HVDC Circuit Breakers: A Review Identifying Future Research Needs

By Christian M. Franck. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 2011

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Subfields: Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Technical assessment of load commutation switch in hybrid HVDC breaker (2015, background): “The key equipment for developing the dc grid and dc switchyards is the dc circuit breaker [1], [2].”
Contribution of Fault Current Sources in Multiterminal HVDC Cable Networks (2013, background): “There are several concepts for dc CBs [3], [10], [11], which still have significant drawbacks in terms of onstate losses or speed.”
HVDC Transmission: Technology Review, Market Trends and Future Outlook (2019, background): “converter stations, cables and protection equipment) [10, 38-40], while others provide detailed system-level comparison with other transmission alternatives (e.”
The Hybrid HVDC Breaker An innovation breakthrough enabling reliable HVDC grids (2012, background): “Developing a very fast mechanical HVDC breaker is a demanding task [3].”
Impact of HVDC Transmission System Topology on Multiterminal DC Network Faults (2015, background): “The surge arrestors limit the maximum voltage across the resonant circuit capacitor and the current is commutated to the energy absorbers which bring it down to zero [14], [25], [26].”
A Surgeless Solid-State DC Circuit Breaker for Voltage-Source-Converter-Based HVDC Systems (2014, background): “and several configurations have been considered [5], [12].”
A new HVDC grid test system for HVDC grid dynamics and protection studies in EMT-type software (2015, background): “Due to the time delay and the high rate of rise of the dc fault current, a series reactor is typically provided to limit the rate of rise of the current [19].”
Operation, Control, and Applications of the Modular Multilevel Converter: A Review (2015, background): “Although a solid-state dc CB for HVDC applications has recently been developed, the technology is not sufficiently mature and cost effective [13], [94], [96]–[99].”
Proactive Hybrid HVDC Breakers - A key Innovation for Reliable HVDC Grids (2011, background): “Development of very fast mechanical DC breakers is a demanding task [3].”
Fault Current Interruption in Multiterminal HVDC Networks (2016, background): “H VDCCIRCUIT breakers (CB) are widely considered as a key enabling technology for future multiterminal HVDC (MTDC) networks [1], which have been envisioned in various studies and projects from academia and industry.”