PSCAD Based Multi-infeed HVDC System Simulation Validated by a Recorded Fault

More and more high voltage direct current(HVDC) converters are being located in a load area in the Yangtze River Delta Region in China. It's large transmission capacity and intensive placement are hardly seen in other countries. Accurate and reliable study tools and methods are extremely needed for power system engineers and researchers to deal with such problems which were never met before and otherwhere. A novel approach on electromagnetic modeling of alternating current / direct current(AC/DC) system is proposed and simulation is carried out to replay a real AC 3-phase to ground fault on a multi-infeed high voltage direct current(MIHVDC) system. AC system is specially simplified. Dynamic models and real parameters are adopted in main AC/DC equipments concerned and retained. Modeling and simulation are based on the power system computer aided design/electro-magnetic transient in direct current(PSCAD/EMTDC) system software package.Comparisons between simulation results and the records from the fault recorders are studied including both AC and DC quantities.

EMTP-type Program Realization of Krylov Subspace Based Model Reduction Methods for Large-Scale Active Distribution Network

Effective model reduction methods are required to deal with new challenges in active distribution network simulations that are on a large scale and have complicated structures.In the development of advanced electromagnetic transient simulation programs,automated model reduction plays an important role.This paper proposes an automated realization algorithm for the Krylov subspace based model reduction methods of an active distribution network with which the reduced model can be automatically established according to a given threshold of reduction error.The combined state-space nodal analysis framework is employed to apply the automated model reduction algorithm in popular EMTP-type simulation programs.Simulations are performed using PSCAD and a self-developed program to show the feasibility and validity of the proposed methods.

Integrated protection based on multifrequency domain information for UHV half-wavelength AC transmission line

Half-wavelength AC Transmission(HWACT)can improve capability of AC transmission significantly.According to the basic principle of HWACT,the electromagnetic transient model of HWACT is built to analyze the fault transient process of transmission line.Based on fault characteristics of HWACT,the adaptability of traditional protections for transmission lines is analyzed briefly,such as current differential protection,distance protection and over current protection.In order to solve the problems of conventional protection caused by HWACT,a novel integrated protection based on multi-frequency domain information is proposed in this paper,which uses both the power frequency information and transient information.The integrated protection based on multi-frequency domain information takes advantages of power frequency and transient protections,which can not only improve the performance of traditional protection of AC transmission line but also realize fast fault judgment by transient travelling wave protection.