Interactions Between Indirect DC-Voltage Estimation and Circulating Current Controllers of MMC-Based HVDC Transmission Systems

Harith R. Wickramasinghe; Georgios Konstantinou; Josep Pou; Vassilios Agelidis

doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2017.2709789

Interactions Between Indirect DC-Voltage Estimation and Circulating Current Controllers of MMC-Based HVDC Transmission Systems

Harith R. Wickramasinghe^*
, Georgios Konstantinou
, Josep Pou
, Vassilios Agelidis

^*Corresponding author for this work

Nanyang Technological University
University of New South Wales

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Abstract

Estimation-based indirect dc-voltage control in MMCs interacts with circulating current control methods. This paper proposes an estimation-based indirect dc-voltage control method for MMC-HVDC systems and analyzes its performance compared to alternative estimations. The interactions between estimation-based indirect dc-voltage control and circulating current control methods, active/reactive power regulation are also investigated. The proposed method delivers similar performance to measurement-based direct dc-voltage control, regardless of the circulating current control method. Steady-state and transient performance is demonstrated using a benchmark MMC-HVDC transmission system, implemented in a real-time digital simulator. The results verify the theoretical evaluations and illustrate the operation and performance of the proposed indirect dc-voltage control method.

Original language	English
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Volume	33
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	829-838
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0885-8950
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2017.2709789
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

Dc-voltage estimation
Dc-voltage control
High voltage direct current
Modular multilevel converter
Real-time digital simulator

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