Anomalous power line carrier signal propagation on the Monopolar Cahora Bassa HVDC lines

Author

Britten, A.C. ; Sibilant, G.C. ; Smith, D.C.

Author_Institution

Resources & Strategy Div., Eskom, Johannesburg, South Africa

fYear

2006

fDate

28-31 March 2006

Firstpage

140

Lastpage

144

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the half-wavelength resonance phenomenon observed in the power line carrier system of the Cahora Bassa ±533 kV HVDC scheme. (Signal injection is achieved by means of differential coupling to the pole conductor and insulated shield wire on each of the two monopolar lines.) By means of the ABCD parameter equations, it is shown how and why the capacitance of the shield wire insulator causes complex resonances over a narrow band of frequencies (in the 350 kHz range) for which the tower spacings correspond to half a wavelength. It is also shown how the histogram of tower spacings for a given line may be used to calculate the total additional attenuation caused by the resonance.

Keywords

HVDC power transmission; carrier transmission on power lines; insulators; poles and towers; resonance; transmission network calculations; -533 to 533 kV; ABCD parameter equation; Cahora Bassa HVDC line; capacitance; half-wavelength resonance phenomenon; histogram; power line carrier signal propagation; shield wire insulator; tower spacing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

AC and DC Power Transmission, 2006. ACDC 2006. The 8th IEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

IET

ISSN

0537-9989

Print_ISBN

0-86341-613-6

Type

conf

Filename

1633630