This application claims priority to and is a 35 U.S.C. ยง 371 national phase application of PCT/EP2019/068441, filed Jul. 9, 2019 and claims priority to German Patent Application No. 10 2018 118 068.3, filed Jul. 26, 2018, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
The disclosure relates to an improved circuit assembly which is particularly suitable for use in open-loop and closed-loop control in refrigeration installations.
From DE 10 2015 108 910 D1, an example of a cooling device is known, in particular for cooling components accommodated in a control cabinet. From the prior art, such cooling devices are known, in which the electric components with regard to the voltage supply necessary for the operation are adapted to the electric mains voltages available in the geographic area of use of the cooling device. Thus, for example, it is conventional to offer, for each power stage of a cooling device, a respective variant of a mains voltage of 115 V, 230 V and for 400 V, in order to be able to provide the cooling device to the greatest possible extent worldwide. In addition, various special voltages exist.
In the prior art, the input voltage is rectified, typically using a rectifier, before it is processed. Moreover, a common capacitor is typically connected in the intermediate circuit for the DC supply. This is associated with high costs, since capacitors must have the high nominal voltage of the intermediate circuit. Overall, we have found that the efficiency is unsatisfactory, since, due to the rectifier, additional power loss and waste heat are generated, which means additional expenditure for cooling.
Therefore, the underlying aim of the disclosure is to overcome the aforementioned disadvantages and to create an improved circuit assembly which can be produced cost-effectively and has an improved useful life and which, in particular, contributes toward functionally improving the open-loop and closed-loop control electronics in which the circuit assembly is used.
This aim is achieved by the combination of features according to claim 1.
A fundamental idea of the disclosure consists in using circuit designs which only partially need the rectifier or, to the extent possible, do not need the rectifier at all, i.e., which ensure an efficient intermediate circuit processing for the supply of electronic components by means of an appropriately matched circuit assembly.
Proposed for this purpose according to the disclosure is a circuit assembly for intermediate circuit balancing of an intermediate circuit voltage UZK of a DC intermediate circuit fed by an alternating mains voltage UN for supplying a voltage to one or more devices, comprising
a) a voltage divider configurable in terms of the voltage divider ratio and consisting of a plurality of electric two-terminal devices R1, R2, . . . , R6 by which the intermediate circuit voltage UZK is divided into voltage portions at each two-terminal device,
b) at least one first intermediate circuit capacitor chargeable to a first portion UZK,1 of the intermediate circuit voltage UZK,
c) at least one second intermediate circuit capacitor chargeable to a second portion UZK,2 of the intermediate circuit voltage UZK, wherein a connection line of at least one voltage divider tap of the voltage divider is connected between two two-terminal devices and the at least first and second capacitors in such a manner that the at least two capacitors are chargeable at a predetermined voltage ratio UZK,1/UZK,2.
Here it is particularly advantageous if the at least two capacitors are chargeable at the divider ratio 50/50 or in a freely selectable manner to the intermediate circuit voltage.
In another advantageous embodiment of the circuit assembly, an electronic intermediate circuit processing for processing the intermediate circuit voltage is provided before the voltage divider.
Advantageously, for the voltage processing of the intermediate DC voltage, a DC converter in the form of a flyback converter or boost-buck converter is used.
In a first advantageous embodiment of the disclosure, it is provided that the intermediate circuit processing is implemented as a bridgeless power factor correction circuit (bridgeless PFC).
In an additional advantageous embodiment of the disclosure, it is provided that the intermediate circuit processing is implemented as a power factor correction circuit (interleaved PFC) with a partial bridge.
In a particularly advantageous embodiment of the disclosure, it is provided that, via the configuration of the configurable two-terminal devices, the voltage divider ratio can be freely set for the intermediate circuit capacitors in accordance with a desired, particularly user-specific, required ratio.
It is also advantageous if a galvanic separation is provided between the mains voltage-side input side and the output side of the DC intermediate circuit, which can already occur, for example, by the use of a corresponding flyback converter, in which the energy is transmitted via electromagnetic transformer (for example, coils or inductances) from a primary side to a secondary side of the flyback converter.
An additional aspect of the present disclosure relates to a system for the common voltage supply of the respective output stages of multiple devices with a circuit assembly as described above, wherein the respective DC/AC output stages of the devices are supplied or connected directly or alternatively indirectly via a DC/DC voltage converter with the voltage from the intermediate circuit.
Furthermore, it is advantageous if the system is a cooling system which comprises a refrigeration circuit closed-loop control which is connected to the intermediate circuit of the circuit assembly via a DC converter.
Other advantageous developments of the disclosure are characterized in the dependent claims or represented in further detail below together with the description of the preferred embodiment of the disclosure in reference to the figures. The figures show:
Below, the disclosure is described in further detail in reference to
In
Furthermore, the circuit assembly 1 comprises two intermediate circuit capacitors C1, C2 and namely a first intermediate circuit capacitor C1 chargeable to a first portion UZK,1 of the intermediate circuit voltage UZK (or to the intermediate circuit voltage) and a second intermediate circuit capacitor C2 chargeable to a second portion UZK,2 of the intermediate circuit voltage UZK (or to the intermediate circuit voltage).
The voltage divider SP is in parallel connection with the series connection of the two capacitors C1, C2 between which the voltage node 3 is located. From a voltage divider tap A of the voltage divider SP, between the two-terminal devices R3 and R4, a connection line extends to the voltage node 3 between the first and second capacitors C1, C2.
The circuit assembly 1 moreover comprises, before the voltage divider SP, an electronic intermediate circuit processing 2 for processing the intermediate circuit voltage. In the embodiment according to
In the embodiment according to
Overall,
The DC/AC output stage for the compressor M is connected directly to the voltage from the intermediate circuit. The DC/AC output stages of the pump M and of the fans 1, 2 are connected indirectly via the represented EMC filter 6 by means of the DC converter DC/DC to the intermediate circuit.
The system furthermore comprises a refrigeration circuit closed-loop control K which is connected via the DC converter DC/DC to the intermediate circuit. Also represented is a display 5 for the representation and display of parameters of the refrigeration circuit closed-loop control K or other system data. On the input side, the circuit assembly 1 is connected to the mains voltage UN via an EMC filter 6. With the represented system, in particular the underlying aim of the disclosure and the following advantages can be achieved:
Rectifier losses are minimized or completely eliminated
Less expensive capacitors can be used, since they do not have to have the intermediate circuit voltage level as nominal voltage
Increased useful life due to reduction of the voltage on the capacitor
At least one central low voltage supply for fans, pumps and other components
Monitoring of useful life of individual components is improved/simplified
Increase of functional reliability.
The disclosure is not limited in its implementation to the aforementioned preferred embodiment examples. Instead, it is conceivable that another, further optimized intermediate circuit processing is provided.
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