scholarly journals VSC-HVDC and Its Applications for Black Start Restoration Processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 5648
Author(s):  
Rafael Sanchez Garciarivas ◽  
Diego Rasilla Gonzalez ◽  
Javier Agustin Navarro ◽  
Luis Arturo Soriano ◽  
José de Jesús Rubio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Loss ◽  
Voltage Source ◽  
Voltage Source Converter ◽  
Electric System ◽  
High Voltage Direct Current ◽  
Load Following ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
System Restoration ◽  
Start Process ◽  
Time Decrease

System reliability is a measure of an electric grid system’s ability to deliver uninterrupted service at the proper voltage and frequency. This property of the electric system is commonly affected by critical processes, such as a total blackout. The electric system restoration is a complex process which consists of returning generators, transmission system elements, and restoring load following an outage of the electric system. However, the absence of a generator or unit of black start capabilities may worsen the duration and effects of blackouts, having severe consequences. Black start capability is important as it can reduce the interruption time, decrease the economic loss, and restart the power supply fast and efficiently. In recent years, several works have reported advances about the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology based on the Voltage-Source Converter (VSC) as an attractive and promising technology to increase black start capability. This paper is a review of the current studies of VSC-HVDC as black start power and discusses the advantages and limitations of recent methods. The major points addressed in this paper are as follows: the current theoretical approach of the black start process and the used HVDC technologies, the advantages of VSC-HVDC as black start power, a compressive review of the literature about the black start capabilities using VSC-HVDC technologies, and a description of the main methods recently used to provide an enhancement for restoration processes. Finally, this paper discusses new challenges and perspectives for VSC-HVDC links in order to provide an enhancement for restoration processes.

Real power regulation design for multi-terminal VSC-HVDC systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo-Jie Li ◽  
Si-Ye Ruan ◽  
Tek Lie
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategy ◽  
Control Mode ◽  
Voltage Source ◽  
Voltage Source Converter ◽  
Real Power ◽  
The Real ◽  
Hvdc System ◽  
High Voltage Direct Current ◽  
Power Regulation ◽  
Regulation Functions

AbstractA multi-terminal voltage-source-converter (VSC) based high voltage direct current (HVDC) system is concerned for its flexibility and reliability. In this study, a control strategy for multiple VSCs is proposed to auto-share the real power variation without changing control mode, which is based on “dc voltage droop” power regulation functions. With the proposed power regulation design, the multiple VSCs automatically share the real power change and the VSC-HVDC system is stable even under loss of any one converter while there is no overloading for any individual converter. Simulation results show that it is effective to balance real power for power disturbance and thus improves operation reliability for the multi-terminal VSC-HVDC system by the proposed control strategy.

scholarly journals Research on Serial VSC-LCC Hybrid HVdc Control Strategy and Filter Design Scheme

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 2260
Author(s):  
Fan Cheng ◽  
Lijun Xie ◽  
Zhibing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Reactive Power ◽  
Filter Design ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Voltage Source ◽  
Voltage Source Converter ◽  
Level Control ◽  
Hvdc System ◽  
High Voltage Direct Current ◽  
Design Scheme

This paper investigated the characteristics of a novel type of hybrid high voltage direct current (HVdc) converter, which is composed by line commutated converter series with voltage source converter. The system and valve level control strategies are introduced, which can provide ac system voltage support. A novel filter design scheme composed by resonant filers for hybrid HVdc are also proposed, which can decrease the capacity of reactive power compensation equipment without deteriorate harmonic characteristics. The ac voltage of HVdc fluctuation level caused by transmitted power variation will be effectively reduced, with the coordination between filter design scheme and converter control. In addition, the influence of ac grid strength is also analyzed by equivalent source internal impedance represented by short circuit ratio (SCR). Finally, the +800 kV/1600 MW hybrid HVdc system connecting two ac grids under different SCR cases are studied, and the PSCAD/EMTDC simulation results have validated the effectiveness for proposed strategy.

scholarly journals A Selective Fault Clearing Scheme for a Hybrid VSC-LCC Multi-Terminal HVdc System

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 3554
Author(s):  
Naushath M. Haleem ◽  
Athula D. Rajapakse ◽  
Aniruddha M. Gole ◽  
Ioni T. Fernando
Keyword(s):  
High Capacity ◽  
Voltage Source ◽  
Voltage Source Converter ◽  
Circuit Breakers ◽  
Hvdc System ◽  
Hvdc Transmission ◽  
High Voltage Direct Current ◽  
Clearing Functions ◽  
Transmission Structure ◽  
The Impact

A selective fault clearing scheme is proposed for a hybrid voltage source converter (VSC)-line commutated converter (LCC) multi-terminal high voltage direct current (HVdc) transmission structure in which two small capacity VSC stations tap into the main transmission line of a high capacity LCC-HVdc link. The use of dc circuit breakers (dc CBs) on the branches connecting to VSCs at the tapping points is explored to minimize the impact of tapping on the reliability of the main LCC link. This arrangement allows clearing of temporary faults on the main LCC line as usual by force retardation of the LCC rectifier. The faults on the branches connecting to VSC stations can be cleared by blocking insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) and opening ac circuit breakers (ac CB), without affecting the main line’s performance. A local voltage and current measurement based fault discrimination scheme is developed to identify the faulted sections and pole(s), and trigger appropriate fault recovery functions. This fault discrimination scheme is capable of detecting and discriminating short circuits and high resistances faults in any branch well before 2 ms. For the test grid considered, 6 kA, 2 ms dc CBs can easily facilitate the intended fault clearing functions and maintain the power transfer through healthy pole during single-pole faults.

A Fault Diagnosis Method in VSC-HVDC Simulation System Based on BRBP Neural Networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 860-863 ◽  
pp. 2269-2274
Author(s):  
Hao Yang Cui ◽  
Yong Peng Xu ◽  
Jun Jie Yang ◽  
Jun Dong Zeng ◽  
Zhong Tang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
Voltage Source ◽  
Voltage Source Converter ◽  
Hvdc System ◽  
High Voltage Direct Current ◽  
Current Transmission ◽  
Diagnosis Method ◽  
Dc Current

As the feature of faulty signal in high voltage direct current transmission technology based on voltage source converter (VSC-HVDC) system is complicated to extract and its difficult to carry on the fault diagnosis. On the basis of the PSCAD simulation model of VSC-HVDC system, the DC current faulty signal is analyzed. Then, the wavelet analysis method was adopted to extract the eigenvector of faulty signal, and combined with method of Bayesian regularization back-propagation (BRBP) neural networks, the system fault was identified. The simulation results show that the method is more efficiently and more rapidly than the adding momentum BP neural network on the VSC-HVDC system faults diagnosing.

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