High frequency oscillation damping for the VSC-HVDC connects to a wind farm via a cable transmission line

Abstract

When a wind farm connects to the grid via a high voltage direct current transmission based on voltage source converter (VSC-HVDC), high frequency oscillation (HFO) is a critical issue that threatens the system stability, this issue has been reported in many HDVC projects all over the world. The current research proved the negative resistance brought by the effect of control delay in VSC-HVDC is a primary cause of instability. This paper ulteriorly analyzes the influence on system stability caused by the long ac cable between the wind farm and the VSC-HVDC, and indicates that the effect of the cable transmission line can contribute to the system instability as well, while the existing damping methods did not consider this effect. Then the control failure of the exiting damming methods when considering the cable transmission line is analyzed and verified by the impedance analysis theory. Thereby, this paper proposed a vector modified resonant controller (VMRC) which can independently and flexibly regulate the magnitude and phase of HVDC impedance, to solve the HFO issue caused by the combined effect of the control delay and the cable transmission line. Also, the design procedure of the proposed control strategy is detailly presented. Finally, experimental results are provided to verify the correctness of the mechanism analysis and the validity of the proposed control strategy.