Protection for AC transmission line between DFIG wind farm and MMC station

Abstract

The characteristics of power electronic controlled sources are reflected at both ends of the AC line applied to the integration of long-distance wind farms into the MMC-HVDC converter station, and the fault characteristics of the system have undergone fundamental changes. For the doubly-fed wind power AC transmission line with a modular multilevel converter, the short-circuit current characteristics provided by the power supply at both ends of the line lead to the inadaptability of longitudinal differential protection. In view of the significant difference in the complexity of the short-circuit current component provided by the doubly-fed wind power and the converter at both ends of the AC transmission line, a line pilot protection idea based on the complexity of the current component is proposed. The complexity of the current component is characterized by singular entropy theory, and then the singular entropy algorithm and its scheme for pilot protection are constructed. A refined electromagnetic transient model of MMC-HVDC for doubly-fed wind farms is built in PSCAD for simulation verification. The simulation results show that the proposed method can quickly and reliably identify various types of internal and external faults, and solve the problem of incorrect action of traditional protection in this scenario. In addition, the scheme is not affected by fault type, location, or transition resistance.