Research on Comprehensive Active Current- Limiting Control Strategy Applied in Two-Port MMC-HVDC Transmission System

Aiming at the defect that the current-limiting strategy based on the modular multilevel converter (MMC)-high-voltage direct current (HVDC) system only focuses on the unilateral ac side or dc side, this article proposes a current-limiting strategy that is suitable for both ac-side ground fault and dc-side short-circuit fault. First, for the ground fault on the ac side, the outer loop controller with power state equation and the inner loop controller with passivity-based control (PBC) strategy are used to control it, and the genetic algorithm, which takes the absolute value of the difference between the reference current and the actual current as the fitness function, is used to fit the optimal injection damping parameters for the PBC method. Then, for the short-circuit fault on the dc side, the capacitor discharge duty ratio is introduced on the basis of the equivalent capacitance without considering the voltage drop, and its segmented control is combined with the current-limiting reactors to achieve current-limiting at different fault points. Finally, a two-port +500-kV HVDC transmission system was built on MATLAB/Simulink software, and the effectiveness of the current-limiting method proposed in this article was verified.