| Title |
Circulating Current Control in MMC-HVDC Considering Switching Device Current Capacity under Unbalanced Voltage Conditions |
| Authors |
Chun-Sung Kim ; Seung-Hwan Jung ; Jung-Goo Hwang ; Seong-Mi Park ; Sung-Jun Park |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.5207/JIEIE.2016.30.1.055 |
| Keywords |
Circulating Current ; Current Capacity ; MMC-HVDC ; Unbalanced Voltage |
| Abstract |
This paper proposed a new control method which is capable of controlling circulating current considering current capacity of switching device. In the unbalanced voltage conditions, active power and reactive power have double line frequency. Thus, in order to provide active power without ripple, it is necessary to inject the negative sequence current components. However, when the negative current components is injected, it increases the total current flowing in the Arm, and in the Sub-module(SM) the current more than rated is impressed, which leads to destroy the system. Also, in impressing the circulating current reference of each arm, conventional control method impressed applicable in the case of balanced voltage conditions. In the case of unbalanced conditions, as arm circulating current of three phase show difference due to the power impressed to each arm, reference of each arm is not identical. In this study, in the case of unbalanced voltage, within permitted current, the control method to decrease the ripple of active power is proposed, through circulating current control and current limitations. This control method has the advantage that calculates the maximum active power possible to generate capacity and impressed the current reference for that much. Also, in impressing circulating current reference, a new control method proposes to impress the reference from calculating active power of each phase. The proposed control method is verified through the simulation results, using the PSCAD/EMTDC. |