An Equivalent Hybrid Model for a Large-Scale Modular Multilevel Converter and Control Simulations
Modular multilevel converter (MMC) is adopted mainly for high voltage applications with many power blocks per arm. Before commissioning a large-scale MMC application, it is vital to simulate and study internal and system-level dynamics. However, it is challenging to simulate an MMC with many SMs in...
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| author | Mohammed Alharbi Semih Isik Subhashish Bhattacharya |
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| description | Modular multilevel converter (MMC) is adopted mainly for high voltage applications with many power blocks per arm. Before commissioning a large-scale MMC application, it is vital to simulate and study internal and system-level dynamics. However, it is challenging to simulate an MMC with many SMs in EMT simulation tools due to simulation time and computation burden. Therefore, several simplified modeling techniques are proposed to reduce the challenges. Even though the existing models reasonably reduce the computation complexity and simulation time, there are still challenges as the internal dynamics of an MMC cannot be fully captured. On the other hand, the detailed equivalent models capture the internal dynamics, but the simulation complexity and the time increase. Therefore, it is still a need for better, faster, and more accurate simulation models to study the system-level and internal dynamics of an MMC. Therefore, this paper proposes a hybrid simulation model for a large-scale MMC application using a scale-up control structure method. The proposed method is verified in the MATLAB/Simulink simulation tool. Besides, the proposed model is tested and verified at the Real-Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) in a Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) environment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eeb2b4d6fbac4ce4a26e15cff57dac842022-12-22T02:35:07ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110535045351210.1109/ACCESS.2022.31760069777699An Equivalent Hybrid Model for a Large-Scale Modular Multilevel Converter and Control SimulationsMohammed Alharbi0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7634-5724Semih Isik1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0233-8115Subhashish Bhattacharya2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9311-5744Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USAModular multilevel converter (MMC) is adopted mainly for high voltage applications with many power blocks per arm. Before commissioning a large-scale MMC application, it is vital to simulate and study internal and system-level dynamics. However, it is challenging to simulate an MMC with many SMs in EMT simulation tools due to simulation time and computation burden. Therefore, several simplified modeling techniques are proposed to reduce the challenges. Even though the existing models reasonably reduce the computation complexity and simulation time, there are still challenges as the internal dynamics of an MMC cannot be fully captured. On the other hand, the detailed equivalent models capture the internal dynamics, but the simulation complexity and the time increase. Therefore, it is still a need for better, faster, and more accurate simulation models to study the system-level and internal dynamics of an MMC. Therefore, this paper proposes a hybrid simulation model for a large-scale MMC application using a scale-up control structure method. The proposed method is verified in the MATLAB/Simulink simulation tool. Besides, the proposed model is tested and verified at the Real-Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) in a Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) environment.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9777699/EMThybrid modelMMCHVDCsimulationRTDS |
| spellingShingle | Mohammed Alharbi Semih Isik Subhashish Bhattacharya An Equivalent Hybrid Model for a Large-Scale Modular Multilevel Converter and Control Simulations IEEE Access EMT hybrid model MMC HVDC simulation RTDS |
| title | An Equivalent Hybrid Model for a Large-Scale Modular Multilevel Converter and Control Simulations |
| title_full | An Equivalent Hybrid Model for a Large-Scale Modular Multilevel Converter and Control Simulations |
| title_fullStr | An Equivalent Hybrid Model for a Large-Scale Modular Multilevel Converter and Control Simulations |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Equivalent Hybrid Model for a Large-Scale Modular Multilevel Converter and Control Simulations |
| title_short | An Equivalent Hybrid Model for a Large-Scale Modular Multilevel Converter and Control Simulations |
| title_sort | equivalent hybrid model for a large scale modular multilevel converter and control simulations |
| topic | EMT hybrid model MMC HVDC simulation RTDS |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9777699/ |
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