Active Fault Current Limiting Control for Half-Bridge MMC in HVDC Systems

Huang, Pengxiang; Shah, Shahil; Vanfretti, Luigi

doi:10.1109/COMPEL52896.2023.10221028

Active Fault Current Limiting Control for Half-Bridge MMC in HVDC Systems

Conference · 23 August 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPEL52896.2023.10221028· OSTI ID:2203226

Huang, Pengxiang; ; Vanfretti, Luigi

DC faults of MMC can result in a significantly large fault current due to the discharge of submodule capacitors. The fault current not only risks damaging the MMC but also demands a considerable breaking capacity from the dc circuit breaker (DCCBs). This paper introduces two novel active fault current limiting methods (AFCLs), namely virtual impedance-based and energy control-based AFCL. The first method utilizes circulating current feedforward, which introduces a virtual arm impedance to suppress the rate of rise of the fault current. Meanwhile, the second method relies on the control of the internally stored energy of the MMC to automatically minimize the number of submodules that discharge during a dc-side fault. Therefore, both the dc-side current and the MMC arm current can be effectively suppressed after the occurrence of the fault. The proposed methods do not require fault detection and their response is proportional to the rate of rise in the fault current. Simulation case studies are presented to demonstrate the proposed methods.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Wind Energy Technologies Office

DOE Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 2203226

Report Number(s):: NREL/CP-5D00-87042; MainId:87817; UUID:ad3aa8e1-e50c-4bfd-a29e-6fec83e6e67a; MainAdminID:70897

Resource Relation:: Conference: Presented at the 2023 IEEE 24th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 25-28 June 2023, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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