention. Currently the widely used PSS2B power system stabilizer needs lead elements above Order 2 to meet the phase compensation requirement of DC blocking signal of active power, thus quickly increasing high-frequency band gain, restricting allowable total setting gain of PSS, limiting low-band gain and reducing low-frequency band suppression ability of power system stabilizer. The invention will add generator speed signal ? (which is treated by DC blocking element and corrected by parallel proportional differential PD) and active power signal Pe (which is treated by DC blocking element and gained by gain factor Ks3) to get equivalent synthetic mechanical power of power system stabilizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicants: State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Research Institute, STATE GRID Corporation of China, NR Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventors: KUAYU WU, CENCEN LU, LONG WU, XIAOMING HUANG, CHENGYU LU, BOLIANG LOU, BING HAN, JIAHUA LU, HONGTAO XIONG, YIJUN SHEN, HAIQING LU
  • Patent number: 9551761
    Abstract: The use of implanted medical devices that address a wide range of health conditions is rapidly expanding. These implanted devices include: Cochlear implants, drug dispensing pumps, cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators and other devices. Although these devices are designed to withstand interference from external radio frequency, electric and magnetic fields, interference can occur which may affect the operation of these devices and pose a health risk. An inventive personal, body-wearable electric field, radio frequency, and three-axis magnetic field monitoring device detects the ambient radio frequency, electric and magnetic fields and warns the wearer when any of these field measurements exceeds a safe level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Norman Darnell McCollough, Jr., Philip Cochrane, Robert Ira Kavet
  • Patent number: 9534656
    Abstract: A method for controlling structure-borne noise based on a combined-type vibration isolation device includes the following steps: S1: determining a combined-type vibration isolation device as required according to parameters of a mechanical device to be isolated, and installing the combined-type vibration isolation device on a horizontal bearing surface; S2: vertically placing the mechanical device to be isolated on the combined-type vibration isolation device; S3: adjusting a mass of an intermediate balance weight block of the combined-type vibration isolation device; and S4: adjusting an inherent frequency of the combined-type vibration isolation device to be lower than a structural vibration sound transmission frequency generated in the operation of the mechanical device to be isolated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA (SGCC), STATE GRID CHONGQING ELECTRIC POWER CO. ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Luwen Xu, Guojun He, Fangqing Gao, Xiaorui Hu, Anxin Zou
  • Patent number: 9535105
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for accurately detecting and monitoring leakage currents on porcelain and glass insulator disc strings is disclosed. The sensor apparatus includes a sensor unit configured to attach to a cap of an insulator disc string. The sensor unit includes a sensor disc configured to surround the cap and a housing connected to the sensor disc. The sensor disc includes a conducting lower disc set, a conducting upper disc set, an insulating disc set sandwiched between the upper and lower conducting disc sets, and a conducting mesh connected to a bottom of the lower disc set. The housing including electronics configured to measure and communicate leakage currents on an insulator disc. Leakage currents on a surface of the insulator disc are intercepted by the sensor disc and transferred to the housing for processing and communication by the electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew John Phillips, Christiaan Stephan Engelbrecht, J. Mark Major, Robert Carlton Lynch