Patents by Inventor Yunlong DONG

Yunlong DONG 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).

  • Publication number: 20200185901
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for suppressing the impact of a compensator on line distance protection is provided, wherein the method comprises: obtaining a first current of a line connected to a compensator or series converters in the compensator, and a first voltage of a bus connected to the compensator or the line connected to the compensator; exiting the series converters and series transformers if the first current is greater than a preset current threshold and a duration is greater than a first preset time threshold; exiting the series converters and the series transformers if the first voltage is less than or equal to a preset voltage threshold and duration is greater than a second preset time threshold set the output voltage of the series converters to zero, and if a second current of an element corresponding to the first current meets conditions which the first current needs to meet; and otherwise, canceling the setting of the output voltage of the series converters to zero and obtaining a first current if
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicants: NR Electric Co., Ltd., NR Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei PAN, Jie TIAN, Yunlong Dong, Yu LU, Ruhai HUANG, Chongxue JIANG, Jiang LU, Baoshun ZHANG, Defeng QIU, Hua XIE
  • Publication number: 20200076321
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter. By setting a half-controlled charging link of changing full bridge sub-modules from a blocked state to a half-blocked state one by one in a charging process, and raising the voltages of half bridge sub-modules to reach the starting point of a half bridge sub-module based self-powered supply in an uncontrolled stage of the half bridge sub-modules, the starting point of the sub-module based self-powered supply is increased, and the design difficulty of the sub-module based self-powered supply is reduced. The present invention also discloses another charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter. The above objective can also be achieved by setting a half-controlled charging link of changing the full bridge sub-modules from a blocked state to a bypassed state one by one in the charging process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jiudong DING, Yu LU, Yunlong DONG, Haiying LI, Jie TIAN, Defeng QIU, Tiangui JIANG, Jianyang LIAN
  • Patent number: 10523131
    Abstract: A reconfigurable MMC sub-module unit and a control unit thereof are provided, the reconfigurable MMC sub-module unit is mainly formed by an MMC sub-module unit and a reconfigurable mechanism, wherein the reconfigurable mechanism is formed by switches, and the conversion of MMC sub-module unit topology is achieved through switching on and off the switches in the reconfigurable mechanism. According to the reconfigurable MMC sub-module unit and the control unit thereof, the rapid change of a topology structure for a converter can be achieved, which is suitable for the demand of the line connection of the medium-voltage power distribution network and variable topologies, and meets requirements of dynamic simulation experiment for different converter topologies in the dynamic simulation experiment, thereby reducing construction costs and duration, improving experiment efficiency, and having high flexibility and strong versatility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Gang Li, Jianchun Li, Jie Tian, Haiying Li, Yu Lu, Yunlong Dong, Zhaoqing Hu, Minglian Zhu
  • Patent number: 10483788
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter. By setting a half-controlled charging link of half-blocking all full bridge sub-modules in a charging process, and raising the voltages of half bridge sub-modules to reach the starting point of a half bridge sub-module based self-powered supply in an uncontrolled stage of the half bridge sub-modules, the starting point of the sub-module based self-powered supply is increased, and the design difficulty of the sub-module based self-powered supply is reduced. The present invention also discloses another charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter. The above objective can also be achieved by setting a half-controlled charging link of bypassing all full bridge sub-modules in the charging process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jiudong Ding, Yu Lu, Yunlong Dong, Haiying Li, Jie Tian, Defeng Qiu, Tiangui Jiang, Jianyang Lian
  • Patent number: 10476261
    Abstract: A method for fault positioning and recovery of a voltage source converter includes following steps. Locking a converter station when it is detected that an alternating-current voltage contains a zero sequence voltage or a direct-current voltage contains an unbalanced voltage. Positioning a fault by continuing to detect the zero sequence voltage of an alternating-current side of the converter. Recovering operation of each station after the fault is positioned. The method for fault positioning and recovery is simple, practical, has high reliability, and can effectively detect the problems that each station contains a zero sequence voltage of an alternating-current side and cannot easily position a fault caused due to transmission of the zero sequence voltage of the alternating-current side to an opposite-side alternating-current system via a voltage source converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Gang Li, Yu Lu, Zhaoqing Hu, Jie Tian, Yunlong Dong, Tiangui Jiang, Haiying Li, Yadong Feng, Ke Wang, Jiang Lu, Shunke Sui, Hui Wang, Nannan Wang
  • Publication number: 20190341777
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention is a direct current power grid voltage control method, dividing control of a direct current power grid voltage into three processes, namely natural voltage regulation, first voltage regulation and second voltage regulation; the converter stations in the direct current power grid are divided into three types, namely power regulation converter stations, auxiliary voltage regulation converter stations, and voltage regulation converter stations, on the basis of whether the converter station has a voltage regulation capacity, the power regulation converter stations operating in a fixed power control mode, the voltage regulation converter stations operating in a fixed voltage control mode or an auxiliary voltage control mode, and the auxiliary voltage control converter stations operating in the auxiliary voltage control mode; all the converter stations in the direct current power grid participate in natural voltage regulation, the auxiliary voltage regulation converter stations and
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jiudong DING, Yu LU, Yunlong DONG, Gang LI, Zhaoqing HU
  • Patent number: 10461525
    Abstract: A fault current limiting control and protection coordination method for a converter of a flexible direct current transmission system operating in an islanding state is provided. The current output command limit Imax is used to limit the current commands of inner loop currents, and in the event of a fault, Imax is set equal to or slightly larger than a value for an AC line overcurrent protection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhaoqing Hu, Yunlong Dong, Ke Wang, Haiying Li, Dongming Cao
  • Patent number: 10461534
    Abstract: A starting and stopping method for a static synchronous series compensator (SSSC) is provided. A starting process includes: connecting a converter to a shunt transformer, and closing a breaker which connect the AC system and the shunt transformer to charge the converter until the DC voltage is stable; opening the breaker, and connecting the converter to a series transformer through a change-over switch; and deblocking the converter, and controlling a current of a bypass switch of the series transformer to approach zero. A stopping process includes: switching a control mode of the converter to make the current of the bypass switch approaches zero when closed the bypass switch, then controlling a current of the series transformer to be gradually reduced to zero to make the series transformer out of service, and blocking the converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Lei Pan, Jie Tian, Quanrong Shen, Xinbao Wang, Yu Lu, Yunlong Dong, Baoli Chang
  • Publication number: 20190326770
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter. By setting a half-controlled charging link of half-blocking all full bridge sub-modules in a charging process, and raising the voltages of half bridge sub-modules to reach the starting point of a half bridge sub-module based self-powered supply in an uncontrolled stage of the half bridge sub-modules, the starting point of the sub-module based self-powered supply is increased, and the design difficulty of the sub-module based self-powered supply is reduced. The present invention also discloses another charging method for a sub-module based hybrid converter. The above objective can also be achieved by setting a half-controlled charging link of bypassing all full bridge sub-modules in the charging process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jiudong DING, Yu LU, Yunlong DONG, Haiying LI, Jie TIAN, Defeng QIU, Tiangui JIANG, Jianyang LIAN
  • Patent number: 10418816
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a passive islanding to grid-connection switching method for a VSC HVDC transmission system. When the VSC HVDC transmission system in an island operation state, whether the VSC HVDC transmission system enters an grid-connection state is determined by detecting whether an overcurrent phenomenon has occurred in a converter valve-side three-phase alternating-current or a converter bridge arm current, and detecting a change status of an alternating-current side voltage. The system is controlled to switch from an island operation control mode to a grid-connection control mode. At a moment of switching, the online control mode is smoothly switched to by changing a power instruction and performing phase tracking on a current grid voltage, so that continuous operation of the system is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: NR Electric Co., Ltd., NR Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunlong Dong, Jie Tian, Zhaoqing Hu, Haiying Li, Dongming Cao, Haibin Liu, Yu Lu
  • Patent number: 10396561
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a coordination control method of a multi-terminal VSC-HVDC transmission system. If a direct current voltage master control station shuts down, a direct current voltage control slave station takes over direct current voltage control, and remaining convertor stations keep original control modes. The takeover steps comprise that under the condition that inter-station communications are effective, the master control station sends a shutdown message to the slave station through the inter-station communications, and when the slave station monitors that the direct current voltage master control station shuts down, the slave station switches a current control mode into a direct current voltage control mode; and under the condition that inter-station communications fail or inter-station communications are absent, the slave station monitors changes of the direct current voltage of a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yunlong Dong, Jie Tian, Gang Li, Dongming Cao, Haiying Li, Haibin Liu
  • Patent number: 10396562
    Abstract: A series compensation device suitable to double-circuit lines is disclosed. The device includes one series transformer and one converter. One converter and dual-circuit transmission lines are respectively connected to three windings of one series transformer. In the solution provided in the present application, the device can be independently installed in a power transmission system to be used as a static synchronous series compensator, and can also be used as a component of a unified power flow controller, a convertible static compensator, an interline power flow controller and a unified power quality conditioner to be connected to a power transmission system device in series. The device can save the capacity of a converter, improve the application efficiency of the series compensation device, and reduce the cost and area occupation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ruhai Huang, Yu Lu, Yunlong Dong, Lei Pan, Defeng Qiu, Chongxue Jiang, Jiang Lu, Gang Li, Zhaoqing Hu, Nannan Wang, Jiudong Ding, Ke Wang, Xianlai Hu, Hui Wang, Shunke Sui
  • Publication number: 20190260201
    Abstract: A fault current limiting control and protection coordination method for a converter of a flexible direct current transmission system operating in an islanding state, wherein the current output command limit Imax is used to limit the current commands I*Ldq of inner loop dq currents, and in the event of the fault of AC system, Imax is set equal to or slightly larger than a value for an AC line overcurrent protection section III. The value for the II section of the converter bridge arm overcurrent protection is smaller than the value for the II section of the AC line overcurrent protection or the value is equal; the set value for AC line overcurrent protection section I is smaller than the set value for converter bridge arm overcurrent protection section I; the value for proximal AC line overcurrent protection section II is less than or equal to the value for converter bridge arm overcurrent protection section II, and under such condition, the delay is longer than the AC line overcurrent protection section II.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhaoqing HU, Yunlong DONG, Ke WANG, Haiying LI, Dongming CAO
  • Publication number: 20190252885
    Abstract: Provided is an on-line input and quit control method for a voltage-source converter unit. The method achieves the on-line input of a voltage-source converter unit by means of performing steps, such as charging control, deblocking transfer control and operation adjustment control, on a voltage-source converter to be input, and achieves the on-line quitting of the voltage-source converter unit by means of performing steps, such as direct-current voltage reduction control, bypass transfer control and converter blocking control, on a voltage-source converter to be quit. Correspondingly, provided is an on-line input and quit control device for a voltage-source converter unit, which can achieve the on-line steady input and quitting of a voltage-source converter in a series-type hybrid direct-current power transmission system or a series-type flexible direct-current power transmission system, without affecting the normal and stable operation of other already running converters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Jiang Lu, Yu Lu, Yunlong Dong, Nannan Wang, Yongping Wang, Wenqiang Zhao, Jie Tian, Haiying Li
  • Patent number: 10326275
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a zero sequence voltage of a voltage source converter. When an alternating current system ground fault occurs, a zero sequence voltage at an alternating current (AC) side or a zero sequence voltage at a direct current (DC) side of a converter is detected. If the detected zero sequence voltage is greater than a set value V0ref, a DC side voltage of the converter can be increased to a set value Udc0, thereby generating an appropriate reference wave at the AC side of the converter to match an AC voltage, and accordingly controlling overmodulation of a reference wave at a faulty station to suppress fluctuation of a DC voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ke Wang, Gang Li, Yu Lu, Yunlong Dong, Jiang Lu, Zhaoqing Hu, Tiangui Jiang
  • Publication number: 20190173392
    Abstract: A reconfigurable MMC sub-module unit and a control unit thereof are provided, the reconfigurable MMC sub-module unit is mainly formed by an MMC sub-module unit and a reconfigurable mechanism, wherein the reconfigurable mechanism is formed by switches, and the conversion of MMC sub-module unit topology is achieved through switching on and off the switches in the reconfigurable mechanism. According to the reconfigurable MMC sub-module unit and the control unit thereof, the rapid change of a topology structure for a converter can be achieved, which is suitable for the demand of the line connection of the medium-voltage power distribution network and variable topologies, and meets requirements of dynamic simulation experiment for different converter topologies in the dynamic simulation experiment, thereby reducing construction costs and duration, improving experiment efficiency, and having high flexibility and strong versatility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Gang LI, Jianchun LI, Jie TIAN, Haiying LI, Yu LU, Yunlong DONG, Zhaoqing HU, Minglian ZHU
  • Publication number: 20190157871
    Abstract: A series compensation device suitable to double-circuit lines is disclosed. The device includes one series transformer and one converter. One converter and dual-circuit transmission lines are respectively connected to three windings of one series transformer. In the solution provided in the present application, the device can be independently installed in a power transmission system to be used as a static synchronous series compensator, and can also be used as a component of a unified power flow controller, a convertible static compensator, an interline power flow controller and a unified power quality conditioner to be connected to a power transmission system device in series. The device can save the capacity of a converter, improve the application efficiency of the series compensation device, and reduce the cost and area occupation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicants: NR Electric Co., Ltd, NR Engineering Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ruhai HUANG, Yu LU, Yunlong DONG, Lei PAN, Defeng QIU, Chongxue JIANG, Jiang LU, Gang LI, Zhaoqing HU, Nannan WANG, Jiudong DING, Ke WANG, Xianlai HU, Hui WANG, Shunke SUI
  • Publication number: 20190140441
    Abstract: A method for fault positioning and recovery of a voltage source converter includes following steps. Locking a converter station when it is detected that an alternating-current voltage contains a zero sequence voltage or a direct-current voltage contains an unbalanced voltage. Positioning a fault by continuing to detect the zero sequence voltage of an alternating-current side of the converter. Recovering operation of each station after the fault is positioned. The method for fault positioning and recovery is simple, practical, has high reliability, and can effectively detect the problems that each station contains a zero sequence voltage of an alternating-current side and cannot easily position a fault caused due to transmission of the zero sequence voltage of the alternating-current side to an opposite-side alternating-current system via a voltage source converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Gang LI, Yu LU, Zhaoqing HU, Jie TIAN, Yunlong DONG, Tiangui JIANG, Haiying LI, Yadong FENG, Ke WANG, Jiang LU, Shunke SUI, Hui WANG, Nannan WANG
  • Patent number: 10283965
    Abstract: A method for incorporating a non-operating station into an operating system in a multi-terminal flexible DC transmission system. The method includes selecting a STATCOM operation mode for the non-operating station; opening a bypass switch at an AC side and connecting a charging resistor to an AC line; closing the AC incoming-line breaker, and pre-charging a converter valve of the non-operating station through the resistor; closing the bypass switch after the pre-charging; selecting a constant-DC voltage control mode for the non-operating station to perform deblocking; controlling the difference between a non-operating station DC voltage value and an operating system direct voltage value to be within an allowable range; closing the pole-connection device at the DC side of a converter of the non-operating station; and switching the non-operating station from the STATCOM operation mode to a DC operation mode, and incorporating the non-operating station into the operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yunlong Dong, Gang Li, Jie Tian, Nannan Wang, Chao Liu
  • Patent number: 10270332
    Abstract: According to the overload current limiting method for a voltage source converter, when a pole control system receives a water-cooling overload current limiting instruction, an active and reactive instruction are changed at the same time according to a specified slope, so that an absolute value of an arm current of the converter decreases in a fixed slope, and can be ensured that active power and reactive power fall to zero at the same time, and a water-cooling load limiting aim of the converter can be achieved by reducing the arm current. After a water-cooling overload power limiting instruction received by the pole control system is cancelled, a current value of the active power and the inactive power remain unchanged. When a water-cooling overload power limiting instruction is received again, decrease continues on the basis of current power values until the power falls to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhaoqing Hu, Yunlong Dong, Yu Lu, Haiying Li, Dongming Cao