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mainland and the island Gotland was delivered by ABB in the year of 1954
with the capacity of 20MW, 100kv
DC voltage - 800KV
HVDC IN INDIA
Back-to-Back
HVDC LINK CONNECTING CAPACITY
REGION (MW)
The losses are occurred at various levels are Generating level, transmission
level and distribution level
Monopolar links
Bipolar links
Homopolar links
Multi terminal links
Back-to-back links
Point-to-point links
Monopolar Links
It uses one conductor
The return path is provided by ground or water
Use of this system is mainly due to cost considerations
A metallic return may be used where earth resistivity is too
high
This configuration type is the first step towards a bipolar link
Bipolar Links
It uses two conductors, one positive and the other negative
Each terminal has two converters of equal rated voltage, connected in
series on the DC side
The junctions between the converters is grounded
Currents in the two poles are equal and there is no ground current
If one pole is isolated due to fault, the other pole can operate with
ground and carry half the rated load (or more using overload
capabilities of its converter line)
Homopolar Links
It has two or more conductors all having the same polarity, usually
negative
Since the corona effect in DC transmission lines is less for negative
polarity, homopolar link is usually operated with negative polarity
The return path for such a system is through ground
Multi terminal Links
There are more than two sets of converters like in the bipolar case.
Thus, converters one and three can operate as rectifiers while converter
two operates as an inverter.
Operating in the opposite order, converter two can operate as a rectifier
and converters one and three as inverters
Back-to-Back Links
In this case the two converter stations are located at the same site and no
transmission line or cable is required between the converter bridges.
The connection may be monopolar or bipolar.
The dc-link voltage is regulated by controlling the power flow to the ac
grid.
This system having fast control of the power flow.
Point-to-Point Links
This configuration is called as the point to point configuration, when the
flow and another one acts an inverter which receives that power.
Components of HVDC Transmission
Systems
1. Converters
2. Smoothing reactors
3. Harmonic filters
4. Reactive power supplies
5. Electrodes
6. DC lines
7. AC circuit breakers
Components of HVDC Transmission Systems
Converters
They perform AC/DC and DC/AC conversion
They consist of valve bridges and transformers
Valve bridge consists of high voltage valves connected in a 6-pulse or 12-pulse
arrangement
The transformers are ungrounded such that the DC system will be able to establish its
own reference to ground
Smoothing reactors
They are high reactors with inductance as high as 1 H in series with each pole
They serve the following:
They decrease harmonics in voltages and currents in DC lines
They prevent commutation failures in inverters
Prevent current from being discontinuous for light loads
Harmonic filters
Converters generate harmonics in voltages and currents. These harmonics may cause
overheating of capacitors and nearby generators and interference with
telecommunication systems
Harmonic filters are used to mitigate these harmonics 18
Contd… .
elements.
Introduction
Conventional thyristor device has only the turn-on control; its turn-
off depends on the current coming to zero as per circuit and system
conditions.
With some other types of semiconductor device such as the
of operation.
Self commutating voltage source converter
The direct current in a voltage-sourced converter flows in either
Function of inductor:
Reducing the fault current, this coupling reactance stabilises
the AC current, helps to reduce the harmonic current content and
enables the control of active and reactive power from the VSC.
Types of voltage source converters
1. Two level converter
the use of more advanced switching devices with turn-on and turn-
off capability.
The present self-commutating HVDC technology favours the use of
4. Phase Reactors: The phase reactors are used for controlling both the
active and the reactive power flow by regulating currents through them.
The reactors also function as ac filters to reduce the high frequency
harmonic contents of the ac currents which are caused by the switching
operation of the VSCs. The reactors are usually about 0.15p.u.
Impedance.
5. AC Filters: High-pass filter branches are installed to take care of these
high order harmonics. With VSC converters there is no need to
compensate any reactive power consumed by the converter itself and the
current harmonics on the ac side are related directly to the PWM
frequency. The amount of low-order harmonics in the current is small.
Therefore the amount of filters in this type of converters is reduced
dramatically compared with natural commutated converters.
8. IGBT Valve: The insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) valves used
in VSC converters. These devices having low forward voltage drop and
high switching frequency. A complete IGBT position consists of an
IGBT, an anti parallel diode, a gate unit, a voltage divider, and a water-
cooled heat sink. The gate-driving electronics control the gate voltage
and current at turn-on and turn-off, to achieve optimal turn-on and turn-
off processes of the IGBT.
9. AC Grid: Usually a grid model can be developed by using the
Thevenins equivalent circuit. However, for simplicity, the grid was
modeled as an ideal symmetrical three-phase voltage source.
Comparison of classical HVDC and
VSC-HVDC
Advantages of VSC-HVDC
J11 J12
J = (2)
J 21 J 22
np − 1). For example for the 5-bus problem of Fig According to our
thesis, this matrix will be of the size (7 × 7). The dimensions of the
submatrices are as follows:
J11: (n − 1) × (n − 1), J12: (n − 1) × np, J21: np × (n − 1) and J22: np × np
The submatrices are
∂P2 ∂P2 ∂P2 ∂P2
∂δ V2 V1+ n p
∂δ n
∂ V2
∂ V1+ n p
2
J11 = J12 =
∂Pn ∂Pn ∂Pn ∂Pn
V2 V1+ n p
∂δ 2
∂δ n
(2.1)
∂ V2 ∂ V1+ n p
(2.2)
Step-1: Choose the initial values of the voltage magnitudes |V|(0) of all np
load buses and n − 1 angles δ(0) of the voltages of all the buses except
the slack bus.
Step-2: Use the estimated |V|(0) and δ(0) to calculate a total n − 1 number
of injected real power Pcalc(0) and equal number of real power mismatch
∆P(0).
Step-3: Use the estimated |V|(0) and δ(0) to calculate a total np number of
QvI = − B1I VvI2 − m1aI VvI VoI [ G1I sin(θ vI − θ 0 I − ϕ I ) − B1I cos(θ vI − θ 0 I − ϕ I )]
2
P0 I = (m1a G1I + G swI )V02I − m1aI VvI VoI [ G1I cos(θ 0 I − θ vI + ϕ I ) + B1I sin(θ 0 I − θ vI + ϕ I )]
2
Q0 I = − m1a ( B1I + BeqI )V02I − m1aI VvI VoI [ G1I sin(θ 0 I − θ vI + ϕ I ) − B1I cos(θ 0 I − θ vI + ϕ I )]
VSC 1 2 LTC 1 2
such systems.
The natural idea of connecting dc links together to form the VSC-
HVDC system will quite possibly lead to the emergence of dc grids,
which may profoundly affect the future of the electric power grid.
The new model developed may be extended to power flow analysis
for multiple grids connected through VSC-HVDC links.