A current measurement device for measuring a current through a primary conductor is provided. The current measurement device comprises a current transducer of the Rogowski type, the current transducer comprising a conductor winding connected to a pair of transducer terminals and adapted to induce there between a measurement voltage indicative of a current through the primary conductor; a pair of calibration terminals adapted for providing a calibration current to a calibration current path conforming to the primary conductor, so that the calibration current induces a calibration response voltage component between the pair of transducer terminals; and a control circuit. The control circuit comprises a calibration current generator for generating the calibration current and connected to the pair of calibration terminals for providing the calibration current via the pair of calibration terminals to the calibration current path, and a voltage analyzer connected to the pair of transducer terminals for receiving the calibration response voltage component induced between the pair of transducer terminals.
G01R 15/18 - Adaptations fournissant une isolation en tension ou en courant, p. ex. adaptations pour les réseaux à haute tension ou à courant fort utilisant des dispositifs inductifs, p. ex. des transformateurs
G01R 35/00 - Test ou étalonnage des appareils couverts par les autres groupes de la présente sous-classe
G01R 19/00 - Dispositions pour procéder aux mesures de courant ou de tension ou pour en indiquer l'existence ou le signe
A dental prophylaxis and air appliance having a pressurized air source, a hand piece, and a manually actuated slurry container containing a mixture of dry or wetted abrasive and non-abrasive components. The compressed air is delivered to the hand piece by a line that combines the compressed air with the components and discharges the post-mixed water slurry of abrasive or non-abrasive components. The hand piece is configured to include a series of valves adapted to define one or more stages for containing components and encourage mixing thereof during operation.
The present invention relates to a method of optical measurement of parameters of a froth flotation substance (10) involved in a froth flotation process, the froth flotation substance (10) with collector molecules, the method comprising the steps of: adding in a predetermined amount indicator molecules to the froth flotation substance (10), wherein the indicator molecules are adapted for specifically binding to the collector molecules, said binding involving a detectable change of an optical absorption spectrum of said indicator molecules; hereinafter measuring by means of measurement light said optical absorption spectrum; and hereinafter determining from the measured part of the optical absorption spectrum of said indicator molecules an amount or a concentration of residual collector molecules in the froth flotation substance (10). Moreover, the invention relates to the froth flotation substance (10) itself, to a system (1) for executing said method, and to a use of the method and the system for controlling the froth flotation process, e.g., by addition of collector molecules to the froth flotation substance (10).
B03D 1/02 - Procédés de flottation par formation d'écume
G01N 21/75 - Systèmes dans lesquels le matériau est soumis à une réaction chimique, le progrès ou le résultat de la réaction étant analysé
G01N 21/25 - CouleurPropriétés spectrales, c.-à-d. comparaison de l'effet du matériau sur la lumière pour plusieurs longueurs d'ondes ou plusieurs bandes de longueurs d'ondes différentes
G01N 21/27 - CouleurPropriétés spectrales, c.-à-d. comparaison de l'effet du matériau sur la lumière pour plusieurs longueurs d'ondes ou plusieurs bandes de longueurs d'ondes différentes en utilisant la détection photo-électrique
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AGGREGATING GAMIFICATION DATA IN A WORK ENVIRONMENT
The present invention is concerned with enterprise gamification and relates to a method of optimizing operation of a work environment with multiple roles comprising each a number of scoring tasks. The invention proposes mapping of application gamification scores across different job roles within a work environment by means of suitable weighting or calibration factors. This renders comparable the scores of enterprise employees having different job roles and ultimately enables organization-wide gamification.
G06Q 10/06 - Ressources, gestion de tâches, des ressources humaines ou de projetsPlanification d’entreprise ou d’organisationModélisation d’entreprise ou d’organisation
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Method and apparatus for obtaining electricity from offshore wind turbines
According to one aspect of the teachings herein, a system for obtaining electricity from wind turbines provides advantageous operation with respect to offshore wind turbines where the size and weight of electricity generation and collection equipment are key considerations. The contemplated system includes an apparatus that is configured for collecting wind-generated electricity at a fixed low frequency and at a desired collection voltage, based on the advantageous configuration and use of a modular multilevel converter or MMC.
H02M 5/22 - Transformation d'une puissance d'entrée en courant alternatif en une puissance de sortie en courant alternatif, p. ex. pour changement de la tension, pour changement de la fréquence, pour changement du nombre de phases sans transformation intermédiaire en courant continu par convertisseurs statiques utilisant des tubes à décharge avec électrode de commande ou des dispositifs à semi-conducteurs avec électrode de commande
H02J 3/38 - Dispositions pour l’alimentation en parallèle d’un seul réseau, par plusieurs générateurs, convertisseurs ou transformateurs
H02J 3/34 - Dispositions pour le transfert de puissance électrique entre réseaux de fréquences très différentes
F03D 9/25 - Mécanismes moteurs à vent caractérisés par l’appareil entrainé l’appareil étant un générateur électrique
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ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION TRANSPARENT POLYMER MOULD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME
The present invention relates to a mould comprising an electromagnetic radiation transparent polymer resin and to a method for manufacturing a mould for moulding electrical devices from electromagnetic radiation curable polymer compositions. Further, the present invention refers to a process for producing electrical devices as well as to the use of the claimed mould to over mould electrical devices for low-, medium- and high voltage components with insulating material.
In one aspect of the teachings herein, a control apparatus (30) and corresponding control method use per-unit filtering in a plurality of power-sharing controllers (32 1-n), to obtain a power-sharing command signal for respective ones among a plurality of different energy storage units (22 1-n) in a hybrid energy storage system. The hybrid energy storage system includes two or more types of energy storage units and the power-sharing command signal for each energy storage unit is obtained by filtering an input signal using a filter having a filter response that is tailored to the energy storage characteristics of the energy storage unit. The input signal reflects load variations on the electrical grid (10) and may be locally generated or provided by a remote node. While the power-sharing control loops used for each energy storage unit advantageously may be the same in terms of architecture and implementation, each such loop uses tailored, dedicated filtering and, possibly, individualized values of one or more other control parameters, so that each energy storage unit is operated in a manner that complements its energy storage characteristics.
H02J 1/10 - Fonctionnement de sources à courant continu en parallèle
H02J 1/14 - Équilibrage de la charge dans un réseau
H02J 3/32 - Dispositions pour l'équilibrage de charge dans un réseau par emmagasinage d'énergie utilisant des batteries avec moyens de conversion
H02J 3/46 - Dispositions pour l’alimentation en parallèle d’un seul réseau, par plusieurs générateurs, convertisseurs ou transformateurs contrôlant la répartition de puissance entre les générateurs, convertisseurs ou transformateurs
H02J 7/34 - Fonctionnement en parallèle, dans des réseaux, de batteries avec d'autres sources à courant continu, p. ex. batterie tampon
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MINIMUM COST FLOW BASED OPTIMAL SCHEDULING AND PRODUCTION PLANNING
A computer implemented method and system for minimum cost flow based optimal scheduling and planning is provided that includes proving a P&ID of a plant to a front end module that contains a library of source, sink and storage nodes and flow connectors to configure the P&ID network using a graphical user interface as a graphical or tree representation based on the optimization task or problem. The P&ID network thus created generates a corresponding mathematical programming script at the back end that is received by an optimization solver to generate an optimal schedule that is displayed on the graphical user interface.
G06Q 10/06 - Ressources, gestion de tâches, des ressources humaines ou de projetsPlanification d’entreprise ou d’organisationModélisation d’entreprise ou d’organisation
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURITY CONSTRAINED ECONOMIC DISPATCH IN HYBRID POWER SYSTEMS
A method and an apparatus for Security Constrained Economic Dispatch SCED calculating for a hybrid power system (10) that includes one or more AC grids (12) and one or more multi-terminal High Voltage DC HVDC grids (14). Included are optimizing a non-linear objective function, subject to a set of constraints that include AC and DC grid constraints, for determining the SCED solution using successive linear approximation. The linear programming model used in the linear approximations is advantageously augmented with a DC grid (12) portion in a manner that accounts for the effects of the DC grid (14) on the AC grid (12), and which conforms the resultant SCED solution to all applicable AC and DC grid constraints, including AC grid line flow constraints, AC grid power balance constraints, DC grid line flow constraints, and DC grid power balance constraints.
The present invention relates to an anhydride-free curable epoxy resin composition for use as high voltage (HV) insulation, to an anhydride-free curable epoxy resin mica composite or an anhydride-free curable epoxy resin cellulose composite comprising the same, to an insulating material obtained by curing the anhydride-free curable epoxy resin composition, the anhydride-free curable epoxy resin mica composite or the anhydride-free curable epoxy resin cellulose composite as well as to a process for producing the same.
H01B 3/40 - Isolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques matières plastiquesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques résinesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques cires résines époxy
H02K 3/30 - Enroulements caractérisés par leur matériau d'isolement
H02K 3/40 - Enroulements caractérisés par la configuration, la forme ou la réalisation de l'isolement pour hautes tensions, p. ex. assurant une protection contre les effluves
C08L 63/00 - Compositions contenant des résines époxyCompositions contenant des dérivés des résines époxy
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WEIGHT BASED VISUAL COMMUNICATION OF ITEMS REPRESENTING PROCESS CONTROL OBJECTS IN A PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM
The invention relates to a method, item communication arrangement and a computer program product for communicating items (I1, I2, I3, I4, I5, I6, I7, I8, I9, I10) representing process control objects to a user of a wireless terminal (32) in a process control system. The arrangement comprises an item communication control unit providing said items representing process control objects and configured to continuously determine weights of the items (I1, I2, I3, I4, I5, I6, I7, I8, I9, I10) and visually communicate items (I1, I2, I3, I4, I5) to the user via the wireless terminal (32) in an order defined by the weights of the items, wherein the weight of an item is determined based on an item selection pattern of the user.
H04L 29/08 - Procédure de commande de la transmission, p.ex. procédure de commande du niveau de la liaison
G05B 19/042 - Commande à programme autre que la commande numérique, c.-à-d. dans des automatismes à séquence ou dans des automates à logique utilisant des processeurs numériques
H04W 4/00 - Services spécialement adaptés aux réseaux de télécommunications sans filLeurs installations
H04W 4/18 - Conversion de format ou de contenu d'informations, p. ex. adaptation, par le réseau, des informations reçues ou transmises pour une distribution sans fil aux utilisateurs ou aux terminaux
A turbine generator system includes a doubly-fed alternating-current (AC) generator having a first poly-phase circuit (e.g., a stator circuit) and a second poly-phase circuit (e.g., a rotor circuit), a poly-phase AC-to-AC converter circuit coupled between the first and second poly-phase circuits, a poly-phase transformer having input windings coupled to the first poly-phase circuit and having output windings, and a uni-directional rectifier circuit coupled to the output windings of the poly-phase transformer and configured to convert poly-phase AC from the transformer output windings to direct current (DC).
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (France)
Inventeur(s)
Pascal, Joris
Kammerer, Jean-Baptiste
Paulus, Simon
Abrégé
A current measurement device (1) for measuring a current through a primary conductor (2) is provided. The current measurement device comprises a current transducer (10) of the Rogowski type, the current transducer comprising a conductor winding (12) connected to a pair of transducer terminals (14) and adapted to induce there between a measurement voltage indicative of a current through the primary conductor (2); a pair of calibration terminals (24) adapted for providing a calibration current to a calibration current path (22) conforming to the primary conductor (2), so that the calibration current induces a calibration response voltage component between the pair of transducer terminals (14); and a control circuit (30). The control circuit (30) comprises a calibration current generator (34) for generating the calibration current and connected to the pair of calibration terminals (24) for providing the calibration current via the pair of calibration terminals (24) to the calibration current path (22), and a voltage analyzer (32) connected to the pair of transducer terminals (14) for receiving the calibration response voltage component induced between the pair of transducer terminals (14).
G01R 15/18 - Adaptations fournissant une isolation en tension ou en courant, p. ex. adaptations pour les réseaux à haute tension ou à courant fort utilisant des dispositifs inductifs, p. ex. des transformateurs
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TRANSMITTING DATA PACKETS IN AN INDUSTRIAL WIRELESS NETWORK
A wireless communication device providing a node (30) in an industrial wireless network (WN) investigates if there is more than one data packet with process control data from the same data originating device destined for a process control device (16) in a transmission queue, where the data originating device is an interface to the process being controlled and transmits data packets in the transmission queue. If there is more than one such data packet, the wireless communication device further compares time stamps of the data packets, where a time stamp reflects the time of generation of a corresponding data packet, keeps the newest data packet and discards older data packets, so that only the most recent data packets from a data originating device are sent to the process control device from the node.
The present invention is concerned with a system for transmitting and/or receiving the control and sensing signals between the control units and the power electronic components. The system according to the present invention comprises: a transceiver (21, 31) adapted to modulate the communication signal on a communication signal frequency band, and a coupler (20) connected to the power conductor (130) and adapted to couple the modulated communication signal to the power conductor. The present invention also concerns a method for transmitting and receiving the control and sensing signals.
H03K 17/605 - Commutation ou ouverture de porte électronique, c.-à-d. par d'autres moyens que la fermeture et l'ouverture de contacts caractérisée par l'utilisation de composants spécifiés par l'utilisation, comme éléments actifs, de dispositifs à semi-conducteurs les dispositifs étant des transistors bipolaires avec une isolation galvanique entre le circuit de commande et le circuit de sortie
H03K 17/61 - Commutation ou ouverture de porte électronique, c.-à-d. par d'autres moyens que la fermeture et l'ouverture de contacts caractérisée par l'utilisation de composants spécifiés par l'utilisation, comme éléments actifs, de dispositifs à semi-conducteurs les dispositifs étant des transistors bipolaires avec une isolation galvanique entre le circuit de commande et le circuit de sortie utilisant un couplage par transformateur
H04B 3/56 - Circuits de couplage, blocage ou dérivation des signaux
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ADAPTIVE PROTECTION FOR DISTRIBUTION GRID BASED ON AREA CONCEPT
The present invention provides a method of protecting a distribution network with a line (30) interconnecting busbars (11,21), each busbar being connectable, by means of switching devices (40) adjacent to the busbar, to the line and to loads (31) and/or generators (32). The method divides the distribution network in multiple protection areas (10, 20), each comprises a busbar, a protection device and an area controller (12, 22). Upon a change in connect status of a distribution feeder line, load or generator connectable to one of the busbar, the logic controller in this protection area re-calculates the short circuit level of the areas. Based on the recalculated short circuit levels, the protection settings of the areas may be adapted. The present invention also provide a system adapted to perform the steps of the method.
H02H 3/00 - Circuits de protection de sécurité pour déconnexion automatique due directement à un changement indésirable des conditions électriques normales de travail avec ou sans reconnexion
H02H 7/28 - Protection sectionnelle de systèmes de câbles ou de lignes, p. ex. pour déconnecter une section dans laquelle un court-circuit, un défaut à la terre, ou une décharge d'arc se sont produits pour réseaux maillés
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MICROGRID ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A MICROGRID
A microgrid includes a plurality of distributed energy resources such as controllable distributed electric generators (104, 106, 108, 110, 112) and electrical energy storage devices (114). A method of controlling operation of the microgrid includes periodically updating a distributed energy resource schedule for the microgrid that includes on/off status of the controllable distributed electric generators (104, 106, 108, 110, 112) and charging/discharging status and rate of the electrical energy storage devices (114) and which satisfies a first control objective for a defined time window, based at least in part on a renewable energy generation and load forecast for the microgrid (200). The method further includes periodically determining power set points for the controllable distributed energy resources (104, 106, 108, 110, 112) which satisfy a second control objective for a present time interval within the defined time window, the second control objective being a function of at least the distributed energy resource schedule for the microgrid (210).
Converter stations (104) have real and reactive power set points initially determined as part of a main loadflow analysis routinely performed on the AC power system connected to the converter stations (104). Viable real and/or reactive power set points for the converter stations (104) can be identified by calculating real and/or reactive power set point candidates for the converter stations (104) before the main loadflow analysis is performed again on the AC power system. The power set point candidates are calculated based on information determined as part of a previous iteration of the main loadflow analysis on the AC power system. The power set point candidates which violate an operating constraint imposed on the AC power system are identified, and a region of valid power set points is defined for the converter stations (104) that excludes the power set point candidates which violate an operating constraint imposed on the AC power system.
H02J 3/36 - Dispositions pour le transfert de puissance électrique entre réseaux à courant alternatif par l'intermédiaire de haute tension à courant continu
G05B 17/00 - Systèmes impliquant l'usage de modèles ou de simulateurs desdits systèmes
A furnace (10) for non-iron metals and a method of operating it are disclosed with a monitoring system (12) for monitoring in-situ the concentration of a passivation fluid,such as perfluoroketones in a cover gas(136). The monitoring system (12) includes a sensor (122) for determining an emission and/or an absorption of the passivation fluid at least one wavelength or wave- length band of the electromagnetic wave spectrum, with the measured concentration being used as a control input for a flow control system (13) controlling the supply of the cover gas (136) into the furnace (10).
F27D 7/02 - Alimentation en vapeur d'eau, en gaz ou en liquides
B22D 21/00 - Coulée de métaux non ferreux ou de composés métalliques, dans la mesure où leurs propriétés métallurgiques affectent le procédé de couléeUtilisation de compositions appropriées
C22B 9/05 - Affinage par traitement avec des gaz, p. ex. par décrassage par un gaz
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for generating a health profile of an industrial asset based upon data pertaining to such an industrial asset. The health profile describes an expected condition of the industrial asset during a prediction period, a predicted cause of the expected condition, and/or a predicted impact of the expected condition. In some embodiments, the health profile is generated using a model that is configured to be periodically and/or intermittently updated. Further, in some embodiments, a diagnostic profile may be generated describing diagnostic actions that may be taken to improve predictions included within a health profile and/or to improve a confidence in one or more of those predictions.
G06Q 10/04 - Prévision ou optimisation spécialement adaptées à des fins administratives ou de gestion, p. ex. programmation linéaire ou "problème d’optimisation des stocks"
G06Q 10/06 - Ressources, gestion de tâches, des ressources humaines ou de projetsPlanification d’entreprise ou d’organisationModélisation d’entreprise ou d’organisation
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for developing a criticality profile of an industrial asset. The criticality profile describes the importance of the industrial asset to a system in terms of one or more criticality metrics and/or one or more confidence profiles. Such metrics may include an operational metric indicative of the operation impact of the industrial asset on a system if the industrial asset remains unchanged or enters a degraded or improved state, a restoration metric indicative of a complexity of restoring the industrial asset to an operational state from the unchanged or degraded state and/or complexity of improving the industrial asset to an improved state, and/or an interdependency metric indicative of a relationship between the industrial asset and one or more other industrial assets and/or between the industrial asset and one or more structures in an environment associated with the industrial asset.
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for facilitating development, by a user, of a model describing a condition of an industrial asset. An output parameter of the model can be defined within a model development environment. The output parameter describes a condition of the industrial asset and can be defined using one or more variables. During deployment of the model within a deployment environment, respective variables of the model can be mapped to a data store where data associated with the variable is located. In this way, during development, a user can specify variables to be used within the model without specifying where to fetch and/or push data associated with the variable, for example. Further, the model can be executed within the deployment environment to assess the condition for a plurality of industrial assets.
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for developing a health profile of an industrial asset based upon data pertaining to such an industrial asset. At least some of the data is transformed into primary state indicators, respectively representative of the status or condition of an aspect of the industrial asset. Using the primary state indicators, one or more events that are likely to occur to the industrial asset are identified and a health profile is developed based upon such events. The health profile may describe maintenance actions that will reduce a likelihood of an event(s) occurring, may describe a business impact on an entity associated with the industrial asset if an event(s) occurs, and/or may describe a performance impact on the industrial asset if an event(s) occurs, for example.
Islanding events are detected using measurement information taken from several places in a network, e.g., from a system of intelligent electronic devices (lEDs ). In an example method of island detection, phase angle differences between local phase angles and remote phase angles in remote subnetworks are evaluated (850), and whether power is stable at the local and remote subnetworks is determined (860), using the local power data and the remote power data.
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for identifying event images captured during an event associated with power equipment, such as a maintenance action. An entity, such as a maintenance technician, is equipped with an image recorder and an audio recorder. In some embodiments, the image recorder and/or audio recorder are wearable, such as mounted to eyewear and/or headwear worn by the entity. Audio that is recorded by the audio recorder is processed to identify events (e.g., key actions in a maintenance procedure). Based upon the identification of an event from the audio, event images (e.g., images captured temporally proximate to when the event was identified in the audio) associated with the event are identified and stored in a library. In some embodiments, one or more of such event images are later displayed to entities via a heads-up display, for example.
G01N 21/27 - CouleurPropriétés spectrales, c.-à-d. comparaison de l'effet du matériau sur la lumière pour plusieurs longueurs d'ondes ou plusieurs bandes de longueurs d'ondes différentes en utilisant la détection photo-électrique
G01J 3/42 - Spectrométrie d'absorptionSpectrométrie à double faisceauSpectrométrie par scintillementSpectrométrie par réflexion
G01N 21/3504 - CouleurPropriétés spectrales, c.-à-d. comparaison de l'effet du matériau sur la lumière pour plusieurs longueurs d'ondes ou plusieurs bandes de longueurs d'ondes différentes en recherchant l'effet relatif du matériau pour les longueurs d'ondes caractéristiques d'éléments ou de molécules spécifiques, p. ex. spectrométrie d'absorption atomique en utilisant la lumière infrarouge pour l'analyse des gaz, p. ex. analyse de mélanges de gaz
G01N 21/39 - CouleurPropriétés spectrales, c.-à-d. comparaison de l'effet du matériau sur la lumière pour plusieurs longueurs d'ondes ou plusieurs bandes de longueurs d'ondes différentes en recherchant l'effet relatif du matériau pour les longueurs d'ondes caractéristiques d'éléments ou de molécules spécifiques, p. ex. spectrométrie d'absorption atomique en utilisant des lasers à longueur d'onde réglable
A method for detecting an open current transformer in an electrical power system includes measuring for a voltage value on a secondary side of a current transformer. The method continues with observing the voltage value for a predetermined waveform and initiating corrective action in the electrical power system upon detection of the predetermined waveform.
G01R 31/02 - Essai des appareils, des lignes ou des composants électriques pour y déceler la présence de courts-circuits, de discontinuités, de fuites ou de connexions incorrectes de lignes
H02H 3/52 - Circuits de protection de sécurité pour déconnexion automatique due directement à un changement indésirable des conditions électriques normales de travail avec ou sans reconnexion sensibles à l'apparition de formes d'ondes anormales, p. ex. d'un courant alternatif dans des installations à courant continu sensibles à l'apparition d'harmoniques
H02H 7/04 - Circuits de protection de sécurité spécialement adaptés aux machines ou aux appareils électriques de types particuliers ou pour la protection sectionnelle de systèmes de câble ou de ligne, et effectuant une commutation automatique dans le cas d'un changement indésirable des conditions normales de travail pour transformateurs
H02H 3/04 - Circuits de protection de sécurité pour déconnexion automatique due directement à un changement indésirable des conditions électriques normales de travail avec ou sans reconnexion Détails avec signalisation ou supervision additionnée à la déconnexion, p. ex. pour indiquer que l'appareil de protection a fonctionné
G01R 15/18 - Adaptations fournissant une isolation en tension ou en courant, p. ex. adaptations pour les réseaux à haute tension ou à courant fort utilisant des dispositifs inductifs, p. ex. des transformateurs
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COMPOSITE FRAME FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINES AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME
A composite frame (100) for an electrical machine includes an outer frame member (102) comprising a composite material including fibers having an aspect ratio of at least 1500. The outer frame member forms a central aperture (106) for holding an electrical machine (108). The outer frame member forms an outermost layer of the portion of the composite frame for surrounding the electrical machine and extending axially beyond laminations of the electrical machine. An attachment mechanism (104) is formed on at least one end of the frame member for attaching the frame member to a mechanical system.
B29C 70/32 - Façonnage par empilage, c.-à-d. application de fibres, de bandes ou de feuilles larges sur un moule, un gabarit ou un noyauFaçonnage par pistolage, c.-à-d. pulvérisation de fibres sur un moule, un gabarit ou un noyau sur un moule, un gabarit ou un noyau rotatifs
B29C 70/52 - Pultrusion, c.-à-d. façonnage et compression par traction continue à travers une matrice
A fiber-optic current sensor uses a highly-birefringent spun fiber (17) as sensing fiber (17). The light is fed through a retarder (16), which is a detuned quarter-wave or half-wave retarder (16). It is shown that such detuning can be used to compensate for temperature dependencies of the sensing head.
G01R 15/24 - Adaptations fournissant une isolation en tension ou en courant, p. ex. adaptations pour les réseaux à haute tension ou à courant fort utilisant des dispositifs modulateurs de lumière
G01R 33/032 - Mesure de la direction ou de l'intensité de champs magnétiques ou de flux magnétiques en utilisant des dispositifs magnéto-optiques, p. ex. par effet Faraday
The present invention is concerned with security zoning or clustering, i.e. the task of defining a set of non-overlapping security zones and assigning each node or resource of an Industrial Automation and Control System (IACS)to exactly one zone. The invention is based on deterministic, engineered information about network nodes of the IACS as retrieved from an IACS system description file or equivalent representation of the system configuration. The invention suggests an automated,structured and repeatable approach for segmenting the network of an IACS to better provide cyber security functionalities in an IACS installation, to decrease the risk for unintentional errors and to provide traceable documentation on the network segregation. The invention allows for more thorough zoning than that performed manually by engineers, especially when dealing with complex network topologies, and reduces the time that engineers need to spend in designing an optimal solution that meets all the security zoning requirements and rules.
A power line protection system and method are described with a current meter for monitoring the current (i) in the protected power line (10) and a circuit breaker (13-1,13-2,13-3), with the current meter including a sensor (15), particularly a fiber optic current sensor (FOCS), for monitoring a direct current component (i(tr)) in the current (i) transmitted and an analyser (141,16) for testing the direct current component (i(tr)) and for generating a fault signal for the circuit breaker (13-, 13-2,13-3).
H02H 3/08 - Circuits de protection de sécurité pour déconnexion automatique due directement à un changement indésirable des conditions électriques normales de travail avec ou sans reconnexion sensibles à une surcharge
H02H 1/00 - Détails de circuits de protection de sécurité
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NEW INSULATION MATERIALS FOR USE IN HIGH VOLTAGE POWER APPLICATIONS AND A NEW PROCESS FOR PREPARING SAID INSULATION MATERIAL
The present invention relates to insulation material for use in HV power applications comprising a mixture of amount between 0 and 95 wt% of a first component comprising a Ci-8 olefin polymer, and between 5 and 100 wt% of a second component comprising an ionomer The ionomer is a copolymer of a C1-8 olefin polymer and a partially neutralized acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid co-monomer, or anhydride form thereof, comprising between 1 and 20 wt% co-monomer, a multivalent metal salt and a neutralization degree between 1 and 100%. The total amount of C1-8 olefin polymer from the first and second component is between 80 and 99.5 wt% of the total weight of the insulation material. The insulation material has a thickness of at least 3 mm. The invention also relates to preparation processes and insulation material, HV or extra HV power applications prepared by said process.
H01B 3/44 - Isolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques matières plastiquesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques résinesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques cires résines vinyliquesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques matières plastiquesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques résinesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques cires résines acryliques
H01B 7/282 - Protection contre les dommages provoqués par des facteurs extérieurs, p. ex. gaines ou armatures par l'humidité, la corrosion, les attaques chimiques ou les conditions atmosphériques empêchant la pénétration de fluides dans les conducteurs ou les câbles
33.
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MONITORING AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS BY MEANS OF A TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE
The present disclosure relates to a method of monitoring an industrial process by means of a touch screen device having a touch screen, the method comprising: a) providing the touch screen device arranged to display process graphics defined by a plurality of process component representations of respective process components involved in performing process steps of the industrial process, the touch screen device enabling zoom operation of the process graphics and pan operation when the process graphics is in a zoomed-in state, b) displaying a process component representation of one of the plurality of process components in the process graphics, c) detecting on the touch screen a single user touch interaction, d) determining the location of the single user touch interaction in the process graphics, and in case the location is determined to correspond to the location of the process component representation, d) displaying on the touch screen a pop-up menu enabling monitoring of that process component which is associated with the user selected process component representation.
G05B 19/042 - Commande à programme autre que la commande numérique, c.-à-d. dans des automatismes à séquence ou dans des automates à logique utilisant des processeurs numériques
34.
A METHOD FOR PROVIDING RELIABLE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK
The invention comprises a method for communication between a wireless device node in a wireless sensor network (WSN) and control apparatus or control processes of an industrial control system. The method is used to determine a method of radio transmission which provides a greater or a lesser measure of transmission quality between nodes. Thus a transmitter node a) measures(30) a transmission quality metric of at least one packet received from two or more different switching branches, b)identifies (32) which of the two or more switching branches has the greater transmission quality metric, c) distributes (34) data packets with a first priority to the switching branch with the greater transmission quality metric, and d) transmits (38) data packets with the first priority such as real-time data on the switching branch with the greater transmission quality metric. In other aspects of the invention a wireless node, a sensor network system and a computer program for carrying out the method are described.
H04B 7/06 - Systèmes de diversitéSystèmes à plusieurs antennes, c.-à-d. émission ou réception utilisant plusieurs antennes utilisant plusieurs antennes indépendantes espacées à la station d'émission
H04B 7/08 - Systèmes de diversitéSystèmes à plusieurs antennes, c.-à-d. émission ou réception utilisant plusieurs antennes utilisant plusieurs antennes indépendantes espacées à la station de réception
H04B 7/10 - Diversité de polarisationDiversité de direction
H04W 40/12 - Sélection d'itinéraire ou de voie de communication, p. ex. routage basé sur l'énergie disponible ou le chemin le plus court sur la base de la qualité d'émission ou de la qualité des canaux
35.
BIDIRECTIONAL ELECTRIC POWER CONVERTER WITH FAULT-HANDLING CAPABILITY INCLUDING AN UNIPOLAR AND A BIPOLAR UNIT
A power conversion system (100) includes a unipolar bidirectional power converter (102) with DC terminals and a first controller (106), and a bipolar bidirectional power converter (104) with DC terminals connected in series with the DC terminals of the unipolar bidirectional power converter (102) and a second controller (108). The first controller (106) is operable to cause only a positive-valued DC voltage across the DC terminals of the unipolar bidirectional power converter (102). The second controller (108) is operable to cause a positive-valued or negative-valued DC voltage across the DC terminals of the bipolar bidirectional power converter (104) so that a total voltage of the power conversion system (100) is the sum of the positive-valued or negative-valued DC voltage across the DC terminals of the bipolar bidirectional power converter (104) and the positive-valued DC voltage across the DC terminals of the unipolar bidirectional power converter (102).
The present relates to a method for operating renewable energy power plant. The method of the invention comprises the steps of: establishing wireless communication amongst and between local controllers and a central controller for communicating information; communicating information wirelessly. Communicating information herein includes scheduling transmission of information based on the channel state of the local controllers in corresponding relation to its access point. The method also includes monitoring the said renewable energy power plant and of the components thereof by the central controller remotely; and controlling the said renewable energy power plant and of the components thereof by and / or through the local controller remotely. The invention also relates to a system for operating renewable energy power plant in accordance with the method of the invention.
H04Q 9/00 - Dispositions dans les systèmes de commande à distance ou de télémétrie pour appeler sélectivement une sous-station à partir d'une station principale, sous-station dans laquelle un appareil recherché est choisi pour appliquer un signal de commande ou pour obtenir des valeurs mesurées
There is presented a transformer arrangement for mitigating transient voltage oscillations. The transformer arrangement comprises a transformer. The transformer comprises a transformer core comprising at least one core leg. A winding is wound around one of the at least one core leg. The winding extends from a first winding terminal to a second winding terminal and comprises a first winding section along a first conductor extending from the first winding terminal to a first intermediate end point, and a second winding section along a second conduct or extending from a second intermediate end point to the second winding terminal. The transformer arrangement further comprises an external passive electric component connected between the first intermediate end point and either the second intermediate end point or the second winding terminal arranged to decrease an effective difference between capacitive and inductive voltage distributions between the intermediate end points such that transient voltage oscillations in the winding are mitigated.
H01F 27/34 - Moyens particuliers pour éviter ou réduire les effets électriques ou magnétiques indésirables, p. ex. pertes à vide, courants réactifs, harmoniques, oscillations, champs de fuite
38.
ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
The present invention is concerned with routing packets in a packet communication network including a first device (A) and a second device (B), wherein the two devices have first and second interfaces (0, 1) for accessing respectively a first and a second communication link, wherein the two links have distinct values of a respective link metric. The invention comprises assigning to the two interfaces of each device distinct IPv6 link-local addresses and a shared global IP address, and executing a routing protocol based on the assigned addresses. The invention facilitates routing in heterogeneous networks by enabling the networking layer to handle multiple communication interfaces of a given device as multiple nodes for routing in the network. Optimum routing decisions are reached which take into consideration the state of a link for each interface and that ultimately identify optimum paths across multiple link-layer technologies.
H04W 40/02 - Sélection d'itinéraire ou de voie de communication, p. ex. routage basé sur l'énergie disponible ou le chemin le plus court
H04L 12/707 - Prévention ou récupération du défaut de routage, p.ex. reroutage, redondance de route "virtual router redundancy protocol" [VRRP] ou "hot standby router protocol" [HSRP] par redondance des chemins d’accès
H04L 12/741 - Traitement de l'adressage d’en-tête pour le routage, p.ex. table de correspondance
H04L 12/721 - Procédures de routage, p.ex. routage par le chemin le plus court, routage par la source, routage à état de lien ou routage par vecteur de distance
39.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FLUID FLOW CONTROL IN A FLUID NETWORK SYSTEM
It is presented a method of controlling fluid flow in a fluid network system by means of a plurality of fluid machines. The method comprises the steps of a) obtaining a respective current fluid flow rate associated with each fluid machine, b) obtaining a current fluid machine speed of each fluid machine, c) obtaining desired fluid flow rates in the fluid network system, d) determining a new fluid machine speed for each fluid machine based on the current fluid machine speeds and a change in the fluid machine speed required to obtain the desired fluid flow rates, wherein the change in the fluid machine speed is determined by minimizing a total fluid machine power which is a function dependent of the change in the fluid machine speed, the minimization being performed with constraints for fluid flow rate, fluid machine pressure and fluid machine speed, and e) controlling the speed of the plurality of fluid machines according to the new fluid machine speeds such that the minimum total fluid machine power in the fluid network system is attained. A computer program product and a control system are also presented herein.
Rotating machines and magnetic thrust bearings therefor are disclosed. Magnetic thrust bearings may include a rotor core configured to extend coaxially around a shaft of a rotating machine, a non-magnetic element configured to be coaxially disposed on the shaft, and a stator comprising a stator core and a coil, both of which are configured to extend coaxially around the axis. The rotor core may include a substantially radially extending thrust face and a substantially axially extending peripheral surface. The non-magnetic element may radially space the thrust face from the shaft. The stator core may include a substantially radially extending first pole surface and a substantially axially extending second pole surface. The first pole surface may define an axial air gap with the thrust face, and the second pole surface may define a radial air gap with the peripheral surface.
The invention provides a method for obtaining valid oscillating components from raw process data in a process plant. The method includes applying a decomposition technique on the raw process data to obtain oscillating components having period values. These period values may be subjected to statistical treatment or be used as such to obtain applicable period values. Then, a regularity check is performed on the applicable period values to obtain first level valid oscillating components. Noise level in a process is estimated from the time series data, which is used to remove noisy oscillating components from the first level valid oscillating components to obtain second level valid oscillating components. The invention further includes clustering the second level valid oscillating components into unique oscillating components based on a mean period distance between given oscillating components.
G05B 11/42 - Commandes automatiques électriques avec les dispositions nécessaires pour obtenir des caractéristiques particulières, p. ex. proportionnelles, intégrales, différentielles pour obtenir une caractéristique à la fois proportionnelle et dépendante du temps, p. ex. P.I., P.I.D.
The present invention relates to a system for generating a secure key. The system of the invention comprises one or more devices that coordinate with the engineering tool correspondingly. The system has at least one seed pusher for providing a seed to the device in order to generate a secure key. The present invention also provides a method for generating a secure key by the system of the invention.
The invention relates to a system for registration of devices. The system of the invention has one or more devices for registration in a network, and an engineering tool for providing one or more secure registration data required for registering the devices securely. The system also has a certification module for validating the one or more secure registration data and registering the one or more devices. The invention also relates to a method for registration of devices by the system of the invention.
H04L 29/06 - Commande de la communication; Traitement de la communication caractérisés par un protocole
H04L 9/32 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégéesProtocoles réseaux de sécurité comprenant des moyens pour vérifier l'identité ou l'autorisation d'un utilisateur du système
H04L 9/00 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégéesProtocoles réseaux de sécurité
A permanent magnet machine with a hybrid cage and methods for operating same are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a rotor and hybrid cage for an electrical machine, the rotor comprising a rotor body having a central axis and including a plurality of permanent magnets positioned to create a plurality of rotor magnetic poles distributed around a peripheral surface of the rotor. The rotor also includes a hybrid cage that includes conductive loops around each of the rotor magnetic poles, where the conductive loops are controllable to form a closed circuit or an open circuit around each of the rotor magnetic poles. A closed circuit may be created when a magnetic field having a field strength or change of field strength that exceeds a threshold magnitude is present, such as during a fault condition, and an open circuit may be created when a magnetic field having a field strength or change of field strength that exceeds a threshold magnitude is not present, such as during normal operation.
Voltage instability protection for an electric power system is implemented by determining a change in power injected into a region of interest within the electric power system based on synchronized power measurements from different power injection points of the region of interest (200), and by determining a change in power absorbed by one or more loads in the region of interest based on synchronized power measurements from different load points of the region of interest (210). A change in power loss for the region of interest is determined based on the difference between the change in power injected into the region of interest and the change in power absorbed by the region of interest (220). A voltage instability condition is indicated when the change in power loss for the region of interest approximates the change in power injected into the region of interest (230).
H02J 3/24 - Dispositions pour empêcher ou réduire les oscillations de puissance dans les réseaux
G01R 19/25 - Dispositions pour procéder aux mesures de courant ou de tension ou pour en indiquer l'existence ou le signe utilisant une méthode de mesure numérique
H02H 3/24 - Circuits de protection de sécurité pour déconnexion automatique due directement à un changement indésirable des conditions électriques normales de travail avec ou sans reconnexion sensibles à une baisse ou un manque de tension
H02H 7/26 - Protection sectionnelle de systèmes de câbles ou de lignes, p. ex. pour déconnecter une section dans laquelle un court-circuit, un défaut à la terre, ou une décharge d'arc se sont produits
46.
A SELF SUPPLIED PROTECTION RELAY WITH A MODULE TO BOOST PERFORMANCE
The invention specifically relates to a protection relay that generates a trip signal to operate a circuit breaker in case of fault condition. The protection relay comprises of a first module (505) for measurement and analysis of power parameters of the power line connecting the power equipment that is being protected, the protection being provided by generating a first trip signal (540) for operating a circuit breaker connected in the power line. The protection relay also comprises of one or more second modules for boosting performance of the protection relay. There is second module that performs measurement and analysis of power parameters (503) to generate a second trip signal (530) for operating the circuit breaker connected in the power line. The first trip signal (540) and the second trip signal (530) from the protection relay are logically combined (550) to generate a trip signal (560) that operates the circuit breaker.
H02H 1/06 - Dispositions pour fournir la puissance d'actionnement
H02H 3/10 - Circuits de protection de sécurité pour déconnexion automatique due directement à un changement indésirable des conditions électriques normales de travail avec ou sans reconnexion sensibles à une surcharge sensibles de plus à quelque autre condition électrique anormale
H02H 3/16 - Circuits de protection de sécurité pour déconnexion automatique due directement à un changement indésirable des conditions électriques normales de travail avec ou sans reconnexion sensibles à un courant de défaut à la terre ou à la masse
H02H 3/52 - Circuits de protection de sécurité pour déconnexion automatique due directement à un changement indésirable des conditions électriques normales de travail avec ou sans reconnexion sensibles à l'apparition de formes d'ondes anormales, p. ex. d'un courant alternatif dans des installations à courant continu sensibles à l'apparition d'harmoniques
47.
CHEMICALLY CROSS-LINKED POLYETHYLENE USED FOR ELECTRICAL INSULATION
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a cross-linked polyolefin by mixing polyolefin with an azo compound of formula (I) wherein X is a bond or an oxy-carbonyl group, and R1 and R2 are each independently selected from alkyl, cycloalkyl and aryl; the cross-linked polyolefin obtainable by the method; and its use for electrical insulation applications.
C08L 23/02 - Compositions contenant des homopolymères ou des copolymères d'hydrocarbures aliphatiques non saturés ne possédant qu'une seule liaison double carbone-carboneCompositions contenant des dérivés de tels polymères non modifiées par un post-traitement chimique
C08J 3/24 - Réticulation, p. ex. vulcanisation, de macromolécules
C08L 23/36 - Compositions contenant des homopolymères ou des copolymères d'hydrocarbures aliphatiques non saturés ne possédant qu'une seule liaison double carbone-carboneCompositions contenant des dérivés de tels polymères modifiées par post-traitement chimique par réaction avec des composés contenant de l'azote, p. ex. par nitration
H01B 9/02 - Câbles de transport d'énergie avec écrans ou couches conductrices, p. ex. en vue d'éviter des gradients de potentiel élevés
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48.
CROSS-LINKED POLYETHYLENE USED FOR ELECTRICAL INSULATION APPLICATIONS
The present invention relates to a method for cross-linking thick layers of polyolefin by electromagnetic radiation. The invention relates further to a cross- linked polyolefin obtainable by the method and its use as electrical insulation material.
C08J 3/28 - Traitement par ondes énergétiques ou par rayonnement de particules
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A method for identifying a fault condition in an electrical machine in which at least a stator (120) or a rotor (220) has parallel winding branches (30, 40, 50, 60) is disclosed. A measurement (230) is carried out for obtaining a set of circulating current values (240) between two parallel winding branches (30, 40, 50, 60) of which each winding branch (30, 40, 50, 60) comprises a single coil (20). A frequency analysis (250) is applied on the set of circulating current values (250) to obtain at least one frequency component (260). A fault condition (280) of the electrical machine is determined on the basis of the at least one frequency component (260).
The invention relates to a method, presentation control arrangement and a computer program product enabling a maintenance engineer of a process control system (10) to obtain details of a process control device (24). The arrangement comprises an engineer selecting unit (21) that receives an alarm from a process control device (24), which is placed at a first location of the process control system, selects a maintenance engineer for handling the alarm, where the selected engineer has a wireless terminal (32) at a second location (L2), and sends guiding data to the wireless terminal for moving from the second to the first location, where the arrangement also comprises a progress monitoring unit (23; 41) that monitors the progress of the wireless terminal, determines if it is within a distance d from the first location and ensures that the wireless terminal presents detailed data of the process control device if it is.
G06Q 10/06 - Ressources, gestion de tâches, des ressources humaines ou de projetsPlanification d’entreprise ou d’organisationModélisation d’entreprise ou d’organisation
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for adaptive out of step protection for power generators with load resynchronization capability are disclosed. According to one method, when a fault condition occurs in a load being supplied by a power generator, a number of pole slips expected to occur in the generator due to the fault before resynchronization is estimated. It is determined whether the estimated number of pole slips exceeds a threshold. An offline or online status of the generator is controlled based on the determination as to whether the estimated number of pole slips exceeds the threshold.
A wireless communication device(40)providing a node in the network comprises a wireless transmitter (48), a wireless receiver (46), a transmission buffer (52), and a packet prioritizing unit (50) configured to obtain data relating to packets to be transmitted in the network, obtain indications of the remaining lifetime of the packets, where the indications are based on the time needed for reaching a destination node, prioritize the packets according to the remaining life time indications, where the prioritization is made in ascending order from an indication of a low remaining life time to a high remaining lifetime, and place the packets in the transmission buffer for transmission according to the prioritization.
Rotors for electrical machines and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. Electrical machine rotors may include a hollow non-magnetic shaft, an active region, and a plurality of coolant passages extending within the active region. The hollow non-magnetic shaft may extend along an axis and have an exterior surface that defines a shaft space extending along the axis. At least a portion of the active region may be disposed within the shaft space.
A power generation system (10) includes at least one generator (12) that generates a medium voltage direct current that has a positive DC voltage output (50A) and a negative DC voltage output (52B). The system also provides a medium voltage DC (MVDC) cable system (66) with a positive pole cable (62) and a negative pole cable (64), wherein the positive pole cable is connected to the positive DC voltage output and the negative pole cable is connected to the negative DC voltage output. A substation (110) is connected to the MVDC cable system and includes at least one DC/DC step-up converter (114) to step-up the medium voltage direct current to a high voltage direct current (HVDC).
H02J 3/36 - Dispositions pour le transfert de puissance électrique entre réseaux à courant alternatif par l'intermédiaire de haute tension à courant continu
H02J 3/38 - Dispositions pour l’alimentation en parallèle d’un seul réseau, par plusieurs générateurs, convertisseurs ou transformateurs
H02M 3/22 - Transformation d'une puissance d'entrée en courant continu en une puissance de sortie en courant continu avec transformation intermédiaire en courant alternatif
H02M 3/337 - Transformation d'une puissance d'entrée en courant continu en une puissance de sortie en courant continu avec transformation intermédiaire en courant alternatif par convertisseurs statiques utilisant des tubes à décharge avec électrode de commande ou des dispositifs à semi-conducteurs avec électrodes de commande pour produire le courant alternatif intermédiaire utilisant des dispositifs du type triode ou transistor exigeant l'application continue d'un signal de commande utilisant uniquement des dispositifs à semi-conducteurs en configuration push-pull
H02M 7/48 - Transformation d'une puissance d'entrée en courant continu en une puissance de sortie en courant alternatif sans possibilité de réversibilité par convertisseurs statiques utilisant des tubes à décharge avec électrode de commande ou des dispositifs à semi-conducteurs avec électrode de commande
H02M 7/483 - Convertisseurs munis de sorties pouvant chacune avoir plus de deux niveaux de tension
55.
VISUALIZATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL POWER DISTRIBUTION DATA
The present invention is concerned with supervision of a power distribution system (1), in particular visualizing and displaying a system state to an operator. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method of and a system for visualizing or contouring a power distribution system state by displaying to an operator output data values (3) interpolated at output data locations (4) from input data including distributed input data sensor locations in three dimensions and corresponding dynamically updated input data values. The method is comprised of defining triangles (7) in the volume, determining, for each triangle (7), closest input data locations (5) according to a closeness criteria, projecting each triangle (7) onto a visualization plane (11), determining, for an output data location (4) on the visualization plane (11) at least one triangle (7), the projection of which includes the output data location (4), and interpolating, for the output data location (4), the input data values of the closest input data locations (5) of each of the at least one determined triangle (7) to generate an output data value (3) corresponding to the output data location (4).
Rotating machines and rotors therefor are disclosed. The bearings may be magnetic bearings configured to magnetically levitate the rotor. The rotors may include a hollow fiber-reinforced composite shaft and a magnetic bearing rotor core disposed on the shaft and configured for use with the magnetic bearing. In some examples, the rotating machines may be electrical machines.
A programmable logic controller (14) for an industrial control system (10) comprises an application logic execution layer (42) and at least one of an update checking layer (40) and an output checking layer (44). The application logic layer (42) is adapted for receiving sensor input data (32) from at least one sensor (16) coupled to the programmable logic controller (14) and for processing the sensor input data (32) to generate an output parameter (30) for an actuator (18). The output checking layer (44) is adapted for receiving the output parameter (30), for checking the output parameter, whether the output parameter is an allowed output parameter corresponding to a list (52) of allowed output parameters; and for outputting only an allowed output parameter to the actuator (16). The update checking layer (40) is adapted for receiving application logic update data (50), wherein the application logic update data contains information for updating the application logic (43). The update checking layer (40) is adapted for checking the application logic update data (50), whether the application logic update data is allowed application logic update data, by verifying, whether every application logic update defined by the application logic update data (50) corresponds to an application logic update in a list (48) of allowed logic updates, and for updating the application logic (43), only if the update data is allowed application logic update data.
G05B 19/05 - Automates à logique programmables, p. ex. simulant les interconnexions logiques de signaux d'après des diagrammes en échelle ou des organigrammes
The present invention relates to a radial water barrier for a dynamic high-voltage submarine cable. The water barrier comprises a corrugated metal tube (10) having an inner diameter (Di) in a range of 50 - 90mm and a corrugation pitch (p) in a range of 6 - 10mm. The metal tube has a wall thickness in a range of 0.7 - 1mm and a corrugation depth (d) of more than 6mm.
H01B 7/04 - Câbles, conducteurs ou cordons flexibles, p. ex. câbles traînants
H01B 7/282 - Protection contre les dommages provoqués par des facteurs extérieurs, p. ex. gaines ou armatures par l'humidité, la corrosion, les attaques chimiques ou les conditions atmosphériques empêchant la pénétration de fluides dans les conducteurs ou les câbles
The present invention is concerned with establishing and maintaining a routing protocol based on a measured link metric p, in particular for a smart grid communication system. A link 1 between a first node such as a router A and a neighbouring second node B of a communication path from a source to a destination in a packet oriented communication network is selected wherein the two nodes are connected via a first communication link 1 and a second communication link 2. The link 1, 2 may have stochastic or time variable properties due to the lossy underlying communication technology. These stochastic and time variable properties are modelled as a Finite State Markov Channel FSMC with two states 5, 6. An updated link metric p(t+1) at a point in time t+1 of the first communication link is determined. The metric p is based on state transition probabilities λ1 9 and λ2 10 of the first and second state of the FSMC respectively. The first or the second communication link 1, 2 is selected for transmitting a further packet from node A to node B by comparing the updated link metric p(t+1) to a threshold pthr.
H04W 40/12 - Sélection d'itinéraire ou de voie de communication, p. ex. routage basé sur l'énergie disponible ou le chemin le plus court sur la base de la qualité d'émission ou de la qualité des canaux
H04L 12/711 - Prévention ou récupération du défaut de routage, p.ex. reroutage, redondance de route "virtual router redundancy protocol" [VRRP] ou "hot standby router protocol" [HSRP] par redondance des chemins d’accès par chemins actifs ou en veille M :N
The present disclosure relates to communication between substations, and in particular to transmission and reception of packets in substation networks. In order to enable routing of otherwise non-routable packets, a device internal tunneling mechanism is provided. The tunneling mechanism is provided by means of an added protocol layer. The added protocol layer does not imply any modifications to already existing protocol layers. According to one example the new protocol layer is provided on top of the medium access layer. According to another example the new protocol layer is provided between the physical layer and the medium access layer. According to yet another example the new protocol layer is provided as part of an Ethernet controller.
H04L 12/28 - Réseaux de données à commutation caractérisés par la configuration des liaisons, p. ex. réseaux locaux [LAN Local Area Networks] ou réseaux étendus [WAN Wide Area Networks]
H04L 29/06 - Commande de la communication; Traitement de la communication caractérisés par un protocole
H02H 1/00 - Détails de circuits de protection de sécurité
H04L 29/08 - Procédure de commande de la transmission, p.ex. procédure de commande du niveau de la liaison
A transmitting node (24) in an industrial wireless network (WN1) transmits a first number of bits (BS) to a receiving node (30), where at least one bit is partitioned into segments and each segment is transmitted at a different frequency according to a frequency transmission scheme. The receiving node (30) receives the number of bits (BS), determines the quality of each segment of a received bit, collects quality determinations of segments, forms a quality measure for each frequency through combining quality determinations of the corresponding frequency, compares each quality measure with a quality measure criterion, determines at least one frequency that does not fulfill the quality measure criterion and informs (FII) the transmitting node about frequencies for which the corresponding quality measures do not fulfill the quality measure criterion. The transmitting node receives the information (FII) and updates the frequency transmission scheme.
A power distribution system has a plurality of reactive power resources including capacitor banks (104) and distributed energy resources (106) connected to branches (102) of the power distribution system. Power loss is reduced in the distribution system by determining discrete switch states for the capacitor banks (104) and continuous set points for the distributed energy resources (106), so that the reactive power provided by the reactive power resources reduces power loss while optionally correcting voltage violations in the power distribution system when the capacitor banks (104) are set in accordance with the respective discrete switch states and the distributed energy resources (106) are operated at the respective continuous set points. The range of values for the continuous set points is constrained based on maximum and minimum reactive power limits for each distributed energy resource (106) under consideration.
The present invention is concerned with an inspection of distributed parts of an industrial process by an unmanned vehicle or mobile sensor platform equipped with appropriate sensors, with the control of the sensor and the signal returned by the vehicle being integrated into a SCADA system of the industrial process. Specifically, an operator is able to direct the UAV to ad-hoc inspection points of the distributed industrial, with an optimal or preferred route being determined automatically.
G05D 1/00 - Commande de la position, du cap, de l'altitude ou de l'attitude des véhicules terrestres, aquatiques, aériens ou spatiaux, p. ex. utilisant des pilotes automatiques
G05D 1/02 - Commande de la position ou du cap par référence à un système à deux dimensions
G05D 1/10 - Commande de la position ou du cap dans les trois dimensions simultanément
A component feeder (100) comprises a distributer for distributing components (20) from a bulk storage on a pick surface (10), and a retaining wall (40) preventing the components (20) from escaping the pick surface (10). The retaining wall (40) is flexible such that it deforms when a force is applied on it, and it assumes its original shape when the force is no longer applied. The flexible retaining wall (40) allows a robot gripper (30) to push the retaining wall (40) aside when picking a component (20) close to the retaining wall (40).
B65G 47/14 - Dispositifs pour alimenter en objets ou matériaux les transporteurs pour alimenter en objets à partir de piles d'objets en désordre ou de tas d'objets en vrac disposant ou présentant les objets par des moyens mécaniques ou pneumatiques durant l'alimentation
B65G 47/91 - Dispositifs pour saisir et déposer les articles ou les matériaux comportant des pinces pneumatiques, p. ex. aspirantes
The present invention relates to an HVDC cable product, such as a power cable, a cable accessory or a bushing, where the HVDC cable product comprises an elongate conductor and an insulation system arranged to concentrically surround the conductor. The insulation system comprises an insulation layer formed from a composite material comprising a polymer matrix and filler particles of an aluminosilicate.
H01B 3/44 - Isolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques matières plastiquesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques résinesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques cires résines vinyliquesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques matières plastiquesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques résinesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques cires résines acryliques
H01B 3/02 - Isolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances inorganiques
H01B 3/04 - Isolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances inorganiques mica
H01B 7/28 - Protection contre les dommages provoqués par des facteurs extérieurs, p. ex. gaines ou armatures par l'humidité, la corrosion, les attaques chimiques ou les conditions atmosphériques
66.
ELECTRO-THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING ELECTRO-THERMAL ENERGY
A system and method for electro-thermal energy storage, wherein the system comprises: a hot thermal storage arrangement (1) comprising a hot storage heat exchanger (11); a cold thermal storage arrangement (2) comprising a cold storage heat exchanger (21); a thermodynamic cycle unit configured to transfer thermal energy from the cold storage arrangement to the hot storage arrangement in a charging mode, and to convert thermal energy from the hot storage arrangement into work and, preferably, subsequently into electric energy in a discharging mode, wherein the thermodynamic cycle unit comprises a fluid circuit for circulating a working fluid through the hot storage heat exchanger as well as through the cold storage heat exchanger, wherein the fluid circuit further comprises a pump (31) for maintaining a circulation of working fluid in the discharging mode and a first turbine (321) for expanding working fluid in the discharging mode; and wherein the thermodynamic cycle unit comprises a second turbine (322) for expanding working fluid in the discharging mode, said second turbine being connected in series with the first turbine so that working fluid may flow from the first to the second turbine in the discharging mode, and an intercooling heat exchanger (33) located in the fluid circuit between the first and the second turbine.
F01K 3/00 - Ensembles fonctionnels caractérisés par l'emploi d'accumulateurs de vapeur ou de chaleur ou bien de réchauffeurs intermédiaires de vapeur
F01K 3/12 - Ensembles fonctionnels caractérisés par l'emploi d'accumulateurs de vapeur ou de chaleur ou bien de réchauffeurs intermédiaires de vapeur comportant plusieurs accumulateurs
F01K 9/00 - Ensembles fonctionnels de machines à vapeur caractérisés par des condenseurs disposés ou modifiés de façon à s'adapter aux machines motrices
F01K 25/10 - Ensembles fonctionnels ou machines motrices caractérisés par l'emploi de fluides énergétiques particuliers non prévus ailleursEnsembles fonctionnant selon un cycle fermé, non prévus ailleurs utilisant des vapeurs particulières ces vapeurs étant froides, p. ex. ammoniac, gaz carbonique, éther
F22B 1/02 - Méthodes de production de vapeur caractérisées par le genre de chauffage par exploitation de l'énergie thermique contenue dans une source chaude
Failure of industrial equipment in a process environment is detected by a mobile communications device. The mobile communications device comprises a smell sensor and a processing unit. An airborne chemical compound is detected and transduced into an electrical signal representing smell data. The smell data is classified into at least one smell class from a group of smell classes, each one of the smell classes in the group of smell classes being associated with a malfunction of a part of the industrial equipment. At least one upcoming malfunction in the process environment is thereby detected. A control action in the process environment for control of the part the industrial equipment is then identified so as to mitigate or stop the at least one upcoming malfunction. An indicator of the at least one upcoming malfunction and/or the control action is provided to a user interface of the mobile communications device.
G05B 19/042 - Commande à programme autre que la commande numérique, c.-à-d. dans des automatismes à séquence ou dans des automates à logique utilisant des processeurs numériques
The present disclosure relates to latency determination in a substation network. One aspect relates to a method being performed in a first electronic device of the substation network. Another aspect relates to a method being performed in a relay device of the substation network. Yet another aspect relates to a method being performed in a second electronic device of the substation network. Latency is determined using a precision time protocol, such as the IEEE 1588v2 protocol. However, no GPS based master clock timing is required. Instead at least one data value is included as payload in a message of the precision time protocol. The relay device adds a residence time duration and a link latency to the message. The message is then forwarded to the second electronic device. A corresponding first electronic device, relay device, and second electronic device as well as a computer program and computer program product are also provided.
The invention relates to a method, attentiveness indicator device (20) and computer program product for providing an indication of a level of attentiveness required for a user on a vessel comprising a group of computers providing data of different types employed in the navigation of the vessel, the attentiveness indicator device (20) is configured to obtain various types of vessel handling data from the computers, weight vessel handling data in dependence of importance, combine the vessel handling data for obtaining an attentiveness value, compare the attentiveness value with at least one threshold, assign an attentiveness level to the attentiveness value based on the comparison, and present the attentiveness level (24) to the user in order to provide an indication of the attentiveness required.
A manufacturing system has one or more work cells that each performs one or more manufacturing processes. The system also has one or more mobile transport units ("MTUs") that deliver transportable containers containing workpieces to and from said work cells. The MTUs deliver the containers to the work cells in a manner such that the workpieces are localized in the work cells. The manufacturing system also has a computer system that has status information for each of the one or more MTUs and uses the status information to control each of the one or more MTUs to deliver the transportable containers to and from the one or more work cells.
The invention relates to a method, energy management device (28) and a computer program product for managing energy consumption of a home automation system (10) comprising a number of energy consumption entities (12, 14, 16), where each entity comprises a number of energy consumption devices (32, 34, 36, 38, 40) having operational settings. The energy management device obtains the actual energy consumption of an energy consuming entity of the home automation system, compares the actual energy consumption with a threshold corresponding to an instantaneous desired energy consumption of the entity and linked to an energy consumption constraint. If the actual energy consumption reaches the threshold, it then determines new operational settings for at least some of the energy consumption devices of the energy consuming entity, where the settings are being determined for adapting the energy consumption of the energy consuming entity to variations in the constraint, and finally applies the new operational settings.
H02J 3/14 - Circuits pour réseaux principaux ou de distribution, à courant alternatif pour règler la tension dans des réseaux à courant alternatif par changement d'une caractéristique de la charge du réseau par interruption, ou mise en circuit, des charges du réseau, p. ex. charge équilibrée progressivement
H04L 12/28 - Réseaux de données à commutation caractérisés par la configuration des liaisons, p. ex. réseaux locaux [LAN Local Area Networks] ou réseaux étendus [WAN Wide Area Networks]
G05B 15/02 - Systèmes commandés par un calculateur électriques
72.
SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONE OR MORE REENGINEERING SOLUTIONS AND A METHOD THEREOF
The invention describes a system for providing one or more reengineering solutions and a method for providing one or more reengineering solutions utilizing the system of the invention. The system takes in input indicative of dependencies among functional blocks of automation application and user input including user constraints to provide a set of reengineering solutions.
G05B 19/042 - Commande à programme autre que la commande numérique, c.-à-d. dans des automatismes à séquence ou dans des automates à logique utilisant des processeurs numériques
73.
METHOD AND EAR PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS
The present disclosure relates to a method of monitoring an industrial process by means of an ear protection system having an ear protection unit with a left speaker and a right speaker. The method comprises obtaining (S2) a direction from which a sound is to be provided based on an angle between a coordinate system defined by the ear protection unit and a coordinate system defined by an industrial process environment of the industrial process, and on a location of the origin of the coordinate system of the ear protection unit in the coordinate system of the industrial process environment relative a location of an industrial process component in the coordinate system of the industrial process environment; obtaining (S4) real-time process variable data relating to at least one process variable of the industrial process component; and providing (S5) a 3-d sound that simulates an origination from the direction by means of at least one of the left speaker and the right speaker, which 3-d sound is indicative of a state of the industrial process component, wherein the 3-d sound simulates a realistic sound of the at least one process variable, reflecting a real-time state of the at least one process variable. An ear protection system carrying out the method is also presented herein.
The present disclosure relates to a method of guiding a user of a mobile device in an industrial process environment in order to evacuate the user in case of an event that results in impaired visibility in the industrial process environment. The method comprises receiving (S1) instructions from an industrial control system to provide guidance to an exit of the industrial process environment in response to an event that results in impaired visibility in the industrial process environment, the instructions being received by the mobile device; obtaining (S4) a direction of a first route leading to a first place of exit of the industrial process environment based on a location of the mobile device;and generating (S5) a 3-d sound simulating an origination from the direction so as to allow the user to move in the first direction, wherein the sound is a sound effect. A mobile device carrying out the method is also presented herein.
G01C 21/20 - Instruments pour effectuer des calculs de navigation
G08B 7/06 - Systèmes de signalisation selon plus d'un des groupes Systèmes d'appel de personnes selon plus d'un des groupes utilisant une transmission électrique
The present invention is concerned with a master control system layer for a Voltage Source Converter (VSC) based Multi-Terminal High Voltage Direct Current (MTDC) system. The invention is applicable to general topologies of the MTDC grid, including meshed topologies and isolated islands, and its benefits become specifically apparent in MTDC systems with five or more terminals where management of all possible different operating condition will require unacceptable engineering efforts if only simple feedback control loops are used. The invention includes mathematical optimization procedures to determine, in real-time and based on actual operating conditions, controller settings that minimize a cost criterion or optimize any other objective function. Controller settings include set-points or reference values as well as controller parameters such as droop constants or gains. Furthermore, it introduces model predictive control to include predictions of the effect of control actions on the system state evolution and predictions of future operating conditions in the optimization procedure.
H02M 7/757 - Transformation d'une puissance d'entrée en courant alternatif en une puissance de sortie en courant continuTransformation d'une puissance d'entrée en courant continu en une puissance de sortie en courant alternatif avec possibilité de réversibilité par convertisseurs statiques utilisant des tubes à décharge avec électrode de commande ou des dispositifs à semi-conducteurs avec électrode de commande utilisant des dispositifs du type thyratron ou thyristor exigeant des moyens d'extinction utilisant uniquement des dispositifs à semi-conducteurs
H02J 3/36 - Dispositions pour le transfert de puissance électrique entre réseaux à courant alternatif par l'intermédiaire de haute tension à courant continu
H02J 3/00 - Circuits pour réseaux principaux ou de distribution, à courant alternatif
76.
METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SECURITY KEY RENEWAL IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
The present disclosure relates to a method (20) for security key renewal performed in a key management device (2) of a communication system (1). The communication system (1) comprises two or more communication devices (3, 4, 5, 6) communicating data packets by using a first security key for transmission and reception. The method (20) comprises: transmitting (21), to the two or more communication devices (3, 4, 5, 6), a second security key for transmission and reception of the data packets; transmitting (22), to the two or more communication devices (3, 4, 5, 6), an activation message for activating use of the second security key for reception of the data packets; transmitting (23), to the two or more communication devices (3, 4, 5, 6), an activation message for activating use of the second security key for transmission of the data packets; transmitting (24), to the two or more communication devices (3, 4, 5, 6); a deactivation message for deactivating use of the first security key for transmission of the data packets; and transmitting (25), to the two or more communication devices (3, 4, 5, 6), a deactivation message for deactivating use of the first security key for reception of the data packets.
The present disclosure relates to a method of detecting abnormal heat emission of an industrial process component in an industrial process to facilitate troubleshooting of the industrial process component. The method obtaining (S0) a current thermal image of the industrial process component; obtaining (S3) a reference thermal image of the industrial process component, the reference thermal image depicting the industrial process component in a normal condition; comparing (S4) the current thermal image with the reference thermal image; and determining (S5) that the industrial process component emits an abnormal amount of heat if a difference between the reference thermal image and the current thermal image is detected in the step of comparing (S4) the current thermal image with the reference thermal image. If a difference is determined between the reference thermal image and the current thermal image, a visual indication in the current thermal image that the industrial process component emits an abnormal amount of heat is provided (S6), wherein the visual indication is provided in an area of the industrial process component emitting the abnormal amount of heat. A device carrying out the method is also presented herein.
G01N 25/20 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par l'utilisation de moyens thermiques en recherchant la production de quantités de chaleur, c.-à-d. la calorimétrie, p. ex. en mesurant la chaleur spécifique, en mesurant la conductivité thermique
The invention relates to a method, presentation control arrangement and a computer program product enabling a user (52) of a process control system (10) to obtain details of a process control object. Distances between a mobile terminal (32) of the user and process control objects (24, 26) in an area (A) around the mobile terminal are determined as well as the closest process control object to the mobile terminal, process data (DA1, DA2, DA3) of this object is obtained and presented together with a representation (54) of the object on a display (34) of the mobile terminal (32), where the representation of the closest process control object is emphasized compared with the presentation of other process control objects (56) and the amount of process data being presented is dependent on the distance between the mobile terminal and the process control object.
G05B 19/042 - Commande à programme autre que la commande numérique, c.-à-d. dans des automatismes à séquence ou dans des automates à logique utilisant des processeurs numériques
G05B 19/409 - Commande numérique [CN], c.-à-d. machines fonctionnant automatiquement, en particulier machines-outils, p. ex. dans un milieu de fabrication industriel, afin d'effectuer un positionnement, un mouvement ou des actions coordonnées au moyen de données d'un programme sous forme numérique caractérisée par l'utilisation de l'entrée manuelle des données [MDI] ou par l'utilisation d'un panneau de commande, p. ex. commande de fonctions avec le panneauCommande numérique [CN], c.-à-d. machines fonctionnant automatiquement, en particulier machines-outils, p. ex. dans un milieu de fabrication industriel, afin d'effectuer un positionnement, un mouvement ou des actions coordonnées au moyen de données d'un programme sous forme numérique caractérisée par les détails du panneau de commande ou par la fixation de paramètres
79.
METHOD AND SENSOR NODE NETWORK INTERFACE SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS CONTROL OF AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS
The present disclosure relates to method of allocating time slots for sensor node sample transmission from sensor nodes in a wireless sensor node network which forms part of a control system for controlling an industrial process. The method comprises receiving (S1-1) a sample from a first sensor node in a first time slot of a superframe, which first sample has a value outside an accepted range of values, obtaining (S2) an identification of a second time slot of the superframe in which second time slot the first sensor node is to send a further sample in a subsequent superframe, and providing instructions (S5) to the first sensor node to send the further sample in the second time slot of a subsequent superframe. A computer program product and a sensor node network interface system are also disclosed herein.
H04Q 9/00 - Dispositions dans les systèmes de commande à distance ou de télémétrie pour appeler sélectivement une sous-station à partir d'une station principale, sous-station dans laquelle un appareil recherché est choisi pour appliquer un signal de commande ou pour obtenir des valeurs mesurées
The invention relates to a method, video control arrangement and a computer program product for determining objects (52, 24) present in a process control system. The video control arrangement comprises an object determining unit configured to order a group of video cameras, comprising at least one video camera (32), to repeatedly scan an area (A) in order to obtain a set of video streams, determine if there are any new objects (24, 52) associated with the process control system in the area through detecting object identifiers (51, 53) of objects in the video streams, determine if a detected new object is stationary or mobile, report the detected object to a process control server and register stationary objects as process control objects.
G06T 1/00 - Traitement de données d'image, d'application générale
G05B 19/042 - Commande à programme autre que la commande numérique, c.-à-d. dans des automatismes à séquence ou dans des automates à logique utilisant des processeurs numériques
81.
ENERGY SCHEDULING TO A LOAD IN BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEM
The present disclosure relates to a method of determining a schedule for energy delivery to at least one load in a building automation system. The method comprises acquiring an association between at least two parameters and a schedule for delivery of energy to at least one load in accordance with acquired energy need for the at least one load, each one of the at least two parameters relating to priority of a respective property associated with the delivery of energy. The method further comprises receiving end-user selection data relating to weighting of the at least two parameters for the at least one load. The method further comprises determining the schedule for the energy delivery to the at least one load based on the weighting of the at least two parameters. A computer program and an energy management unit are also disclosed herein.
A network manager device (20) in an industrial wireless network (WN) sends a network investigating message to other network nodes (24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34) for processing and forwarding through the network, the message comprising a message weight. A wireless communication device providing a node (30) in the network receives the message from another network node (24), determines a communication weight based on the quality of communication, adds the communication weight to the message weight and compares the sum with the node weight. If the sum is lower than the node weight, it is set as new node weight and as new message weight, whereupon the changed message is sent to other nodes in the network. The network manager device maps the topology of the network based on updated node weights, sets a communication scheduling scheme based on the mapped topology and informs the network nodes of the scheme.
The present invention is concerned with securing messages 100 within a communication network of an industrial process control system, in particular of a substation automation system. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method of and a system for securing messages 100. A multi-block message 100 to be transmitted via a communication network is secured by a block-based authentication, encryption and/or integrity information. Only residue of the previous block 101, 102, 103, 104, 107 in form of block based information is needed to generate the block based information of the next block 101, 102, 103, 104, 107. Therefore, the previous block 101, 102, 103, 104, 107 can already be transmitted while block based information of the next block 101, 102, 103, 104, 107 is generated. This enables on-the-fly authentication of the multi-block message 200 and authentication at an increased rate.
H04L 9/32 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégéesProtocoles réseaux de sécurité comprenant des moyens pour vérifier l'identité ou l'autorisation d'un utilisateur du système
H04L 9/06 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégéesProtocoles réseaux de sécurité l'appareil de chiffrement utilisant des registres à décalage ou des mémoires pour le codage par blocs, p. ex. système DES
84.
TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED FIBER-OPTIC CURRENT SENSOR
In a fiber-optic current sensor, a 22.5° Faraday rotator,which is part of the sensing fiber coil,determines the working point of the sensor. The coil is operated with substantially linearly polarized light or incoherent substantially left and right circularly polarized light waves. In one arrangement, a polarization beam splitter generates two optical signals that vary in anti-phase with changing current. A signal processor determines the current from the two anti-phase signals. Appropriately detuned and oriented fiber-optic half-wave or quarter-wave retarders before the fiber coil are used to reduce or cancel the adverse effects of temperature and bend-induced birefringence on the measurement signal. Moreover, the temperature may be derived from the difference in the bias of the anti-phase signals and may be used to cancel temperature effects in the signal processor.
G01R 15/24 - Adaptations fournissant une isolation en tension ou en courant, p. ex. adaptations pour les réseaux à haute tension ou à courant fort utilisant des dispositifs modulateurs de lumière
G01R 19/32 - Compensation des variations de température
85.
ACTIVE MAGNETIC BEARING ASSEMBLY AND ARRANGEMENT OF MAGNETS THEREFOR
The subject matter described herein includes an active magnetic bearing assembly. The active magnetic bearing assembly includes a rotor configured to rotate with the shaft of a rotating machine. The active magnetic bearing assembly includes a stator that circumferentially surrounds the rotor and remains stationary. The assembly further includes a plurality of magnets coupled to the stator and circumferentially placed from each other about the stator. Each magnet has an inner portion and an outer portion. The inner portion is radially closer to the rotor than the outer portion. The inner and outer portions are of different material or shape from each other.
The present invention relates to an insulating composition comprising a polyethylene polymer or copolymer thereof, a cross-linking agent, and a nucleating agent and optionally a filler. The amount of cross-linking agent is between 0.1 and 2.0 wt% and the amount of nucleating agent is between 0.01 and 0.5 wt% calculated on the weight of the polyethylene polymer or copolymer thereof and the nucleating agent comprises 40-80 wt% calcium cyclo-dicarboxylate and 20-60 wt% zinc stearate calculated on the weight of the nucleating agent and the filler is present in the amount of up to 10 wt% calculated on the total weight of the composition. The invention further relates to a method for preparing said insulating composition. The invention also relates to a use of the insulating composition for reducing conductivity in insulation material and to insulation material and electrical power application comprising the insulating composition.
H01B 3/44 - Isolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques matières plastiquesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques résinesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques cires résines vinyliquesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques matières plastiquesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques résinesIsolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques composés principalement de substances organiques cires résines acryliques
C08L 23/04 - Homopolymères ou copolymères de l'éthylène
87.
INSULATION SYSTEM FOR HVDC ELECTRICAL INSULATION AND AN HVDC DEVICE HAVING AN INSULATION SYSTEM FOR HVDC ELECTRICAL INSULATION
The present invention relates to an insulation system (120) including at least two insulation layers (110): at least one insulation layer (110) formed from a first material; and at least one insulation layer formed from a second material, where the conductivity of the second material is higher than the conductivity of the first material. The fraction of the total thickness of the insulation system that is formed by the at least one insulation layer of the first material falls within the range of 0.40 -0.75.
H01B 3/00 - Isolateurs ou corps isolants caractérisés par le matériau isolantEmploi de matériaux spécifiés pour leurs propriétés isolantes ou diélectriques
88.
STORING OPERATIONAL DATA OF AN INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM Storing operational data of an industrial control syste
A method for storing operational data 28 of an industrial control system 12 comprises the steps of: receiving operational data 28 of the industrial control system 12; encoding the operational data 28 with an encoding function;storing the encoded operational data 30 in a database 38; receiving a database query;transforming the database query into a transformed database query compatible with the encoding function;receiving encoded query data 32 by executing the transformed database query on the encoded operational data 30 in the database 38;and decoding the encoded query data 32 with a decoding function.
H04L 9/00 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégéesProtocoles réseaux de sécurité
G06F 17/30 - Recherche documentaire; Structures de bases de données à cet effet
G06F 21/00 - Dispositions de sécurité pour protéger les calculateurs, leurs composants, les programmes ou les données contre une activité non autorisée
G06F 21/62 - Protection de l’accès à des données via une plate-forme, p. ex. par clés ou règles de contrôle de l’accès
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DETERMINING THE NETWORK TOPOLOGY OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK
The invention relates to a network management agent, device, module or computer program product for determining the network topology of a communication network (1) based on at least one neighbor network or end device identity (20, 21, 30, 40) and corresponding network link (11, 12, 13, 14) communication delay collected from, determined by, and stored in a Management Information Base of, at least one first network device (10) of the communication network. Neighbor identities and communication delays are preferably determined by reverting to the IEEE 1588 precision time protocol.
A method for processing operational data 30 of an industrial system12 comprises the steps of: gathering operational data 30 of the industrial system 12 with a control system 18 of the industrial system 12; encrypting the operational data 30 with a homomorphic encryption scheme in the control system 18; sending the encrypted operational data 32 to a data processing system 26 which is adapted to perform a data processing function on the encrypted operational data 32 to generate result data 34; receiving the result data 34 of the data processing function in the control system 18; and processing the result data 34 in the control system 18.
The subject matter described herein includes a magnetic bearing assembly and an arrangement of position sensors for the magnetic bearing assembly. The magnetic bearing assembly includes a rotor (2) for fixedly coupling to a shaft (1) for rotating with the shaft (1). The assembly further includes at least one stator assembly (3) located adjacent to the rotor (2) and circumferentially surrounding the shaft (1). The stator assembly (3) includes a control coil (4) for magnetically supporting the rotor (2). The stator assembly (3) further includes a plurality of position sensors (5) that are circumferentially spaced from each other and that extend radially from the stator assembly (3) for measuring an indication of axial and/or radial displacement of the rotor.
Techniques are disclosed for performing the estimation and/or prediction of the dynamic system state of large power system networks, using a multi-processor approach. More particularly, a large power system network is divided into smaller sub-systems, each sub-system having associated dynamic state variables. Each sub-system is assigned to one or more of a plurality of processing elements, and dynamic state variables for each sub-system are estimated or predicted independently, using the processing elements and sensor measurements. In several embodiments, the dynamic state of each sub-system is computed through the construction of a set of dedicated observers, such as linear parameter-varying (LPV) observers, which are designed to reduce the effects of other sub-systems on the state estimation problem.
G05D 3/12 - Commande de la position ou de la direction utilisant la contre-réaction
G05B 13/02 - Systèmes de commande adaptatifs, c.-à-d. systèmes se réglant eux-mêmes automatiquement pour obtenir un rendement optimal suivant un critère prédéterminé électriques
A power system comprises a power generating plant (100) comprising a plurality of power generators (10), and an AC collection grid (200) adapted to interconnect the power generating plant (100) and an HVDC converter station. The AC collection grid is adapted to operate outside network regulations, whereby advantages such as simplified control and electronics are achieved. A method of operating a power system is also provided.
There is provided a method of remote monitoring of at least two transformers. The method comprises generating, by the at least two transformers, data relating to transformer values of the at least two transformers. The method further comprises acquiring, by at least one server, the generated data. The method further comprises transforming, by the at least one server, the acquired data to a format accessible by a mobile communications terminal. The method further comprises wirelessly accessing the transformed data by the mobile communications terminal. A corresponding computer program computer program product and server are also provided.
G05B 19/042 - Commande à programme autre que la commande numérique, c.-à-d. dans des automatismes à séquence ou dans des automates à logique utilisant des processeurs numériques
H02H 7/04 - Circuits de protection de sécurité spécialement adaptés aux machines ou aux appareils électriques de types particuliers ou pour la protection sectionnelle de systèmes de câble ou de ligne, et effectuant une commutation automatique dans le cas d'un changement indésirable des conditions normales de travail pour transformateurs
The invention relates to a method, inspecting device and computer program product for enabling a user in an industrial plant to inspect an object (24) of the plant. The inspecting device is provided in a mobile terminal equipped with a viewfinder (VF) and being configured to guide the user to the location of the object (24) in the plant, and present a reference image (52) of the object in the viewfinder of the mobile terminal when the location of the object has been reached in order to allow the user to capture an image (54) of the object.
G05B 19/042 - Commande à programme autre que la commande numérique, c.-à-d. dans des automatismes à séquence ou dans des automates à logique utilisant des processeurs numériques
G06K 9/62 - Méthodes ou dispositions pour la reconnaissance utilisant des moyens électroniques
H04W 4/02 - Services utilisant des informations de localisation
The present invention relates to a low voltage contactor (1) for connecting and disconnecting a three-phase load (2) to an electric power including a coil (16), main contacts (12) operated by the coil (10) and an electronic control circuit (20) for controlling voltage supplied to the coil. The electronic control circuit includes a pre-arranged time point selection scheme (22) and is further adapted to select a time point from the pre-arranged time point selection scheme (22) as a time delay, and initiate an instant opening command based on the selected time point.
H01H 9/56 - Circuits non adaptés à une application particulière du dispositif de commutation non prévus ailleurs pour assurer le fonctionnement de l'interrupteur en un point déterminé de la période du courant alternatif
The invention relates to a method of controlling a ship as well as to a ship, where the ship comprises at least one data collecting unit configured to collect operational data of the ship, at least one control computer for controlling an operation aspect of the ship, at least one window (14, 16, 18) facing a view used in the control and at least one actuating unit for actuating a control aspect of the ship, wherein the at least one window (14) comprises a touch screen on which operational data obtained from the data collecting unit is presented and via which a control command can be entered for controlling the ship.
A multilevel voltage source converter (100) is configured to convert a DC voltage at a first and a second DC terminal (113, 114) into an AC voltage at AC phase terminals (115) or vice versa. It comprises at least two phase legs (120), each extending between the DC terminals and comprising an AC phase terminal (115) and a first and a second plurality (110, 116) of switching modules (101) arranged between the AC phase terminal and either DC terminal. The phase leg further comprises at least one harmonics compensator adapted to reduce harmonics in a circulating current in the phase leg, wherein the harmonics compensator comprises an active filter operable to inject current into the phase leg.In different embodiments, the harmonics compensator is arranged in such manner that it injects current in the phase leg or in the AC phase terminal therein.
It is presented method for facilitating control of an industrial process (3) by means of an industrial control system (1). The method comprises receiving (S1) a process variable value for each of a plurality of process variables associated with the industrial process (3), and updating (S2) each of a plurality of graphs being displayed simultaneously on a display device with a respective process variable value,each graph being associated with a respective process variable of the plurality of process variables and each graph having a first coordinate axis representing time and a second coordinate axis orthogonal to the first coordinate axis representing process variable values, to thereby provide simultaneous dynamic process variable value information of the process variables associated with the graphs. A computer program product and an industrial control system are also presented herein.
G05B 19/409 - Commande numérique [CN], c.-à-d. machines fonctionnant automatiquement, en particulier machines-outils, p. ex. dans un milieu de fabrication industriel, afin d'effectuer un positionnement, un mouvement ou des actions coordonnées au moyen de données d'un programme sous forme numérique caractérisée par l'utilisation de l'entrée manuelle des données [MDI] ou par l'utilisation d'un panneau de commande, p. ex. commande de fonctions avec le panneauCommande numérique [CN], c.-à-d. machines fonctionnant automatiquement, en particulier machines-outils, p. ex. dans un milieu de fabrication industriel, afin d'effectuer un positionnement, un mouvement ou des actions coordonnées au moyen de données d'un programme sous forme numérique caractérisée par les détails du panneau de commande ou par la fixation de paramètres
100.
GUIDING A USER TO SAFETY FROM THE PREMISES OF AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT
The invention relates to a method, safety route guiding device and a computer program product enabling users in the premises (45) of an industrial plant (10) to reach safety in case of an emergency, where said users are equipped with mobile terminals (32, 34, 36, 38), where the safety route guiding device comprises a guiding unit (41) that receives alarm data concerning an emergency in a clearance zone (CZ) of the premises, the alarm data being relevant for a user of a mobile terminal (32), obtains data of a set of other users affected by the emergency, guides the user from the clearance zone (CZ) to a security zone (SZ) outside the premises, obtains status data concerning the other users in the set, and presents the status data to the user via the mobile terminal (32).
G08B 27/00 - Systèmes d'alarme dans lesquels la condition déclenchant l'alarme est signalée par une station centrale à plusieurs sous-stations
G08B 7/06 - Systèmes de signalisation selon plus d'un des groupes Systèmes d'appel de personnes selon plus d'un des groupes utilisant une transmission électrique
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