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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Dong Dong, Schenectady, NY (US);
Rixin Lai, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Song Chi, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Ranjan Kumar Gupta, Schenectady, NY (US);
Di Zhang, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A high-voltage DC (HVDC) power system and a method of controlling and protecting the HVDC power system includes a plurality of sending-end (SE) modules coupled in electrical series and a plurality of receiving-end (RE) power converter modules electrically coupled to said plurality of SE modules, the RE modules coupled in a switchyard configuration, the switchyard configuration including a plurality of load branches coupled together in electrical series, each load branch including a branch bypass switch configured to bypass load current around an associated load branch, and a branch protection system.