Title :
A Unit Arrester Application for HVDC Thyristor Valve
Author :
Kobayashi, S. ; Takahashi, T. ; Yoshino, T. ; Sukehara, M.
Author_Institution :
Toshiba Corporation
Abstract :
As an overvoltage protection for the HVDC thyristor valve a method of connecting a unit arrester to each thyristor is presented. A study was conducted to investigate how far the necessary thyristor series number in the valve could be reduced by this method.
Keywords :
Arresters; Circuits; Converters; Costs; HVDC transmission; Inductors; Protection; Thyristors; Valves; Voltage control;
Journal_Title :
Power Apparatus and Systems, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPAS.1984.318329
