Application of ZnO varistor protection to capacitors of artificially commutated inverter in MTDC system

Author

Manohar, Premila ; Chandrasekharaiah, H.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of High Voltage Eng., Indian Inst. of Sci., Bangalore, India

Volume

6

Issue

1

fYear

1991

fDate

2/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

356

Lastpage

363

Abstract

The dynamic analysis of a mesh-type multiterminal HVDC (MTDC) transmission system including an artificially commutated inverter (ACI) with varistor-protected series capacitors is carried out using digital simulation techniques. The study shows that the varistor protection is feasible and improves the performance of normal rated inverters which connect weak AC systems. It reduces the magnitude of the dynamic overvoltage and the peak direct current at the ACI during abnormal conditions, resulting in significantly improved dynamic performance for the MTDC system

Keywords

DC power transmission; commutation; high-voltage engineering; invertors; protection; varistors; ACI; MTDC system; ZnO varistor protection; abnormal conditions; artificially commutated inverter; digital simulation; dynamic overvoltage; dynamic performance; mesh-type multiterminal HVDC transmission system; peak direct current; varistor-protected series capacitors; Capacitors; Equations; Feeds; Inverters; Power harmonic filters; Protection; Transformers; Varistors; Voltage; Zinc oxide;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/59.131083

Filename

131083