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US 12,410,532 B2Granted
Impedance monitoring of a modular electrolysis system
AssigneeOhmium International, Inc.
InventorsRamesh Srinivasan, Anil Kumar Adapa, Arne Ballantine, Zachary Burpee
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Abstract
An alternating current (AC) impedance spectroscopy method includes providing an AC impedance spectroscopy ripple from power electronics into an electrochemical device, and absorbing the ripple in the power electronics.
Claims9
An alternating current (AC) impedance spectroscopy system, comprising:
- a power factor corrected (PFC) rectifier electrically connectable to an AC power source via an AC split bus and to a direct current DC/DC converter via a first DC bus, wherein the PFC rectifier includes:
- a plurality of electric power inverters electrically connectable to respective AC busses of the AC split bus;
- a first capacitor and a second capacitor electrically connected in parallel to the plurality of electric power inverters via a middle DC bus at a DC-link midpoint;
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- an auxiliary electric power converter electrically connected to the DC-link midpoint via the middle DC bus and electrically connectable to the direct current DC/DC converter via the first DC bus, the auxiliary electric power converter configured to draw a reactive power amount from the DC-link to cancel a ripple current drawn by the DC/DC converter and comprising:
- a third capacitor electrically connected in parallel to the first capacitor and a fourth capacitor electrically connected in parallel to the second capacitor;
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- a filtering inductor electrically connected to the third capacitor and the fourth capacitor in parallel, wherein current from the DC-link midpoint is alternately and controllably drawn through the filtering inductor or the third capacitor and the fourth capacitor.
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