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  2. HVDC converter - Wikipedia

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    Line-commutated converter (HVDC classic) are made with electronic switches that can only be turned on. Voltage-sourced converters are made with switching devices that can be turned both on and off. Line-commutated converters (LCC) used mercury-arc valves until the 1970s, [6] or thyristors from the 1970s to the present day

  3. HVDC converter station - Wikipedia

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    When line commutated converters are used, the converter station will require between 40% and 60% of its power rating as reactive power. This can be provided by banks of switched capacitors or by synchronous condensers, or if a suitable power generating station is located close to the static inverter plant, the generators in the power station ...

  4. High-voltage direct current - Wikipedia

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    The basic building-block of a line-commutated HVDC converter is the six-pulse bridge. This arrangement produces very high levels of harmonic distortion by acting as a current source injecting harmonic currents of order 6n±1 into the AC system and generating harmonic voltages of order 6n superimposed on the DC voltage.

  5. Electrode line - Wikipedia

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    HVDC electrodes are used in most bipolar thyristor-based line-commutated converter (LCC) HVDC transmission systems as a means to improve the reliability of the entire system while also reducing the DC voltage and current ripples. In the event that one of the poles in the bipolar system is faulted, the current path will switch to ground return ...

  6. McNeill HVDC Back-to-back station - Wikipedia

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    This is one of the lowest ESCR values ever achieved with a line-commutated HVDC converter. McNeill was also the first HVDC station to use three-phase, four-winding converter transformers. The transformers, which are connected to 138 kV on the Alberta side and 230 kV on the Saskatchewan side, are each equipped with a 25 kV tertiary winding (to ...

  7. Western HVDC Link - Wikipedia

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    Line commutated converter technology is used at each HVDC converter to maximise the amount of electrical power that can be transferred, which is predominantly exported from renewable sources in Scotland. This type of HVDC conversion technology means that large filter halls are required at each converter station. [10]

  8. Shin-Shinano Frequency Converter - Wikipedia

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    The HVDC back-to-back facility Shin Shinano uses line-commutated thyristor converters. The station houses two converters, one of which opened in December 1977, [ 1 ] the other in 1992. The original 1977 converter was one of the first thyristor-based HVDC schemes to be put into operation in the world and used oil-insulated, oil-cooled outdoor ...

  9. Glossary of power electronics - Wikipedia

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    An AC/DC or DC converter with two directions of DC power flow, associated with two directions of direct voltage and two directions of direct current. free-wheeling arm A by-pass arm containing only non-controllable valve devices. frequency converter An AC converter for changing the frequency. [p] forced characteristic (of a line commutated ...