Industrial/PhD Course: An Introduction to HVDC and Flexible AC Power Transmission
- Time
- Monday 26. March 2012 at 8:30 - Thursday 29. March 2012 at 17:00
This course covers two very important applications of power electronics in the modern power system – High Voltage DC transmission and Flexible AC power transmission.
High voltage DC transmission has been used worldwide to transmit bulk power over long distances. Recently the VSC-HVDC has been introduced for the applications in the connection of relatively weak grids. Modular multilevel converters based HVDC (MMC-HVDC) is the latest development in the HVDC transmission technology. MMC-HVDC will be the backbone for the proposed offshore DC super-grids.
Flexible AC transmission technology refers to the application of power electronics in the power system which would allow the control series or shunt compensation techniques or their combination. Power electronic switches may also be used to switch passive devices like the shunt capacitors or the reactors.
A detailed description of these two topics and their analyses will be presented. The course will include lectures and simulation exercises. Simulation tools like PSCAD-EMTDC, and DigSILENT will be used to demonstrate these applications. Real time digital simulation (RTDS) will be used to demonstrate the real time simulation of VSC-converter operating as a STATCOM or the HVDC converter in power system.
Main topics are:
• Classic HVDC transmission (LCC HVDC) for the bulk power transmission over long distances, Introduction, operation and control
• VSC-HVDC transmission for the connection of relatively weak grids, and grid connection of renewable energy sources - Introduction, operation and control
• Evolution of Modular Multi-level converters and MMC-HVDC - Introduction, operation and control
• Theory of reactive power compensation in power systems
• Power converters and FACTS devices
• Shunt compensating devices SVC, STATCOM- introduction, operation and control
Organizer: Sanjay K Chaudhary, skc@et.aau.dk, Aalborg University, Remus Teodorescu, ret@et.aau.dk, Aalborg University
Lecturers: Sanjay K Chaudhary, skc@et.aau.dk, Aalborg University, Remus Teodorescu, ret@et.aau.dk, Aalborg University and Massimo Bongiorno from Chalmers University.
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Registration: http://phdcourse.aau.dk/index.php?list=29586
- Host
- Department of Energy Technology
- Address
- Pontoppidantræde 101, 9220 Aalborg East, room 23
- More information
- http://www.et.aau.dk/phd/phd-courses/
- Price
- 6000 DKK for PhD students outside of Denmark and 1500 DKK for PhD students in Denmark, who is not from AAU. 8000 DKK for the Industry.
