Abstract
Pumped storage power plant has gained a high level of attention in recent years, mainly because of its ability to act as a large-scale energy storage option and to improve power system flexibility. Doubly fed asynchronous machine with the partially rated power electronic converter is adopted in pumped storage plants to provide variable speed operation and improve energy efficiency. This paper summarizes the power converter topologies in large rated variable speed pumped storage plant (VSPSP), also covers the suitability of each converter topology, modulation techniques, and parallel converter schemes. Also, it presents operational issues of the parallel converter system in VSPSP such as the shutdown of the plant due to insufficient converter redundancy and lack of fault-tolerant control schemes, a power outage due to the inadequacy of converter protection system, and unbalanced power sharing due to circulating current. Furthermore, the reliable mitigating/additional techniques are discussed for future research. It concludes that the refinement of these aforementioned issues will provide continuous operation of the plant.
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