VSC-HVDC Transmission with Cascaded Two-Level Converters

By B. Jacobson, P. Karlsson, G. Asplund, Lennart Harnefors, T. Jonsson. 2010

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Analysis of Active Power Control for VSC–HVDC (2014, methodology): “The SM capacitance was calculated to give a ripple voltage of 10% [14], and the arm reactors are dimensioned to limit the fault current to tens of amperes per microsecond even for the most critical fault conditions.”
A General Review of Multilevel Inverters Based on Main Submodules: Structural Point of View (2019, unknown): “12) [103]–[106].”
Operation, Control, and Applications of the Modular Multilevel Converter: A Review (2015, background): “The SM capacitor is sized based on the tradeoff between its size/cost and voltage ripple [51].”
Dynamic Averaged and Simplified Models for MMC-Based HVDC Transmission Systems (2013, background): “Circulating currents can be eliminated by using an active control over the ac voltage reference [29] or by adding a parallel capacitor (resonant filter) between the mid-points of the upper and lower arm inductances on each phase [30].”
Efficient Modeling of Modular Multilevel HVDC Converters (MMC) on Electromagnetic Transient Simulation Programs (2011, background): “However, a small ac filter (L-C filter) can be added to the converter ac terminal if the number of voltage levels used is small and all the harmonic requirements are not satisfied for a certain design of MMC based HVDC system [72], [89].”
Review of dc-dc converters for multi-terminal HVDC transmission networks (2016, background): “However experiences from early generations of HVDC links show that the use of series connected IGBTs is limited to ±200 kV [47, 78].”
Experimental Comparison of Model Predictive Control and Cascaded Control of the Modular Multilevel Converter (2015, methodology): “For this specific application, commercial MMCs have been built using a medium to high number of half- or full-bridge submodule converters connected in series [2], [3].”
Harmonic Instability in MMC-HVDC Converters Resulting From Internal Dynamics (2016, methodology): “One method is adding a second-order circulating current hardware filter to the arms [2].”
Modular Multilevel Converters for HVDC Applications: Review on Converter Cells and Functionalities (2015, methodology): “[36] G. Asplund, K. Eriksson, and K. Svensson, “HVDC Light–DC transmission based on voltage sourced converters,” ABB Rev., no. 1, pp. 4–9, 1998.”
Detailed and Averaged Models for a 401-Level MMC–HVDC System (2012, background): “Circulating currents can be eliminated by using an active control over the modulated voltage [27], [28] or by adding a parallel capacitor (resonant filter) between the midpoints of the upper and lower arm inductances on each phase [20].”