Flexible Control of the Interline DC Power Flow Controller Using Virtual Capacitor in VSC-HVDC Grids

Mirhamed Pourmirasghariyan, Mirsajed Pourmirasghariyan, Seyed Saeid Heidari Yazdi, Seyyed Yousef Mousazadeh Mousavi, Kumars Rouzbehi, Gevork Babamalek Gharehpetian

2023

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DOI 10.1109/pedstc57673.2023.10087051

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Abstract

The performance of Interline DC Power Flow Controllers (IDC-PFCs) in Voltage Source Converters (VSC)-based High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) grids, can be affected due to different issues. The current limitation of HVDC lines, the voltage limitation of HVDC buses, and DC voltage of the IDC-PFC intermediary capacitor prevent effective and efficient operation of IDC-PFCs. In this paper, it is shown that this issue can be overcome by using a virtual capacitor in parallel with the IDC-PFC intermediary capacitor. Also, an energy control-based scheme is proposed for the operation of IDC-PFCs in VSC-HVDC grid. The benefits of using the virtual capacitor are: widening the operational area of the IDC-PFCs for the determined duty cycle and injecting more voltage in series to the interconnected HVDC line to control the related HVDC line current. The proposed solution is successfully evaluated on a CIGRE three-terminal VSC-HVDC grid which is modeled by linearized space-state equations.