Analysis and mitigation of instabilities originated from dc-side resonances in VSC-HVDC systems
Paper in proceeding, 2015

Instabilities related to dc-side resonances can occur in Voltage Source Converters based HVDC (VSC-HVDC) systems due to undesirable interactions between its dc-transmission link and the VSC dynamics. Previous works have shown that this instability takes place when dc-side resonances coincide with non-passive behavior of one of the VSCs within the VSC-HVDC system, typically, the VSC that controls the direct-voltage. Through Nyquist stability criterion, it is shown in this paper that also the resonance peak of the dc-side resonance has also a negative impact on the instability, i.e. the higher the resonance peak, the greater the risk of instability. Based on the analysis presented in this paper, it is proposed that, around the dc-side resonance frequency, the magnitude of the VSC subsystem transfer function is limited to the inverse of the resonance peak at highest. Finally, time domain simulations show that the proposed measure stabilizes the system.

dc-side resonances

Admittance

dc-side instability

Author

Gustavo Pinares

Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Electric Power Engineering

Massimo Bongiorno

Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Electric Power Engineering

7th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2015, Montreal, Canada, 20-24 September 2015

2329-3721 (ISSN)

5779-5785
978-1-4673-7150-6 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Energy

Subject Categories

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/ECCE.2015.7310471

ISBN

978-1-4673-7150-6

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10/7/2017