Dc current flow controllers for meshed hvdc grids
- Autores: Joan Sau Bassols
- Directores de la Tesis: Eduardo Prieto Araujo (dir. tes.), Oriol Gomis Bellmunt (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2019
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Lie Xu (presid.), Daniel Montesinos Miracle (secret.), Olivier Despouys (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Ingeniería Eléctrica por la Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya
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- Resumen
Meshed High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) grids are seen as solution to transmit and exchange high amounts of power across long distances or using submarine cables with high levels of flexibility and redundancy. Also, they can be especially suitable to integrate offshore energy resources such as offshore wind power plants.
This thesis focuses on the DC Current Flow Controllers (CFC) for meshed HVDC grids. The CFCs are being thought as power electronics based devices that may be installed in future meshed HVDC grids to aid in the current flow regulation. The concept is similar to Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) but applied to HVDC grids.
First, an overview of the different CFC concepts proposed in the literature is presented. Then, the modelling and control of a DC/DC CFC converter is developed and the benefits of installing it in a meshed HVDC grid are analysed. The functionality of the previous CFC is also integrated into a DC Circuit Breaker, in order to have a single device with both capability to interrupt DC faults and provide DC current regulation. Afterwards, an interline DC/DC CFC topology is proposed, which has the advantage of a simplified converter structure. It is validated using dynamic simulations and a prototype is built and tested in a meshed DC grid experimental platform.
A single CFC may not be enough to regulate the current flows in complex meshed HVDC grids, thus, this work also considers the concept of Distributed CFCs (DCFC) in a meshed HVDC grid, which are being operated selectively, allowing more flexibility when regulating the current flows.
Also, multiple lines can be connected to a certain HVDC node. Therefore, the proposed CFC is extended to be connected to any number of HVDC lines and so, be able to control the current circulating through any of them. The obtained multi-port CFC is validated through simulations.
Other devices can help to the current regulation in meshed HVDC grids, for example already installed DC/DC converters that adapt the different voltages of the HVDC systems. A transformerless DC/DC topology is analysed in this work and the design of its AC filter addressed.
Finally, taking into account that some HVDC links based on Line Commutated Converters (LCC-HVDC) are installed near to potential offshore wind power resources, this work studies the operation and control of a Current Source Converter (CSC) based tapping station connected in series with the HVDC link to integrate offshore wind power.
