252   Semester - VII                                             EEE
H.V.D.C. TRANSMISSION
                       (Professional Elective-V)
Course Code: 15EE1143                            L    T     P   C
                                                 3    0     0   3
Pre-requisites:
Power Electronics and Power Transmission Engineering.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the Course, the Student will be able to:
CO 1 Analyze different types of DC links
CO 2 Analyze Graetz bridge with and without overlap
CO 3 Describe Converter control characteristics
CO 4 Explain different converter faults and protection
CO 5 Analyze generation of Harmonics and filters
UNIT-I                                                (10 Lectures)
BASIC CONCEPTS:
Comparison of AC and DC Transmission-Economics of power
transmission-Technical performance-Reliability, Application of DC
transmission, Description of DC transmission system-Types of DC
links-Converter station, planning for HVDC transmission, Modern
trends in HVDC technology, Some operating problem, HVDC
transmission based on Voltage Source Inverter.
UNIT-II                                               (10 Lectures)
ANALYSIS OF LINE COMMUTATED HVDC CONVERTERS:
Introduction, Analysis of Graetz bridge – Analysis of two valve
conduction mode, Analysis of two and three valve conduction mode,
relationship between AC and DC quantities-equivalent circuit of
rectifier, Inversion-equation of average direct current and voltage in
terms of β and γ –equivalent circuit of inverter, Analysis of 12 Pulse
converters.
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UNIT-IIII                                               (10 Lectures)
HVDC SYSTEM CONTROL:
Principle of DC link control, Converter control characteristics-,
System control hierarchy , firing angle control-IPC-EPC, current and
extinction angle control Starting and stopping of DC link, power
control.
UNIT-IV                                                 (10 Lectures)
CONVERTER FAULT &PROTECTION:
Converter faults – protection against over current, Over voltages in
a converter station-protection against over voltage in converter station
– surge arresters – smoothing reactors – DC breakers.
MULTITERMINAL DC SYSTEMS:
Potential application of MTDC Systems, Types of MTDC systems,
Comparison of series and parallel MTDC systems.
UNIT-V                                                  (10 Lectures)
HARMONICS & FILTERS :
Introduction, Generation of Harmonics –Characteristics harmonics,
calculation of characteristics AC Harmonics, DC voltage harmonics,
Types of AC filters, Passive AC and DC filters, Active filters.
TEXT BOOK:
   K.R. Padiyar: HVDC Power Transmission System, 2 nd
   Edition, New Age International Publishers, 2012.
REFERENCES:
1. Erich Uhlmann, “Power Transmission by Direct Current,
   Fourth Indian Reprint Springer International Edition, 2012.
2. S Kamakshaiah, V Kamaraju : “HVDC Transmission”,
   1st Edition, Mcgraw Hill Education, 2011.
3. E.W.Kimbark : “Direct Current Transmission”, Wiley
   InterScience, New York, 1971.
4. J Arrillaga, “H.V.D.C Transmission”, Peter Peregrinus Ltd.,
   London UK 1983.
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