Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090309421 | POWER COMPENSATOR AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A BLACK START WITH THAT COMPENSATOR - A power compensator for an electric power transmission line. The power compensator includes a voltage source converter, a capacitor and an energy storage device. The energy storage device includes a high voltage battery having a short circuit failure mode, a first main switch and second main switch for disconnecting the battery from the capacitor, and a control unit for operating the first and second switch. | 12-17-2009 |
20090317694 | Temperature controller - A temperature controller for providing heat to an energy storage device of a power compensator. The energy storage device includes a plurality of high temperature battery units on high potential. The temperature controller includes a pipe network for housing a heat transfer medium. The pipe network includes a main pipe loop and a local pipe loop in each battery unit. Each local pipe loop includes a first end for receiving a heat transfer medium and a second end for exhausting the medium. | 12-24-2009 |
20100109323 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING ENERGY - A device for transforming thermal energy to electric energy including a magnetic circuit including at least a portion made of a magnetic material, a temperature-varying device for varying the temperature in the portion made of the magnetic material alternately above and below a phase transition temperature of the magnetic material to thereby vary the reluctance of the magnetic circuit, and a coil arranged around the magnetic circuit, in which electric energy is induced in response to a varying magnetic flux in the magnetic circuit. A capacitor is connected in parallel with the coil to thereby form a resonant circuit, wherein the resonance frequency of the resonant circuit and the frequency of the temperature variation above and below the phase transition temperature of the magnetic material are dependent on one another to optimize the electric power output. | 05-06-2010 |
20100109474 | THERMOMAGNETIC GENERATOR DEVICE AND ENERGY CONVERTING METHOD - A generator device for converting thermal energy to electric energy. A magnetic circuit includes at least a portion made of a magnetic material. A temperature-varying device varies the temperature in the portion made of the magnetic material alternately above and below a phase transition temperature of the magnetic material to thereby vary the reluctance of the magnetic circuit. A coil is arranged around the magnetic circuit, in which electric energy is induced in response to a varying magnetic flux in the magnetic circuit. A magnetic flux generator generates magnetic flux in the magnetic circuit. A controllable electric circuit device is connected to the coil and a control device controls the controllable electric circuit device. | 05-06-2010 |
20100117482 | VALVE APPARATUS - A rotating valve apparatus including a cylindrical casing, a shaft arranged symmetrically in the casing, a member fixedly attached to the shaft and in close fit with the cylindrical casing, defining separated chambers within the casing, at least one outlet fixedly arranged along the circumference of the casing and a plurality of axially arranged inlets, each of which is constantly in fluid communication with a respective one of the separated chambers. The axially arranged inlets are alternately in fluid connection with the outlet fixedly arranged along the circumference of the casing in response to rotation of the shaft and the member with respect to the casing. The member has an elliptically shaped cross section. | 05-13-2010 |
20100169033 | State Of Charge Determination - A method, device and computer program product for determining the state of charge of at least one battery as well as to a power compensator for an electric power transmission line including such a device. The device includes an internal states prediction unit and a state of charge determining unit. The internal states prediction unit makes an internal states prediction of a battery based on a model for the battery, where each internal state is related to the charge distribution in the battery, adjusts the internal states prediction with measured properties of the battery and applies the adjusted internal states prediction in the making of following internal state predictions. The state of charge determining unit provides the estimated state of charge (SOC) as a function of the predicted internal states. The invention allows the provision of improved state of charge estimates. | 07-01-2010 |
20100213906 | Induction Regulator for Power Flow Control in an AC Transmission Network - An induction regulator for controlling the voltage amplitude and/or phase angle of a polyphase electric transmission network connected between the primary side and the secondary side of the transmission network. The rotor is fixed in relation to the stator and the volume between stator and rotor includes a magnetic volume with a region including a controllable magnetic flux region of solid material that has a relative permeability that is controllable by changing its temperature. | 08-26-2010 |
20100253094 | COMBINED PUMP AND VALVE APPARATUS - A combined pump and valve apparatus including a cylindrical casing, a shaft arranged symmetrically in the casing, a device fixedly attached to the shaft and in close fit with the cylindrical casing, thereby defining separated chambers within the casing, a plurality of outlets/inlets arranged along the circumference of the casing, and a plurality of axially arranged inlets/outlets, each of which is fixedly connected to a respective one of the separated chambers. The axially arranged inlets/outlets are alternately in fluid connection with each of the outlets/inlets fixedly arranged along the circumference of the casing in response to rotation of the shaft and the device with respect to the casing. An impeller arrangement pumps a fluid through the combined pump and valve apparatus in response to the rotation of the shaft. | 10-07-2010 |
20110001592 | Method and Device for Controlling of a Magnetic Flux - A device for controlling a magnetic flux in an electromagnetic system, wherein the system includes magnetically connected magnetic cores, between which a volume is arranged. The volume includes a controllable magnetic flux region and the magnetic flux region includes a magnetic material having a relative permeability that may be varied by influencing the temperature of the material. The magnetic material includes a magnetic material, the Curie point of which lies within the temperature operating range of the device and exhibits paramagnetic properties within the temperature range. Also a method of controlling a magnetic flux. | 01-06-2011 |
20110057539 | GENERATOR DEVICE AND METHOD - A generator device for converting thermal energy to electric energy. A magnetic circuit includes at least a portion made of a magnetic material. A temperature-varying device varied the temperature in the portion made of the magnetic material alternately above and below a phase transition temperature of the magnetic material to thereby vary the reluctance of the magnetic circuit. A coil is arranged around the magnetic circuit, in which electric energy is induced in response to a varying magnetic flux in the magnetic circuit. A magnetic flux generator creates magnetic flux in the magnetic circuit. The temperature-varying device alternately passes hot and cold fluid by, or through holes in, the portion made of the magnetic material of the magnetic circuit in a single direction to thereby vary the temperature in the portion made of the magnetic material alternately above and below the phase transition temperature of the magnetic material. | 03-10-2011 |
20110089763 | Battery Energy Source Arrangement And Voltage Source Converter System - The invention relates to power networks, and in particular to a battery energy source arrangement and voltage source converter system in such network. The battery energy source arrangement includes battery energy storage, having one or more parallel-connected battery strings and a mechanism for connecting a voltage of the battery strings to a load. The battery energy source arrangement further includes battery string voltage adapter devices connected in series with respective ones of the one or more battery strings wherein the battery string voltage adapter devices are designed to handle only a fraction of the voltage handled by the battery strings. | 04-21-2011 |
20110089784 | HEAT EXCHANGER DEVICE - A heat exchanger device includes a body and at least one channel located in the body, through which a heat exchange fluid is adapted to be guided, thereby providing heat transfer per unit area between the heat exchange fluid and the material of the body, wherein the body has a material composition and/or dimensions such that the amount of heat transfer per unit area between the heat exchange fluid and the material of the body is essentially constant along the direction of the channel. | 04-21-2011 |
20110095647 | Valve Apparatus - A rotating valve apparatus includes a cylindrical casing; a shaft arranged symmetrically in the casing; a member fixedly attached to the shaft and in close fit with the cylindrical casing, defining separated chambers within the casing; at least one outlet fixedly arranged along the circumference of the casing; and a plurality of axially arranged inlets, each of which being constantly in fluid communication with a respective one of the separated chambers, wherein the axially arranged inlets are alternately in fluid connection with the outlet fixedly arranged along the circumference of the casing in response to rotation of the shaft and the member with respect to the casing. The outlet(s) has/have a fluid path length that varies along the circumference of the casing depending on the rotational speed of the shaft such that the interfaces between fluids originating from different ones of the axially arranged inlets will be essentially vertical to the flow direction of the fluids. | 04-28-2011 |
20110140529 | Battery Unit Arrangement For High Voltage Applications, Connector And Disconnector Arrangement And Method - A battery unit arrangement for high voltage applications. The battery unit arrangement includes a battery unit having a battery chassis, and a switching device. The switching device includes switching mechanism for switching the battery chassis between two positions, a first position connecting the battery chassis to a pole of the battery unit | 06-16-2011 |
20110204721 | Electricity Generation System - An electricity generation system having a low frequency alternating heat and cold distribution system provided for alternately distributing heat and cold at low frequency; a heat-electricity conversion system operatively connected to the low frequency alternating heat and cold distribution system and provided for generating electricity in response to the alternately distributed heat and cold; an electric power delivery system operatively connected to the heat-electricity conversion system and provided for distributing the generated electricity; and a process control system operatively connected to the low frequency alternating heat and cold distribution system, to the heat-electricity conversion system, and to the electric power delivery system in order to control the operations thereof, is provided. | 08-25-2011 |