Protection of nonpermanent faults on DC overhead lines in MMC-based HVDC systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 483-490

  Li, Xiaoqian ^a   Song, Qiang ^a   Liu, Wenhua ^a   Rao, Hong ^b   Xu, Shukai ^b   Li, Licheng ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Electric Power Research Institute of Guangdong Power Grid   (China)

Author keywords

DC fault; fault clearance; modular multilevel converter (MMC); nonpermanent fault; system recovery

Indexed keywords

DC FAULT; FAULT CLEARANCE; MODULAR MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; NONPERMANENT FAULT; SYSTEM RECOVERY;

HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; OVERHEAD LINES;

THYRISTORS;

EID: 84871721107     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2012.2226249     Document Type: Article

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