Particular Requirements on Drive Inverters for Safe and Robust Operation on an Open Industrial DC Grid

Today DC offers far-reaching advantages over AC. Therefore, many devices have been equipped with an internal DC link for years. In the field of energy supply, the use of DC technology is also growing and is state of the art e.g. in offshore, high-voltage, automotive and data center applications. The spread of industrial open DC grids is currently starting and is completely different due to the requirements: The DC grid itself and energy flows in an industrial environment are highly dynamic and bidirectional. Due to the low impedance electrical connection of the DC links of many devices, stored energies in fault cases as well as ripple currents during operation place particular requirements on the devices.