Simulation and analysis of faults in high voltage DC (HVDC) power transmission

Author

Karthikeyan, Manickam ; Yew Ming Yeap ; Ukil, Abhisek

Author_Institution

Sch. of EEE, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1786

Lastpage

1791

Abstract

Modern civilization depends heavily on the consumption of electrical energy for industrial, commercial, agricultural, domestic and social purposes. However, for the current HVDC system, proper protection devices and logic are not yet as mature as the AC counterpart. This paper presents the fault analysis for the protection of the HVDC (65-765 kV range) grid, using PSCAD. Faults in the DC transmission line are analyzed. This paper also looks into the response of the system to each kind of faults. It is observed that the AC and DC faults have different signatures allowing us to tell them apart. The rise time of the fault current is presented here. Analysis of load changes is also done comparatively with the fault cases.

Keywords

HVDC power transmission; fault simulation; power transmission faults; power transmission protection; AC fault signature; DC fault signature; HVDC power transmission; HVDC protection; PSCAD; fault analysis; fault simulation; high voltage DC power transmission; voltage 65 kV to 765 kV; Capacitors; Circuit faults; Educational institutions; HVDC transmission; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Power conversion; AC faults; DC faults; Fault currents; GTO; HV Transmission; Load change; PSCAD; Rise time; VSC-HVDC; Voltage source converter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2014 - 40th Annual Conference of the IEEE

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2014.7048744

Filename

7048744