Method and device for control of a series-compensated converter station

• US 5,657,213 A
• Filed: 10/03/1995
• Issued: 08/12/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AB (ABB Limited)
• Original Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AB (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Jonsson, Tomas, Bjorklund, Per-Erik
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Peter S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel, Rajnikant B.
• Application Number:
  US08/538,607
• Time in Patent Office: 679 Days
• Field of Search: 363/35, 363/51, 363/37, 363/39, 363/79, 323/102, 323/207, 324/107
• US Class Current: 363/35
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/1807 using series compensators
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/36 Arrangements for transfer of electric power between ac networks via a high-tension dc link
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/7575 for high voltage direct transmission link
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/30 Reactive power compensation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/60 Arrangements for transfer of electric power between AC networks or generators via a high voltage DC link [HVCD]

Abstract

Control equipment (CE2) generates an ordered value (AOL) of a control angle (α) in dependence on a limiting signal (AMAXL), capable of being influenced, for a converter included in a series-compensated converter station. A calculating value (AMARG) of a control angle is calculated continuously according to a predetermined relationship (M0, M1, M2, M3) which at least approximately resembles a relationship according to which, at a commutating margin (γ_m) equal to a preselected value (γ_p), said control angle is a function (F0) of a current (Id2) and a voltage (Un2) in the converter station and the limiting signal is formed in dependence on the calculating value.

Claims

1. A method for control in inverter operation of a series-compensated converter station included in an installation for transmission of high-voltage direct current, the converter station comprising a converter which is controlled by control equipment and which is connected to a three-phase alternating-voltage network by means of series-connected capacitors, comprising the steps of:

the control equipment generating an ordered value of a control angle for valves included in the converter in dependence on a variable limiting signal, continuously calculating a calculating value of a control angle for the converter according to a relationship which at least approximately expresses said control angle as a function of a current and of a voltage in the converter station, at a commutating margin for the valves equal to a preselected value, and forming the limiting signal in dependence on said calculating value of said control angle.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said calculating value of said control angle is calculated according to a relationship which expresses said control angle as a constant value.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said calculating value of said control angle is calculated in dependence on a current, continuously sensed in the converter station, according to a relationship which expresses said control angle as a linear function of said current.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein said calculating value of said control angle is calculated in dependence also on a voltage, continuously sensed in the converter station, according to a relationship which expresses said control angle as a linear function of a quotient between said current and said voltage.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein said calculating value of said control angle is limited so as not to exceed a maximum value and not to be lower than a minimum value.

6. A device for control in inverter operation of a series-compensated converter station included in an installation for transmission of high-voltage direct current, the converter station comprising a converter which is controlled by control equipment and which is connected to a three-phase alternating-voltage network by means of series-connected capacitors, the control equipment comprising a control angle unit for generating an ordered value of a control angle for valves included in the converter in dependence on a variable limiting signal, wherein the control equipment further comprises a calculating unit which continuously calculates a value of a control angle for the converter according to a relationship which at least approximately expresses said control angle, at a commutating margin for the valves equal to a preselected value, as a function of a current and of a voltage in the converter station, and the limiting signal is formed in dependence on said calculated value of said control angle.

7. A device according to claim 6, wherein said calculating unit calculates said control angle according to a relationship which expresses said control angle as a constant value.

8. A device according to claim 6, wherein a measured value of a current, continuously sensed in the converter station, is supplied to said calculating unit, which calculates said control angle according to a relationship which expresses said control angle as a linear function of said measured value of a current continuously sensed in the converter station.

9. A device according to claim 8, wherein a voltage value, formed in dependence on a measured value of a voltage continuously sensed in the converter station, is supplied to said calculating unit, which calculates said control angle according to a relationship which expresses said control angle as a linear function of a quotient between said measured value of a current continuously sensed in the converter station and said voltage value.

10. A device according to claim 6, wherein the control equipment comprises a limiting member, which limits said calculated value of said control angle so as not to exceed a maximum value and not to be lower than a minimum value.