Improved Analytical Model for the Study of Steady State Performance of Droop-Controlled VSC-MTDC Systems

This paper proposes an improved analytical model for the study of steady-state performance of droop-controlled VSC-MTDC systems. When power disturbances occur, such as those imposed by normal changes in power settings and converter outages, the powers of the converters with droop control may hit their limits and hence such converters no longer contribute to power sharing, which should be paid special attention when analyzing the impacts of power disturbances on the performance of multi-terminal HVDC (MTDC) systems. Based on the bisection algorithm and superposition principle, the proposed analytical model provides an easy way to estimate the results of power distributions, dc voltage deviations, and power loss variations of the MTDC system taking converter outage and converter overload into account. Simulations of a modified New England 39-bus system incorporating a four-terminal MTDC system are carried out for validating the proposed analytical model.

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