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US 9,071,190 B2Granted
Actuation control and control method, particularly for electrical disconnectors
AssigneeALSTOM Technology Ltd
InventorsVincenzo Girlando, Moreno Pivato, Eros Stella
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Abstract
An actuation control, for electrical disconnectors, including a device for driving the actuation motor of a movable element of an electrical disconnector, elements for detecting operating parameters of the disconnector, a device for processing the operating and control parameters of the driving device, elements for storing the operating parameters, which are connected to the processing and control device in order to receive from it and store the processed operating parameters, and interface elements of the actuation control, for its activation for opening or closing the disconnector.
Claims11
An actuation control for electrical disconnectors, comprising:
- a device for driving the actuation motor of a movable element of an electrical disconnector, adapted to execute a program for driving said movable element,
- means for detecting operating parameters of said disconnector,
- a device for processing said operating and control parameters of said driving device, to which it is connected in order to control it in emergency situations, according to an emergency driving program to be executed instead of a preset ordinary driving program, said emergency situations being defined by the acquisition, by at least one of said operating parameters, of values that exceed predefined threshold limits,
- said processing and control device being provided with a program suitable to identify a plurality of emergency situations, which correspond to the acquisition of the values beyond threshold limits by respective parameters among said operating parameters,
- means for storing said operating parameters, which are connected to said processing and control device in order to receive from it and store said processed operating parameters,
- interface means of said actuation control, for its activation for opening or closing said disconnector, and
- a memory that comprises a plurality of driving programs for preselection by the operator of said ordinary driving program chosen from said plurality of driving programs as a function of the type and of the operating conditions expected for the disconnector for the control of which said actuation control is installed and alternative emergency driving programs that are predefined on the basis of causes deemed, during programming of said processing and control device, to cause occurrence of the exceeding of said threshold limits,
- said operating parameters comprising at least
- first operating parameters for the operation of said movable element, which comprise at least the speed of motion of said movable element and its position between a closed disconnector position and an open disconnector position,
- second operating parameters for the operation of said motor, which comprise the intensity of the current absorbed by said motor and the trend of the voltage supplied to it,
- time parameters comprising the date and time of day, and
- environmental parameters,
- wherein
- said program provided in said processing and control device is adapted, in sequence, to:
- calculate the movement speed of said movable element,
- calculate the speed difference between the calculated movement speed and the motion speed defined by the driving program that the driving device is executing,
- compare the calculated speed difference with a threshold limit for the speed difference, and
- command the driving device to execute a first predefined emergency driving program instead of the driving program being executed if the value of the calculated speed difference exceeds the threshold limit for the speed difference.
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A method for actuation control for electrical disconnectors, comprising the steps of:
- detecting operating parameters of said disconnector,
- processing said operating parameters and, in emergency situations, controlling a driving device of said disconnector according to an emergency driving program to be executed instead of a preset ordinary driving program that said driving device otherwise executes, said emergency situations being defined by the acquisition, by at least one of said operating parameters, of values that exceed predefined threshold limits,
- storing said operating parameters, including any processed ones,
- programming a processing and control device of the actuation control to identify a plurality of emergency situations, which correspond to the acquisition of the values beyond said predefined threshold limits by respective parameters among said operating parameters,
- providing in a memory of the actuation control a plurality of driving programs for preselection by the operator of said ordinary driving program chosen from said plurality of driving programs as a function of the type and of the operating conditions of a disconnector for the control of which said actuation control is installed and alternative emergency driving programs that are predefined on the basis of causes deemed, during programming of said processing and control device, to cause occurrence of the exceeding of said threshold limits,
- said operating parameters comprising at least:
- first operating parameters for the operation of a movable element of said disconnector, comprising at least the speed of motion of said movable element and its position between a closed disconnector position and an open disconnector position,
- second operating parameters for the operation of the actuation motor of said movable element, comprising the intensity of the current absorbed by said motor (12) and the trend of the voltage supplied to it,
- time parameters comprising date and time of day, and
- environmental parameters,
- wherein:
- said emergency situations identification step comprises the step sequence for:
- calculating the movement speed of said movable element,
- calculating the speed difference between the calculated movement speed and the motion speed defined by the driving program that the driving device is executing, and
- comparing the calculated speed difference with a threshold limit for the speed difference,
- and in that
- said processing and control device is further programmed to command the driving device to execute a first predefined emergency driving program instead of the driving program being executed if the value of the calculated speed difference exceeds the threshold limit for the difference.
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