Patents by Inventor Pushkar Chandrakant Chaudhari

Pushkar Chandrakant Chaudhari has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12244244
    Abstract: A controller-implemented method and system for operating a multi-level bridge power converter connected to a power grid in a fault-tolerant operational mode, the power converter including a first converter coupled to a DC link, the first converter including a plurality of switching devices. The method and system determine an on/off scheme for the switching devices in the first converter when one or more of the switching devices has failed in a shorted state, wherein the on/off scheme is dependent upon phase current direction through the first converter. The phase current direction is indirectly determined by sensing a pole voltage of the first converter and implementing the on/off scheme in the fault-tolerant mode when the pole voltage changes from zero to a +/?value indicating that the phase current through the first converter has switched direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.
    Inventors: Pushkar Chandrakant Chaudhari, Kapil Jha, Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Nathaniel Robert Michener
  • Publication number: 20240388091
    Abstract: A method for controlling an active harmonic filter of an inverter-based resource includes receiving, via a maximum compensation tracker module, a grid feedback signal, determining, via the maximum compensation tracker module, a phase shift signal based, at least in part, on the grid feedback signal, applying, via the maximum compensation tracker module, a phase shift offset signal to the phase shift signal to obtain a modified phase shift signal, determining, via the maximum compensation tracker module, a voltage reference signal for the active harmonic filter based, at least in part, on the grid feedback signal and the modified phase shift signal; and controlling, via the maximum compensation tracker module, the active harmonic filter using the voltage reference signal, wherein the phase shift offset signal ensures that the active harmonic filter injects a current substantially out of phase of a targeted harmonic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Pushkar Chandrakant Chaudhari, Kapil Jha, Robert Gregory Wagoner, Werner Gerhard Barton, Saurabh Shukla, Arvind Kumar Tiwari
  • Publication number: 20240223112
    Abstract: A method for operating a power supply system connected to a grid, the power supply system including a rotor, a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG), a power conversion assembly, and an active filter. The DFIG includes a generator rotor mechanically connected with the rotor and a generator stator. The power conversion assembly includes a rotor-side power converter. The active filter electrically connected with the generator stator via a stator bus and the rotor-side power converter electrically connected with the generator rotor via a rotor bus. Based on a rotor frequency of the generator rotor, the method determines an expected harmonic frequency for a stator current flowing on the stator bus. An amplitude of the stator current at the expected harmonic frequency is determined via a data set of stator current values. The method controls the active filter based on the amplitude of the stator current at the expected harmonic frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kapil Jha, Pushkar Chandrakant Chaudhari, Werner Gerhard Barton, Parag Rameshchandra Dharmadhikari, Prasun Mishra, Sonam Acharya
  • Publication number: 20230353039
    Abstract: A controller-implemented method and system for operating a multi-level bridge power converter connected to a power grid in a fault-tolerant operational mode, the power converter including a first converter coupled to a DC link, the first converter comprising a plurality of switching devices. The method and system determine an on/off scheme for the switching devices in the first converter when one or more of the switching devices has failed in a shorted state, wherein the on/off scheme is dependent upon phase current direction through the first converter. The phase current direction is indirectly determined by sensing a pole voltage of the first converter and implementing the on/off scheme in the fault-tolerant mode when the pole voltage changes from zero to a +/?value indicating that the phase current through the first converter has switched direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Pushkar Chandrakant Chaudhari, Kapil Jha, Fernando Arturo Ramirez Sanchez, Nathaniel Robert Michener