LCC and MMC series-connected HVDC system with DC fault ride-through capability

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10084387-B2
Application number	US-201615522954-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 11, 2016
Priority date	Aug 26, 2015
Publication date	Sep 25, 2018
Grant date	Sep 25, 2018

Abstract

The present invention discloses an LCC and MMC series-connected HVDC system with DC fault ride-through capacity, comprising rectifier and inverter linked by DC transmission line; Both the positive pole and the negative pole of the rectifier and the inverter consist of line-commutated converter and modular converter in series-connection; the modular converter adopts one MMC or several parallel-connected MMCs. The present invention has the advantage of low cost, low power loss and high reliability of the LCC, as well as flexible control, low harmonics and AC voltage support of the MMC. Further, the present invention is able to deal with DC fault by itself, hence additional DC fault clearing equipment is not needed. As a result, the present invention is suitable for the field of long-distance large-capacity power transmission and has broad development potential.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A series hybrid bipolar DC transmission system having a DC fault ride-through capability, comprising:
a rectifier station fault pole commutation unit and an inverter station fault pole commutation unit, both connected by a DC transmission line;

characterized in that:
the rectifier station fault pole commutation unit is used to transform three-phase AC current from a sending system to DC current and further transmits the DC current to the inverter station fault pole commutation unit by the DC transmission line;
the inverter station fault pole commutation unit is used to transform the DC current to three-phase AC current and further transmits the three-phase AC current to a receiving system, both the rectifier station fault pole commutation unit and the inverter station fault pole commutation unit adopt a bipolar structure, comprising a positive commutation unit and a negative commutation unit connected in series, wherein a connecting point between the positive commutation unit and the negative commutation unit is grounded; the rectifier and inverter commutation units consist of line-commutated converter (LCC) and modular multilevel converter (MMC); wherein, one end of the LCC is connected to the DC transmission line, another end of the LCC is connected to one end of the modular converter; and another end of the modular converter is connected to the ground;
wherein the series hybrid bipolar DC transmission system is able to deal with DC fault by a force retard of a LCC at a rectifier side, a unidirectional continuity of a LCC at an inverter side and a blocking of the MMC at both sides;
wherein a firing angle for the force retard of the LCC at the rectifier side is between 135°˜145° while applying a latching control to the modular converter in the rectifier station fault pole commutation unit so that the series hybrid bipolar DC transmission system outputs a negative voltage on the rectifier station fault pole commutation unit to eliminate a fault current provided by the fault pole commutation unit and by the inverter station pole commutation unit due to the unidirectional continuity of a thyristor converter corresponding to the LLC.

2. The series hybrid bipolar DC transmission system according to claim 1 , characterized in that: the modular converter adopts one modular multilevel converter (MMC) or several parallel-connected MMCs; if several parallel-connected MMCs are adopted, the modular converter equips current balance control.

3. The series hybrid bipolar DC transmission system according to claim 1 , characterized in that: a passive filter is connected to a three-phase AC bus of the sending system and the receiving system.

4. The series hybrid bipolar DC transmission system according to claim 1 , characterized in that: positive and negative poles of the rectifier and the inverter connect the DC transmission line through a smoothing reactor.

5. The series hybrid bipolar DC transmission system according to claim 1 , characterized in that: the LCC adopts twelve-pulse bridge converter; each bridge arm comprises several series-connected thyristor valves.

6. The series hybrid bipolar DC transmission system according to claim 1 , characterized in that: the LCC is connected to the sending system through one three-winding transformer of Y o /Y/Δ connection, or two two-winding transformers of Y o /A and Y o /Y connection, respectively; the MMC is connected to the receiving system through one two-winding transformer of Δ/Y o connection.

7. The series hybrid bipolar DC transmission system according to claim 1 , characterized in that:
the MMC adopts a three-phase six-arm structure; an arm consists of several series-connected commutation modules; each of the series-connected commutation modules adopts half-bridge submodule (HBSM); the HBSM consists of two switch tubes (T 1 and T 2 ) and one capacitor; wherein, one end of T 1 and one end of T 2 are connected and form the positive pole of HBSM; another end of T 1 connects one end of the capacitor; another end of T 2 and another end of the capacitor are connected and form the negative pole of HBSM; both control ends of T 1 and T 2 receive external switch signals.

8. The series hybrid bipolar DC transmission system according to claim 1 , characterized in that:
the series hybrid bipolar DC transmission system has three operation modes, namely bipolar current balance mode, monopolar mode with ground return path and monopolar mode with metallic return path.

9. The series hybrid bipolar DC transmission system according to claim 1 , characterized in that:
a rated DC voltage ratio of the LCC to the modular converter is not less than 0.8.

Assignees

• Univ Zhejiang

Inventors

• Xu Zheng
• Wang Shijia
• Xiao Huangqing

Classifications

• H02M5/4585 Primary

  having a rectifier with controlled elements · CPC title

• H02M7/4835

  comprising two or more cells, each including a switchable capacitor, the capacitors having a nominal charge voltage which corresponds to a given fraction of the input voltage, and the capacitors being selectively connected in series to determine the instantaneous output voltage · CPC title

• H02M1/0095

  Hybrid converter topologies, e.g. NPC mixed with flying capacitor, thyristor converter mixed with MMC or charge pump mixed with buck · CPC title

• H02J3/36

  Arrangements for transfer of electric power between AC networks via high-voltage DC [HVDC] links; Arrangements for transfer of electric power between generators and networks via HVDC links · CPC title

• H02M1/325

  with means for allowing continuous operation despite a fault, i.e. fault tolerant converters · CPC title