Uncontrolled rectifiers for HVDC connection of large off-shore wind farms

Author

Blasco-Gimenez, R. ; Añó-Villalba, S. ; Rodríguez, J. ; Morant, F. ; Bernal, S.

Author_Institution

Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Modern wind turbines allow for tight control of terminal voltage, this is particularly true for synchronous generator (SG) based wind turbines. Therefore, an integrated design of wind turbine and HVDC link control can lead to a substantial simplification of the off-shore rectifier. This paper introduces an integrated control algorithm for line commutated thyristor (LCT) based HVDC transmission line whereby the off-shore rectifier tap changer is eliminated and a cheaper and more efficient uncontrolled rectifier is used instead of a LCT-based rectifier. The presented control strategy allows for good performance during steady state and transient operation, including on-shore fault ride-through operation.

Keywords

HVDC power transmission; offshore installations; rectifiers; synchronous generators; thyristors; wind turbines; HVDC connection; HVDC link control; HVDC transmission line; integrated control; large off-shore wind farms; line commutated thyristor; synchronous generator; uncontrolled rectifiers; wind turbines; Centralized control; HVDC transmission; Power system transients; Rectifiers; Steady-state; Synchronous generators; Thyristors; Voltage control; Wind farms; Wind turbines; HVDC converters; HVDC transmission control; Permanent magnet generators; Wind power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications, 2009. EPE '09. 13th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4432-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-90-75815-13-9

Type

conf

Filename

5278813