POWER LOSSES IN VOLTAGE SOURCED CONVERTER (VSC) VALVES FOR HIGH-VOLTAGE DIRECT CURRENT (HVDC) SYSTEMS - PART 2: MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS
International Electrotechnical Committee
FOREWORD
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms, definitions, symbols and abbreviated terms
4 General conditions
5 Conduction losses
6 DC voltage-dependent losses
7 Losses in d.c. capacitors of the valve
8 Switching losses
9 Other losses
10 Total valve losses per HVDC substation
Annex A (informative) - Description of power loss
mechanisms in MMC valves
Bibliography
Provides the detailed method to be adopted for calculating the power losses in the valves for an HVDC system based on the 'modular multi-level converter', where each valve in the converter consists of a number of self-contained, two-terminal controllable voltage sources connected in series.
| Document Type | Standard |
| Status | Current |
| Publisher | International Electrotechnical Committee |
| Committee | TC 22 |
