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Hybrid Design of Modular Multilevel Converters for HVDC Systems Based on Various Submodule Circuits
Abstract
The modular multilevel converter (MMC) has become the most promising converter technology for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission systems. However, similar to any other voltage-sourced converter-based HVDC system, MMC-HVDC systems with the half-bridge submodules (SMs) lack the capability of handling dc-side short-circuit faults, which are of severe concern for overhead transmission lines. In this paper, two new SM circuit configurations as well as a hybrid design methodology to embed the dc-fault-handling capability in the MMC-HVDC systems are proposed. By combining the features of various SM configurations, the dc-fault current path through the freewheeling diodes is eliminated and the dc-fault current is enforced to zero. Several MMC configurations based on the proposed hybrid design method and various SM circuits, that is, the half-bridge, the full-bridge, the clamp-double, and the five-level cross-connected SMs, as well as the newly proposed unipolar-voltage full-bridge and three-level cross-connected SMs, are investigated and compared in terms of the dc-fault-handing capability, semiconductor power losses, and component requirements. The studies are carried out based on time-domain simulation in the PSCAD/EMTDC software environment for various SM configurations and dc-fault conditions. The reported study results demonstrate the proposed hybrid-designed MMC-HVDC system based on the combination of the half-bridge and the proposed SM circuits is the optimal design among all evaluated systems in terms of the dc-fault-handing capability, semiconductor power losses, and component requirements.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Qin, J., Saeedifard, M., Rockhill, A., & Zhou, R.
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
- Published
- 2015-02
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 385-394
- ISSN
- 0885-8977 (ISSN-L)
- 1937-4208
- OpenAlex
- W2091065431
- Cited by
- 358
- References
- 25
- FWCI
- 15.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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