Modular Multilevel Converter topologies with DC-Short circuit current limitation

Author

Marquardt, Rainer

Author_Institution

Inst. for Power Electron. & Control, Univ. der Bundeswehr Munchen, Munich, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

May 30 2011-June 3 2011

Firstpage

1425

Lastpage

1431

Abstract

Demanding future applications in power transmission and drives like solar-thermic power plants and off-shore wind power require advanced converter systems. Modular Multilevel Converters are well adopted to these needs, owing to industrial scalability, high efficiency and fast dynamic controllability under transient and fault conditions including DC-Side faults. The respective features of the established concepts for the high power range (M2C) and of new concepts for the low power range (MHF) are explained.

Keywords

HVDC power convertors; controllability; fault diagnosis; reliability; short-circuit currents; DC-short circuit current limitation; DC-side fault; drive; dynamic controllability; fault condition; industrial scalability; modular multilevel converter topology; off-shore wind power; power transmission; solar-thermic power plant; transient condition; Capacitors; Circuit faults; Controllability; Limiting; Power transmission; Switches; Topology; DC-Bus fault clearing; HVDC; Modular Multilevel Converter; Multi terminal-HVDC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE & ECCE), 2011 IEEE 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju

ISSN

2150-6078

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-958-4

Electronic_ISBN

2150-6078

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPE.2011.5944451

Filename

5944451