Ride-through and recovery method for DC short circuit faults of hybrid MMC-based HVDC system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9627956-B2
Application number	US-201514621368-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 12, 2015
Priority date	Sep 29, 2014
Publication date	Apr 18, 2017
Grant date	Apr 18, 2017

Abstract

A ride-through and recovery method for DC short circuit faults of a hybrid modular multilevel converter based high-voltage direct current transmission (MMC-HVDC) system, the hybrid MMC including multiple full-bridge sub-modules and half-bridge sub-modules, and the method including: 1) detecting whether a DC short circuit fault occurs, and proceeding to step (2) if yes and continuing detecting if no; 2) realizing ride-through of the DC short circuit fault; 3) detecting whether a DC residual voltage increases, and proceeding to step (4) if yes and continuing detecting if no; and 4) realizing DC short circuit fault recovery.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of riding through and recovering from a short circuit fault of a DC side of a high-voltage direct current transmission (HVDC) system, the HVDC system comprising a grid, multiple DC lines, and a hybrid modular multilevel converter (hybrid MMC); the hybrid MMC comprising multiple phases; each phase comprising an upper arm and a lower arm; each of the upper arm and the lower arm comprising a full-bridge sub-module and a half-bridge sub-module; the method comprising:
1) detecting whether the short circuit fault of the DC side of the HVDC system occurs by using the hybrid MMC, and proceeding to 2) if yes and continuing detecting if no;
2) sequentially performing step A) and step B) by using the hybrid MMC to ride through the short circuit fault of the DC side;
3) detecting whether a residual voltage of the DC side increases by using the hybrid MMC, and proceeding to 4) if yes and continuing detecting if no; and
4) sequentially performing step A) and step B) by using the hybrid MMC to recover from the short circuit fault of the DC side;

wherein:
step A) comprises: detecting the residual voltage of the DC side, a three phase AC voltage of the HVDC system, and a three phase AC current of the HVDC system; setting a reactive power required to be injected to the grid by the hybrid MMC during failure of the HVDC system and an active power required to be transmitted by the DC lines; and obtaining an AC voltage reference e iv _ ref required to be output from the each phase of the hybrid MMC according to the reactive power, the active power, the residual voltage of the DC side, the three phase AC voltage of the HVDC system, and the three phase AC current of the HVDC system; and
step B) comprises: calculating a first voltage reference u if _ p of an equivalent voltage source of the full-bridge sub-module of the upper arm of the each phase, a second voltage reference u ih _ p of an equivalent voltage source of the half-bridge sub-module of the upper arm of the each phase, a third voltage reference u if _ n of an equivalent voltage source of the full-bridge sub-module of the lower arm of the each phase, and a fourth voltage reference u ih _ n of an equivalent voltage source of the half-bridge sub-module of the lower arm of the each phase according to the AC voltage reference e iv _ ref , a rated voltage U dc of the DC side, and a ratio m between the residual voltage of the DC side and the rated voltage U dc ; obtaining a switching signal of each of the full-bridge sub-module and the half-bridge sub-module according to a present voltage of the each of the full-bridge sub-module and the half-bridge sub-module, the first voltage reference u if _ p , the second voltage reference u ih _ p , the third voltage reference u if _ n , and the fourth voltage reference u ih _ n , wherein i represents the each phase; and sending the switching signal of the each of the full-bridge sub-module and the half-bridge sub-module to the HVDC system for outputting the AC voltage reference e iv _ ref to the HVDC system.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein
in step B), u if _ p , u ih _ p , u if _ n , and u ih _ n are calculated according to the following equations:
u if _ p =−e iv _ ref (1−½ m )+ U dc ¼ m,

u ih _ p =−e iv _ ref ½ m+U dc ¼ m,

u if _ n =e iv _ ref (1−½ m )+ U dc ¼ m , and

u ih _ n =e iv _ ref ½ m+U dc ¼ m.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein
in step B), u if _ p , u ih _ p , u if _ n , and u ih _ n are calculated according to the following equations:
u if _ p =−½ e iv _ ref −¼ U dc +½ mU dc ,

u ih _ p =−½ e iv _ ref +¼ U dc ,

u if _ n =½ e iv _ ref −¼ U dc +½ mU dc , and

u ih _ n =½ e iv _ ref +¼ U dc .

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein
in step B), u if _ p , u ih _ p , u if _ n , and u ih _ n are calculated according to the following equations:

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Assignees

• Univ Huazhong Science Tech

Inventors

• Hu Jiabing
• Xu Kecheng
• Lu Maozeng
• Zheng Wanning

Classifications

• H02M2001/325

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H02M1/32 Primary

  Means for protecting converters other than automatic disconnection · CPC title

• H02M2007/4835

  Electricity · mapped topic

• 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

• H02J3/12

  Arrangements for adjusting voltage in AC networks by changing a characteristic of the network load · CPC title