Hybrid EMT-TS Simulation Strategies to Study High Bandwidth MMC-Based HVdc Systems

Yuan Liu; Marcelo A. Elizondo; Suman Debnath; Jingfan Sun; Ahmad Tbaileh; Yuri V. Makarov; Qiuhua Huang; Mallikarjuna R. Vallem; Harold Kirkham; Nader A. Samaan

doi:10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281688

Hybrid EMT-TS Simulation Strategies to Study High Bandwidth MMC-Based HVdc Systems

Yuan Liu, Marcelo A. Elizondo, Suman Debnath, Jingfan Sun, Ahmad Tbaileh, Yuri V. Makarov, Qiuhua Huang, Mallikarjuna R. Vallem, Harold Kirkham, Nader A. Samaan

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Abstract

Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) are widely used in the design of modern high-voltage direct current (HVdc) transmission system. High-fidelity dynamic models of MMCs-based HVdc system require small simulation time step and can be accurately modeled in electro-magnetic transient (EMT) simulation programs. The EMT program exhibits slow simulation speed and limitation on the size of the model and brings certain challenges to test the high-fidelity HVdc model in system-level simulations. This paper presents the design and implementation of a hybrid simulation framework, which enables the co-simulation of the EMT model of Atlanta-Orlando HVdc line and the transient stability (TS) model of the entire Eastern Interconnection system. This paper also introduces the implementation of two high-fidelity HVdc line models simulated at different time steps and discusses a dedicated method for sizing the buffer areas on both sides of the HVdc line. The simulation results of the two HVdc models with different sizes of buffer areas are presented and compared.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728155081
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281688
State	Published - Aug 2 2020
Event	2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020 - Montreal, Canada Duration: Aug 2 2020 → Aug 6 2020

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Name	IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
Volume	2020-August
ISSN (Print)	1944-9925
ISSN (Electronic)	1944-9933

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Conference	2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	08/2/20 → 08/6/20

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This paper and the work described were sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) Transformers and Advanced Components (TRAC) under the Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium. The authors would like to thank Dr. Kerry Cheung who leads the DOE TRAC program for providing continued guidance. The authors would also like to thank the contributions of Madhu Chinthavali and Phani Marthi from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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U.S. Department of Energy

Keywords

Buffer area
Electro-magnetic transient
HVdc
Hybrid simulation
Transient stability

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Liu, Y., Elizondo, M. A., Debnath, S., Sun, J., Tbaileh, A., Makarov, Y. V., Huang, Q., Vallem, M. R., Kirkham, H., & Samaan, N. A. (2020). Hybrid EMT-TS Simulation Strategies to Study High Bandwidth MMC-Based HVdc Systems. In 2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020 Article 9281688 (IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting; Vol. 2020-August). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281688

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Hybrid EMT-TS Simulation Strategies to Study High Bandwidth MMC-Based HVdc Systems. / Liu, Yuan; Elizondo, Marcelo A.; Debnath, Suman et al.
2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020. IEEE Computer Society, 2020. 9281688 (IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting; Vol. 2020-August).

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Hybrid EMT-TS Simulation Strategies to Study High Bandwidth MMC-Based HVdc Systems

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