Characteristics and recovery performance of VSC-HVDC DC transmission line fault

  • Jie Yang
  • , Jianchao Zheng
  • , Guangfu Tang
  • , Zhiyuan He

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Abstract

As a new approach of DC transmission scheme, Voltage Sourced Converter based HVDC (VSC-HVDC) transmits electric energy by connecting rectifier and inverter through DC transmission line, which is the same as LCC-HVDC. However, the fault performance and relevant restart demand are different due to that VSC-HVDC is based on voltage sourced converter. This paper analyzes the mechanism of DC line-to-ground fault and line-to-line fault in VSC-HVDC scheme, and then proposes the recovery demand of temporary faults at overhead line scheme. By establishing an electromagnetic transient model under PSCAD/EMTDC, the performance under DC transmission line transients has been thoroughly investigated. According to the characteristics under simulation, the solutions of key points during recovery process are proposed, which include the grounding design, adopting monopolar topology and modifying the transformer type etc.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC 2010 - Proceedings
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
EventAsia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC 2010 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 28 Mar 201031 Mar 2010

Publication series

NameAsia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC
ISSN (Print)2157-4839
ISSN (Electronic)2157-4847

Conference

ConferenceAsia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period28/03/1031/03/10

Keywords

  • Bipolar transmission system
  • DC transmission line
  • Fault recovery
  • Grounding design
  • Monopolar transmission system
  • VSC-HVDC

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