Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
  • H02J—CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
  • H02J3/00—Circuit arrangements for ac mains or ac distribution networks
  • H02J3/36—Arrangements for transfer of electric power between ac networks via a high-tension dc link
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
  • Y02E60/00—Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
  • Y02E60/60—Arrangements for transfer of electric power between AC networks or generators via a high voltage DC link [HVCD]

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a plant for transmitting electric power comprising a direct voltage network for High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) and at least two stations connected thereto with line commutated valves with thyristors as rectifying semiconductor components for transmitting electric power between the direct voltage network and alternating voltage networks connected to the stations, in which it comprises at least a cable having an insulating mantle with a polymer base surrounding the conductor thereof for forming the direct voltage network interconnecting the stations, as well as a method for changing the power feeding direction of a plant of this type according to the preamble of the appended independent method claim.
• HVDC High Voltage Direct Current
• An advantage of the use of such a cable for power transmission between stations of such a plant is that it is considerably less costly than cables used before with an inner conductor surrounded by a thick insulating mantle formed by paper soak in oil . It has neither the serious disadvantage of a comparatively large disturbing influence upon nature and living creatures as have air lines where they are arranged.
• cables of the type defined in the introduc- tion which are generally called the PEX-type by the man skilled in the art, are associated with the disadvantage of the known plants of the type defined in the introduction, that they do not allow that the polarity of the cable is changed rapidly, but the cable has to first be discharged, which is a very time consuming procedure.
• FIG. 1 The construction of such a plant already known is schematically illustrated in fig. 1, and this plant has a direct voltage network 1 with a cable 2 schematically indicated having an insulating mantle with a polymer base surrounding the conductor thereof.
• the plant has two stations 3, 4 which are illustrated by the symbol of a current valve 5, 6 each, which they have and which connect the respective station with an alternating voltage network 7, 8 through a trans- former 9, 10 for feeding electric power between the respective alternating voltage network and the direct voltage network. Since the rectifying thyristors arranged in the valves 5 and 6 only are able to conduct current in one direction therethrough, each valve may also only conduct current in one direction between the respective alternating voltage network and the direct voltage network.
• the current direction through the direct voltage cable 2 - will always be from the station 3 to the station 4, and the power feeding direction can only be changed by changing the polarity at the stations with a maintained current direction. This requires as mentioned above a long discharging time, during which no power may be transmitted between the stations .
• the object of the present invention is to provide a plant of the type defined in the introduction, which makes the so-called emergency power regulation mentioned above possible without any requirement of costly arrangements in the form of extra cables or the like, as well as a method for rapidly changing the power feeding direction according to the type defined in the introduction.
• This object is according to the invention obtained by the fact that in a plant defined in the introduction the thyristors of the valves of the station are bidirectionally controlled thyristors (BCT) with ability to conduct current in both directions therethrough, and the plant has a unit adapted to control the thyristors of the valves for changing power feeding direction between the stations by changing the current direction in said cable.
• BCT bidirectionally controlled thyristors
• BCTs Bidirectionally Controlled Thyristors
• the power feeding direction may in a plant of this type simply be changed by gradually reducing the power fed and by that the current in the cable in a normal way to zero, or close to zero, so that the transmission through the direct voltage network is temporarily stopped, whereupon a changed current direction is ordered through said unit, whereupon the current is gradually increased again in the opposite direction so as to obtain a level corresponding to a desired level of the power supply in the other direction.
• the power feeding direction has in this way been changed without changing the voltage polarity of the cable.
• BCTs in the valves instead of conven- tional thyristors, which can only conduct current in one direction, does not result in any considerable extra costs, since they may be built in into the valves on the same places as the conventional thyristors would otherwise have, and no increased insulation distances or large modifications of the control equipment of the stations are required.
• These bidirectionally controlled thyristors are thyristors of the type described in for example DE 44 39 012 Al and are sometimes also called two-direction thyristors.
• the method according to the invention according to the appended independent method claim is directed to the advantageous way just described to take care of a change of the power feeding direction of a plant of this type, and the advantages of this method, which enables a very rapid revers- ing of the power feeding, appear very clearly from the discussion above.
• Fig. 1 is a very schematic view of a plant already known for transmitting electric power between two stations through a cable for conducting High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) , and
• HVDC High Voltage Direct Current
• Fig. 2 is a view corresponding to fig. 1 of a plant accord- ing to a preferred embodiment of the invention.
• the direct voltage network interconnects two stations 13, 14, which are indicated through valves 15, 16 and to each of which an alternating voltage network 17, 18 is connected through a transformer 19, 20.
• the direct voltage network has typically a potential difference of 10-500 kV with respect to earth.
• the valves are in a conventional way formed by for example so called 12 -pulse bridges, in which a number of rectifying semiconductor com- ponents in the form of thyristors are connected in series, since they in turn-off state each can normally only hold 1- 10 kV and the considerably higher voltage across the valves has to be distributed among the different thyristors.
• the thyristors are here formed by so-called BCTs (Bidirectionally Controlled Thyristor) , i.e. bidirectionally controlled thyristors, which are formed by two halves belonging to the same disc connected in antiparallel with each other, so that the thyristors of the valve may through a unit 21 indicated for the valve 15 be controlled for changing the power feeding direction between the stations through changing the current direction through the valve and by that through the cable 12.
• BCTs Bidirectionally Controlled Thyristor
• the power feeding direction between the stations may in the plant according to the invention be changed in the following way.
• the cable 12 has a positive polarity, which means that the power feeding direction therethrough corresponds to the current direction.
• the current is also led in this direction.
• the electric current fed between the stations and by that the power fed in the cable 12 is first gradually reduced to zero, or close to zero, and the power transmission through the direct voltage network is temporarily stopped, whereupon a changed current direction in the cable 12 is ordered through the unit 21 by controlling the thyristors of the two valves so as to change the half turned on.
• the power transmission of the direct voltage network is then started again and the current through the cable, now in the direction from the second station 14 to the first 13, is gradually increased until the desired level of the power fed through the cable in the opposite direction to earlier is obtained.
• the polarity of the cable remains the same all the time, which means that any time con- suming discharging of the cable, during which no power may be transmitted therethrough, is avoided.
• the number of stations of the plant could for example be more than two, and it would also be possible that the direct voltage network is bipolar, and this is dependent on whether the desire of transmitted power may be managed through only one cable, or if two are needed therefor.

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