Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Nicolas Soellner

Johann Messner

A converter station has two line-commutated converters for energy transmission via a bipolar high voltage direct current transmission line. In a first operating mode of the converter station the two converters are electrically connected in an anti-parallel circuit to the same pole of the high voltage direct current transmission link and one of the converters is operated as a rectifier and the other converter is operated as an inverter in an network. In a second operating mode the two converters are connected to different poles of the high voltage direct current transmission link and both converters are operated as either rectifiers or inverters in the AC network. In both operating modes a station active power exchanged between the converter station and the AC network is controlled by active power specifications for converter active powers which are exchanged between the converters and the AC network.

Power transmission via a bipolar high-voltage DC transmission link

A converter station includes two line-commutated converters for energy transmission through a bipolar high voltage direct current transmission link. The two converters are electrically connected in an anti-parallel circuit to the same pole of the high-voltage direct current transmission link. One of the converters is operated as a rectifier in an AC grid and the other converter is operated as an inverter in the AC grid. A station reactive power exchanged by the converter station with the AC grid is controlled by real power stipulations for converter real powers which are exchanged between the converters and the AC grid. A method for operating the converter station is also provided.

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Erlangen, Germany

Nicolas Soellner