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Abstract:
In most power systems around world power demand is increasing due to increase in population and more extreme weathers, to meet this demand more power needs to be transmitted either on same network or to build new lines . Laying new lines is expensive and issues like right of way, politics etc makes this idea it very difficult to implement this idea. Transmitting more power on same lines causes stability issues limiting power transfer as lines gets longer and the lines cannot be loaded to its thermal limits, line loadability can be increased by using power electronics based FACTS devices this paper will discuss the use of power electronics based device to transmit AC and DC current simultaneously on the same line the transmission lines will carry super imposed DC along with AC current. This enhances the power transfer capability and line can be loaded to a very high value if the conductors are allowed to carry AC current along with superimposed DC current. The added power does not cause any transient in stability issues.
Introduction:
The power systems mostly are AC systems, the HVDC systems are now gaining popularity around the world with HVDC systems now operating in Europe, Americas and Asia at some places it is being used to interconnect two systems of same or different frequencies using back to back HVDC converters and at some places it is used to transmit power in EHV lines. This interest is due to availability of high power electronic converters. Recent trends in power systems involving deregulation and restructuring are aimed at separating the supply of electrical energy from the service involving transmission from generations to loads. This can be achived only if the operation of power transmissionis made flexible by introducing fast acting high power electronics devices. This enables quick and accurate control of power flows, voltage profile and improves stability. FACTS controllers enables transmission line to carry more power closer to its thermal rating, this can also be archived by the concept of simultaneous transmission is introduced in the reference [1] and [2]. Before continuing further discussion into simultaneous AC and DC transmission lets have a brief over view of AC and DC transmission and discuss their advantages and short comings.
AC Transmission:
The AC transmission systems are the most common transmission systems, the power flow in AC systems is determined by Kirchhoffs laws. Even though first commercial electricity generated was DC but the difficulty of transmitting it over long distance and the difficulty of transforming DC current paved way for AC networks and AC systems were adopted fast th with the development of transformers, synchronous machine and induction motor in the early 20 century. Even though in AC current transformation is easy but the systems are complicated to understand as their size grows due to many variables involved some short comings of the AC transmission systems are listed below. 1. 2. The power flow in AC transmission is limited due to stability issues, which means that the lines cannot be loaded close to its thermal limits [3] The lack of fast controls in AC systems the system must be operated at a power level below the maximum loading capacity which is itself limited by stability issues, and for keeping systems secure a safety margin is kept for possible contingencies and in some cases an additional reliability margin is also kept for example WECC(Western Electricity Coordinating Council)systems are operated a minimum 5% distance away from maximum loadability point when contingencies are considered.[4] The AC power systems require dynamic reactive power control in order to keep acceptable voltage profiles under varying loads and transient disturbances. The increase in load is accompanied by higher reactive power consumption in line reactance. High surface voltage gradient on conductors has skin effect Corona effect
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DC Transmission
Even though DC transmission was an earlier discovery and first electric power transmission was DC developed by th Thomas Edison in late 19 century, but the technological limitations held the DC transmission back due to lack of availability of high power DC converters and protection devices. One of the earlier long-distance transmission of electric power was demonstrated using direct current in 1882 at the Miesbach-Munich Power Transmission, but only 2.5 kW was transmitted. The work in DC transmission has been done form early 1900s as in 1901 Hewitts mercury-vapor rectifier appeared, the first commercial HVDC transmission was developed in Sewden in 1954 between the island of Gotland and Swedish mainland. After the development of semiconductor devices in 1970s the HVDC systems have gained more interest as high power semiconductor valves became available. Some advantages of DC systems are given below Less right of way cheaper and simpler towers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Low power losses as compared to AC Less corona effect DC lines dont need reactive power compensation Control of power flow using power electronic devices Cheaper solution for long distance transmission DC systems make asynchronous ties between systems possible.
With all its advantages DC systems also have its drawbacks which are listed below 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. High cost of installation of converter stations at each DC link whereas AC systems needs cheaper transformer stations at each link Reactive power requirement for both rectification and inversion Due to presence of switching devices harmonics are generated which requires filtering Costly circuit breakers as braking DC current is difficult Complexity of control
For simultaneous AC-DC transmission some of the AC power is converted into DC power at the sending end and at the receiving end this DC power is converted back into AC power. Figure 1 shows circuit for transmitting AC and DC power simultaneously through a single circuit AC transmission line , the dc current is obtained by the rectifier bridge converter and in injected into neutral point of the zigzag connected secondary of sending end transformer and is reconverted to AC again by the inverter bridge at the receiving end. The inverter bridge is again connected to the neutral of zigzag winding of the receiving end transformer. Each conductor of each line carries one third of the total dc current along with ac current [1-2]. The return path of the dc current is through the ground. Zigzag connected winding is used at both ends to avoid saturation of transformer due to dc current flow and is used as an interfacing device of dc and ac supply. A high value of reactor XD is used to reduce harmonics in dc current [1-2].
Figure 1 AC and DC simultaneous power flow through a single circuit AC transmission line [5] Due to use of ground return path any metallic material may corrode if it comes in its path which limits the use of ground as return path and this uni-polar DC link cannot be considered for practical application. To avoid this short coming a double circuit ac line circuit was introduced in reference 6, the circuit is shown in figure 2 and the equivalent circuit is shown in figure 3. The dotted lines in figure 3 show the path of ac return current only. The second transmission line carries the return dc current Id and each conductor of the line carries Id /3 along with the ac current per phase.
Figure 3 Equivalent circuit of double circuit AC-DC transmission [6] In this circuit also some of the AC power is converted in DC power by a 12 pulse rectifier bridge converter used in conventional HVDC transmission, the DC current is injected in neutral of zigzag connected winding of the sending end transformers in a similar manner of the single line circuit. The DC current is converted to AC by the inverter connected to neutral of the zigzag connected winding of the receiving end transformer. Similar to the single line circuit the DC current is divided equally among the three phases. The three conductors of the second line provide return path for the dc current [6]. In both circuits fluxes created by the dc current which is equally divided among three phases flowing through each of a winding in each limb of the core of a zigzag transformer are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction, the net dc flux at any instant of time becomes zero in each limb of the core. Thus the dc saturation of the core is avoided. A high value of reactor Xd is used to reduce harmonics in dc current. In the absence of zero sequence and third harmonics or its multiple harmonic voltages, under normal operating conditions, the ac current flow through each transmission line will be restricted between the zigzag connected windings and the three conductors of the transmission line. Even the presence of these components of voltages may only be able to produce negligible current through the ground due to high value of reactor [6]. In both of the circuits discussed above the instantaneous value of each line voltage with respect to ground increases by an amount equal to dc voltage added and more discs are to be added in each string insulator to tolerate this increased voltage. However, no change is required in the conductor separation distance, as the line-to-line voltage remains unchanged. Thus there is no need to change the tower structure and insulator strings.
Neglecting ac resistive drop in the line and transformer, the dc current Id, dc power Pdr and Pdi of each rectifier and inverter may be expressed as: Id=[Vdro Cos - Vdio Cos +/* Rcr +Req - Rci ] Pdr = VdrId Pdi = VdiId Reactive powers required by the converters are: Qdr = Pdr tanr Qdi = Pdi tani cosr = *cos + cos( + r)]/2 cosi = *cos + cos( + i)]/2 (8) (9) (10) (11) (7) (5) (6)
i and r are commutation angles of inverter and rectifier respectively and total active and reactive powers at the two ends are: Pst = Ps + Pdr and Prt = PR + Pdi Qst = Qs + Qdr and Qrt = QR + Qdi Transmission loss for each line is: PL = (PS + Pdr) (PR + Pdi) (14) (12) (13)
Let Ia being the rms ac current per conductor at any point of the line, the total rms current per conductor becomes: I = ;
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The net current I in any conductor is offseted from zero. Now allowing the net current through the conductor equal to itsthermal limit(Ith): Ith = (15)
Let Vph be per phase rms voltage of original ac line. Let also Va be the per phase voltage of ac component of simultaneous ac-dc line with dc voltage Vd superimposed on it. As insulators remain unchanged, the peak voltage in both cases should be equal. Vmax = 2Vph = Vd + 2Va (16)
Electric field produced by any conductor possesses a dc component superimpose on it a sinusoidally varying ac component. But the instantaneous electric field polarity changes its sign twice in a cycle if (Vd /Va) < 2 is insured. Therefore, higher creepage distance requirement for insulator discs used for HVDC lines are not required. Each conductor is to be insulated for Vmax but the line-to line voltage has no dc component and VLLmax = 6Va. Therefore, conductor to conductor separation distance of each line is determined only by rated ac voltage of the line. Allowing maximum permissible voltage offset such that the composite voltage wave just touches zero in each every cycle;
(17)
Let us define factor K1 such that K1=dc withstand voltage/rms ac withstand voltage If calculated in straightforward manner for overhead line K1=2 The factor K2 may be defined as; K2 = ac insulation level/rated ac voltage For overhead line K2 2.5 This is because high transient over voltages are possible for ac lines. Similarly for dc side design, a factor K3 may be defined as; K3=dc insulation level/rated dc voltage For overhead line K3 1.7 The actual ratio of insulation level is (ac/dc): K = K1(K2Vph / K3Vd) (18)
Thus converted ac line voltage may be selected a little higher than Va = Vph/2 to have two natural zero crossing in phase voltage (Va) wave cycle. The total power transfer through the double circuit line before conversion is; P total 3Vph Sin1/X
/ 2
(19)
X is the transfer reactance per phase of the double circuit line and 1 is the power angle between the voltages at the two ends. To keep sufficient stability margin, 1 is generally kept low for long lines and seldom exceeds 300. With the increasing length of line, the loadability of the line is decreased. An approximate value of 1 may be computed from the loadability curve by knowing the values of Surge Impedance Loading (SIL) and transfer reactance X of the line.
P total = 2.M.SIL
(20)
Where M is the multiplying factor and its magnitude decreases with the length of line. The value of M can be obtained from the loadability curve. The total power transfer through the simultaneous ac-dc line is Ptotal = Pac + Pdc = 3Va2Sin2/X + 2VdId (21)
The power angle 2 between the ac voltages at the two ends of the simultaneous ac -dc line may be increased to a high value due to fast controllability of dc component of power. For a constant value of total power, Pac may be modulated by fast control of the current controller of dc power converters. Approximate value of ac current per phase per circuit of the double circuit line may be computed as; Ia V(Sin/2)/X The on-line dc current order for rectifier is adjusted as Id = 3 (23) (22)
Preliminary qualitative analysis suggests that commonly used techniques in HVDC/AC system may be adopted for the purpose of the design of protective scheme, filter and instrumentation network to be used with the composite line for simultaneous acdc power flow. In case of a fault in the transmission system gate signals to all the SCRs are blocked and that to the bypass SCRs are released to protect rectifier and inverter bridges. CBs are then tripped at both ends to isolate the faulty line. A surge diverter connected between the zig-zag neutral and the ground protects the converter bridge against any over voltage.
Simulation
AC-DC transmission via double circuit depicted in figure 2 was simulated in MATLABs Simulink using blocks of the powersystem library the Simulink model is shown in figure 5. For the HVDC system 12 pulse converters shown in figure 6 was used rectifier was controlled in constant current control and constant extinction angle control of inverter. Control and Protection System: The control systems of the rectifier and of the inverter use the same Discrete HVDC Controller block from the Discrete Control Blocks library of the SimPowerSystemsExtras library. The block can operate in either rectifier or inverter mode. At the inverter, the Gamma Measurement block is used and it is found in the same library. The Master Control system generates the current reference for both converters and initiates the starting and stopping of the DC power transmission. The protection systems can be switched on and off. At the rectifier, the DC fault protection detects a fault on the line and takes the necessary action to clear the fault. The Low AC Voltage Detection subsystem at the rectifier and inverter serves to discriminate between an AC fault and a DC fault. At the inverter, the Commutation Failure Prevention Control subsystem mitigates commutation failures due to AC voltage dips. A more detailed description is given in each of these protection blocks [9]. AC-DC Transmission: To show the difference in power transfer a base case of pure AC transmission is shown in figure 4 where power is being transferred between two areas connected by a 300KM long line, area one is modeled as a 500KV, 60HZ and 5000 MVA, while area 2 is modeled as a 345KV, 60HZ and 10,000 MVA. Figure 7 shows difference between power transfer between a pure AC system and an AC-DC simultaneous transmission system which shows increment of 65% percent which is a significant gain in the power transmitted, it can also be seen that the magnitude of the voltage in the AC-DC system is high because of the superimposed DC factor.
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Fault Simulation: Circuit for fault simulation is shown in figure 9 1. Fault on Phase A on inverter side The fault occurs at 0.5 seconds and clears at 0.7 seconds the system response is given in the figures to follow
Figure 10 Top Line 1 voltage and Current Bottom Line 1 Active and Reactive Power Form figure 10 it can be seen that the system recovers in 0.3 seconds after the fault is cleared at 0.7 second to pre fault level The reason for this quick recovery is the HVDC system running in parallel with the AC system which gives the system faster response and provide the system with additional damping
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Figure 11 The voltage and current profiles are displayed in figure 11 it can be seen that under fault conditions the DC voltage dips and recovers to pre fault level when the fault is cleared it can be seen in the appendix 1 that voltage on all inverter and rectifier switch dips and then recovers to its Perrault level. While the currents levels spike. An EHV line and on occurrence of a fault the transient response of the system for example the voltage profile or the current or the sudden surge in the reactive power requirement has inherent sluggishness, the system requires a long time to recover. But by using the simultaneous ac-dc model the transient response is increased and hence the transient stability which can be seen in figure 13.
The stability is further enhanced because of quicker current control mechanism of HVDC system that is the rectifier and inverter blocks. The control mechanism consist of a master control that controls and coordinates inverter and rectifier the second level of control and protection in on inverter and rectifier itself which works on VDCOL control procedures. Whenever the voltage dips on occurrence of a fault the current is restricted so the fault current is also decreased and the most significant thing is that it has very small time constant that is it works very quickly, this effect can be seen in figure 12 where it can be seen that the rectifier goes into current mode and tries to limit the fault current while the inverter goes into alpha max mode in order to have certain extinction angle to commutate the valves without failing. After the fault has cleared the rectifier returns to minimum alpha mode to have minimum reactive power requirement and inverter returns to constant current mode to provide load side with a constant current.
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Figure 12 Now the second simulation is for the case when the fault takes a long time to clear so the fault occurs at 2 seconds and it clears at 9 seconds it can be seen form figure 13 that the system recovers well to its pre fault level
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Conclusions:
Simulations show that the added dc power flows well with the AC power, the stability of system is also enhanced by added dc power. A weak system becomes unstable when fault is not cleared quickly but here the DC system provides system with additional damping and control. For the system under consideration it is seen that the maximum power transferred on the line is increased substantially. The advantages of simultaneous AC-DC transmission are obtained without any change insulator strings, towers and arresters of the original line as the line to line voltages remains same.
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References:
[1] Basu K. P. and Khan B. H., Simultaneous ac-dc Power Transmission,Institution of Engineers (India) Journal-EL, Vol 82, June 2001, pp. 32-35. [2] Rahman H. and Khan B. H., Enhanced Power Transfer by Simultaneous transmission of AC-DC: A New FACTS concept IEEE conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, (PEMD 2004). Volume 1, 31 March -2 April 2004, pp. 186191. [3] P. S. Kundur, Power system stability and control, New York: McGrawhill Inc [4] A. Gmez-Expsito, A. J. Conejo and C. A. Caizares, Editors, Electric Energy Systems: Analysis and Operation, CRC Press, July 2008 [5] K. P. Basu Stability Enhancement of Power System by Controlling HVDC Power Flow through the Same AC Transmission Line 2009 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA 2009), October 4-6, 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [6] H. Rahman, and B.H. Khan Power Upgrading by Simultaneous ac-dc Power Transfer in a Double Circuit ac Line, IEEE PES conference, Power India (2006). [7] I.W. Kimbark, Direct Current Transmission, Vol-I, Wiley, New York, [8] K. P. Basu, H. Rahman Feasibility Study of Conversion of Double Circuit ac Transmission Line for Simultaneous ac -dc Power Transmission IEEE PEDS 2005 [9] http://www.mathworks.com/help/physmod/powersys/ug/thyristor-based-hvdc-link.html
Appendix
All Rectifier and Inverter Voltage and currents response under fault condition
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Isw1: Inverter/Inverter/Bridge Y 1000 500 0 -500 -1000 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 -500 0 0.2 0.4 0 500
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Isw3: Rectifier/Rectifier/Bridge D 1000 0 -1000 0 0.5 1 Isw5: Rectifier/Rectifier/Bridge D 1000 0 -1000 0 0.5 1 1000 0 -1000 0 1000 0 -1000 0
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