Abstract

With the rapid development of renewable energy, multi-terminal flexible DC grids composed of modular multilevel converters have been widely used in power systems. To ensure the safe and stable operation of a DC grid, this paper proposes a DC line protection scheme for MMC-based DC grids using AC/DC transient information. In the proposed scheme, the difference between the transient voltage root mean square ratios (DTVR) on both sides of the current-limiting inductor of DC lines is used to identify the DC line fault, and the instantaneous zero sequence voltage (IZSV) of the AC side of the converter station is used to discriminate the faulted poles. According to the theoretical analysis result, a fault criterion setting method suitable for faulted pole discrimination is proposed. The proposed scheme is based on local information and tested in a PSCAD/EMTDC model of a four-terminal MMC-based DC grid. The simulation results show that the scheme can fast and accurately identify faults.

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