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DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF VSC BASED HVDC

TRANSMISSION LINE FOR CENTRAL ASIA-SOUTH
ASIA POWER PROJECT (CASA-1000)

Presented By : Muhammad Insaf Butt

(171292-MSEE-F17)

INTERNAL EXAMINERS SUPERVISOR EXTERNAL EXAMINER

Dr. Muhammad Adil khan Dr. Tahir Saleem Khattak
Dr. Fida Muhammad Khan

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Contents
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Problem Statement
• Objectives of the Research
• Research Methodology
• Plan of work Schedule
• References

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Introduction
• The Central Asia-South Asia power project, commonly known by the
acronym CASA-1000, is a $1.16 billion project currently under
construction that will allow for the export of surplus hydroelectricity
from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to Pakistan and Afghanistan
• Transmission lines are designed to transmit 1,300 MW of electricity,
with Afghanistan allotted 300 MW of electricity and Pakistan 1000
MW of electricity. Initially, however, Pakistan will receive 700 MW,
while Afghanistan will be supplied 300 MW

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Introduction
 High Voltage (HV) transmission lines are more efficient than Low
Voltage (LV) transmission line
 VSC (voltage source converters) based HVDC systems are force-
commutated with insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)
 VSC converter technology can rapidly control both active and
reactive power independently
 VSC based HVDC is the best option for long underground and
underwater transmission
 With reduced size, cost and improved reliability of Power
Electronics, converters have made HVDC transmission more
widespread.

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Literature Review
• Types of converter
• Total Harmonic Distortion
Converter

Two level Multilevel

Modified Flying Diode Cascaded

Square
PWM Square capacitor clamped Bridges
wave
wave

 Suited for low Power applications  Suited for High power applications
 High Harmonic distortions  Less Harmonic Distortions

 Suited for resistive loads  Useful for all loads

Cont……..
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Comparison

Diode Clamped MLI Flying capacitor MLI Cascaded Multilevel

Inverter
No. of Switches 2*(m - 1) 2*(m - 1) 2*(m - 1)

No. of Clamping diodes (m -1)(m -2) 0 0

No. of Clamping 0 (m -1) * (m -2) / 2 0

capacitors
Number of dc bus (m -1) (m -1) (m -1)/2
capacitors

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Advance Control Strategies
For high performance electrical systems following control
strategies are used by the researchers

• Synchronous reference frame(SRF)

• Direct Torque Control (DTC)

• Finite Set Model Predictive

Control (FS-MPC)

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Synchronous Reference Frame
Uses linear controllers and a Pulse Width Modulator (PWM) to generate the
voltages

Advantages
• Widely applied in power electronics, due to its high performance at both steady
and transient states
• Allows active and reactive power to be decoupled and controlled independently
to achieve a dynamic performance
• Faster dynamic response due to use of the PI current regulator

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Problem statement
• Conventional HVDC transmission employs line-commutated current
(LCC)-source converters with thyristor valves

• LCC converters require a relatively strong synchronous voltage source

in order to commutate

• The conversion process demands high reactive power from filters

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Aims and objectives
• Compensation of Harmonics and reactive power

• Design of inverter

• Controlling power quality in DC transmission lines

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 What is HVDC Transmission?
1. Electricity is taken from an AC power network, converted to DC
2. It is then converted back to AC in another converter station and injected into the
receiving AC network.

HVDC Transmission
Power Plant Fully Controlled Converter

Long Distance

Power Flow

Power Flow
 Block Diagram

HVDC Transmission
Tajikistan Pakistan
Ac VSC Converter Ac
Converter Pakistan
station Controller station

Power Flow

Power Flow

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Research Methodology
• Collecting data of different types of inverters

• Selection of Inverter with reduce cost

• Study of the modulation techniques used for inverter

• Detail analysis of the designed system

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Plan of work Schedule

Time Duration
Activity March April June July
May 2019
2019 2019 2019 2019

Literature review
Modeling and analysis
Simulation and results
Compilation of research
Thesis write up and submission

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References:
1) Nikolas Flourentzou, Student Member, IEEE, Vassilios G. Agelidis,
Senior Member, IEEE, “VSC-Based HVDC Power Transmission
Systems: An Overview,” IEEE transactions on power electronics,
VOL. 24, NO. 3, March 2009
2) Shri harsha J, Shilpa G N, Ramesh.E, Dayananda L N, Nataraja.C L,
“Voltage Source Converter Based HVDC Transmission,” VOL. 1,
2012.
3) Antonio Luque, Olimpo Anaya-Lara,William d Leithead, GrainP.
Adam, “Coordinated control for wind turbine and VSC-HVDC
transmission to enhance FRT capability,” VOL. 1, 2013
4) Wenyuan Wang, Student Member, IEEE, Antony Beddard, Student
Member, IEEE, “Analysis of Active Power Control for VSC–HVDC”,
IEEE transactions on power delivery, VOL. 29, NO. 4, August 2014
5) Guanglu Wu, Student Member, IEEE, Jun Liang, Senior Member,
CSEE, Senior Member, IEEE, “Analysis and Design of Vector Control
for VSC-HVDC Connected to Weak Grids”, CSEE journal of power
and energy systems, VOL. 3, NO. 2, JUNE 2017

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THANK YOU!
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