POWERFACTORY SEMINAR: HVDC & FACTS

Introduction
The training course gives an overview of High-Voltage
Direct Current (HVDC) transmission and Flexible AC
Systems (FACTS). Line-commutated converters (LCCs),
modular multi-level converters (MMCs), static VAR
compensators (SVCs), STATCOMS, thyristor-controlled
series capacitors (TCSCs) and unified power flow
controllers (UPFCs) are addressed. Topologies and
controls, steady-state, harmonic as well as dynamic
behaviour are explained. The participants will learn
how to model these systems in PowerFactory. Practical
use case scenarios are investigated.
This training aims at enabling the participant to
understand modern HVDC/FACTS devices, diligently
analyse a power network including HVDC/FACTS and
identify benefits as well as limitations.

Who should attend

The course is intended to utility engineers, power
system operators, project developers, manufacturers,
consultants and electrical engineers in general,
interested in HVDC, FACTS and their application in
power systems.
The participants should be familiar with the basic
handling of DIgSILENT PowerFactory. Experience with
PowerFactorys time domain and frequency domain
simulation functions is not required.

Program

14:15 Exercise: EMT simulation

Day 1
HVDC systems with LCCs
09:00 Theoretical background

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 AC system strength and its influence

Overview
converter
technologies,
monopoles, bipoles. Basics of linecommutated converters (LCCs). Overview of
studies (load flow calculation, harmonics
analysis, dynamic simulation).

10:00 Exercise: Steady-state model of LCCHVDC in PowerFactory

Implementation of an HVDC model, setting up
power flow setpoint, load flow analysis,
reactive power compensation

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Harmonic mitigation
6-pulse bridge, 12-pulse bridge, typical
harmonic spectra, harmonic filters

11:45 Exercise: Harmonics & Filter

Harmonic load flow analysis, harmonic
mitigation with filters

12:30 Lunch break

13:30 Dynamics
Control schemes for rectifiers and inverters.
Implementation in PowerFactory, firing angle,
extinction angle

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Influence of firing angle on steady-state

operation point, reactive power demand, FFT,
inversion of the power flow direction

Impact on power system oscillations, shortcircuit ratio (SCR) and equivalent short-circuit
ratio (ESCR)

16:15 Exercise: Grid faults

Response to AC system faults, response to DC
system faults

17:00 End of the first day

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Day 2
HVDC systems with MMCs
09.00 Theoretical background
Voltage-sourced converter (VSC), modular
multi-level converter (MMC), modulation
techniques, applications, steady-state control
strategies, models in PowerFactory

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Exercise: Steady-state studies
Implementation of MMC-HVDC links into AC
network models, application: embedded link
in 50 Hz grid, 50 Hz/60 Hz link, offshore link;
load flow analysis, different control strategies

12:30 Lunch break

13:30 Dynamic behaviour
Dynamic control strategies, behaviour during
network faults

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 Exercise: Dynamic studies
Behaviour during network faults

17:00 End of the second day

Day 3
FACTS
09.00 Static VAR Compensator / System (SVC /
SVS), Static Synchronous Compensator
(STATCOM)
Topologies, behaviour, controls, harmonics

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Exercise: SVC
Implementation of a SVC in an AC grid, load
flow analysis, dynamic simulations, harmonic
load flow

11:45 Exercise: STATCOM

Implementation of a STATCOM in an AC grid,
load flow analysis, dynamic simulations

12:30 Lunch Break

13:30 Thyristor-Controlled Series Capacitor
(TCSC)
Topologies, behaviour, controls, overvoltage
protection with surge arresters

14:30 Exercise: TCSC

Implementation of a TCSC in an AC grid,
dynamic simulations (RMS and EMT)

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 Exercise: TCSC continued
Exercise continued

16:00 Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC)

Topologies, behaviour, controls

17:00 End of the training course

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