Patent GB-1276902-A (GB)
Title: Control system for static electrical converters
Inventor: LISS GOTE
IPC: H02M1/08
Filed: 1969-10-08
Abstract: 1276902 Static converter control systems ALLMANNA SVENSKA ELEKTRISKA AB 8 Oct 1969 [9 Oct 1968] 43949/69 Heading H2F In a control system for a static converter and comprising a pulse generator which emits control pulses depending upon its input signal, which is the sum of a D.C. magnitude and an A.C. magnitude in the form of a control function derived from an A.C. system connected to the converter-there is provided correction means 12 (Fig. 1) to secure equidistant intervals between consecutive control pulses irrespective of any assymmetry in the A.C. system. The correction means includes means to measure the actual interval between consecutive pulses, means deriving a desired value for said intervals i.e. T¸p where T is the rated period of the A.C. system and p is the pulse number of the converter, means deriving the difference between actual and desired interval values, a memory circuit for each value of the converter to store said interval differences, and a switching means to connect the difference values as a correction magnitude to the input side of the control pulse generator. Control system-general.-In the converter (Fig. 1) a pulse generator 4 has three voltage sources 5, 6, 7 producing voltages U 5 , U 6 , U 7  (Fig. 2). The source 6 is connected to the A.C. system to obtain commutation voltages U K  of the three valves and phase shifts these voltages through 90 degrees to give the said control function voltages U 6 . The source 7 provides D.C. bias voltage and determines the maximum delay angle α. The source 5 is a control amplifier the inputs of whicy are-desired converter current, as set on potentiometer 11, and actual D.C. bus-bar current, as sensed by transductor 8. Under symmetrical operation, when the sum of voltages U 5 , U 6 , U 7  (Fig. 2) passes zero at angle α the pulse generator emits a firing pulse. Under asymmetrical ignition conditions correction magnitudes U 12  are formed by the correction means 12, and in correct sequence are connected in series with voltages U 5 U 6 U 7  resulting in a correction #α of the delay angle as shown in Fig. 2. As the delay of the ignition moment of a valve causes deviation in the intervals between the said valve, the previously ignited valve and the subsequently ignited valve, interconnections are inserted between the memory circuits of the different valves so that the correction magnitude for a valve also influences the ignition moments of the following valve or valves. Thereby the ignition moment is corrected only for that valve the ignition moment of which has been displaced. Correction circuit (Fig. 4).-Rectangular pulses from generator 4 are sensed and fed to an OR gate 42 via time derivative members 43 and a correction magnitude is fed into the pulse generator from terminal 14. At the beginning of each firing pulse multivibrator units 46 and 24 are operated by OR gate 42 and the units control relays 18, 21 and 23. Unit 46 operates relay 18 to apply positive input to amplifier 15 whereby due to diode 41 the amplifier is short circuited. The amplifier 15 produces a sawtooth output voltage the instantaneous values of which correspond to the time since the latest valve ignition. With equidistant ignition the sawtooth amplitudes correspond to T/p. When ignition displacement occurs the peak amplitudes will be greater or less than T/p. The output of 15 is fed together with desired value signal T/p set up on a potentiometer 20, to a summator 19 which produces an output representing the difference between the time since the last ignition and T/p, which output is fed to an amplifier 22. The m.v. unit 24 operates the relay 21 to break connection between amplifiers 15 and 22 and the difference signal from summator 19 is stored in the feedback capacitor of amplifier 22. Thus the output of 22 contains from period to period the deviation of the previous ignition interval from the desired value.  These deviations are stored in the memory circuits including amplifiers 31, 32, 33 which (corresponding to the respective valves 101, 102, 103) are successively connected in synchronism with the control pulses to amplifier 22 by relays 25-27 controlled by AND gates 28 to 30. The AND gates have inputs from m.v. 24 and from the pulse generator outputs at 131<SP>1</SP>, 132<SP>1</SP>, 1331. Relays 34 to 36 also synchronized with the control pulses transmit the correction signals to amplifier 37 and thence to terminal 14 and the input to the pulse generator. A voltage divider 50, 51 sets the upper limit of correction. Since the sum of the corrections for the three control pulses must always be zero the output of amplifiers 31, 32, 33 are fed back to their inputs via a summator 38. Thus a common +ve or - ve sum correction will be inserted for all three amplifiers forcing the summing correction to zero as a +ve or -ve sum correction involves displacement of the control pulses in one or other direction.