UP GRADATION OF EXISTING EHVAC LINE BY COMPOSITE AC-DC TRANSMISSION

ABSTRACT
Recently proposed concept of simultaneous ac-dc power transmission enables the long EHV ac lines to be loaded close to their thermal limits. The conductors are allowed to carry certain amount of dc current uperimposed on usual ac. This paper presents the power up gradation of existing EHV ac line corridor by converting it into composite acdc power transmission line.

This paper presents the feasibility of converting a double circuit ac line into composite acdc power transmission line to get the advantages of parallel acdc transmission to improve stability and damping out oscillations.

 No alterations of conductors, insulator strings or towers of the original line are needed. Master current controller senses ac current and regulates the dc current orders for converters online such that conductor current never exceeds its thermal limit. Simulation study is carried out on MAT Lab SIMULINK software package.

Disadvantages of AC transmission
Problems of inductances and capacitances exist in transmission lines Due to skin effect, more copper is required. Construction of AC transmission lines is more complicated as well as costly Effective resistance of ac transmission lines is increased due to skin effect. I2R Losses more

Advantages of DC transmission
There is no problem of inductance, capacitance and phase displacement which is common in ac transmission. It requires only two conductors, the cost is low As there is no skin effect on conductors, therefore entire cross-section of conductor is usefully utilized thereby affecting saving in material. A dc line has less corona loss and reduced interference with communication circuits.

Composite AC-DC Transmission

In simultaneous ac-dc power transmission system, the conductors are allowed to carry dc current superimposed on ac current. AC and DC power flow independently and the added dc power flow does not cause any transient instability.

Basic Scheme for Composite ac-dc Transmission

SELECTION OF TRANSMISSION VOLTAGE

The instantaneous value of each conductor voltage with respect to ground becomes more in case of simultaneous ac-dc transmission system by the amount of the dc voltage superimposed on ac and more discs are to be added in each string insulator to withstand this increased dc voltage. However, there is no change required in the conductor separation distance, as the line-to-line voltage remains unaltered. Therefore, tower structure does not need any modification if same conductor is used.

POWER UP-GRADATION OF EHV AC TRANSMISSION LINE BY SIMULTANEOUS AC-DC POWER TRANSMISSION

AC, DC, AND TOTAL POWER AT RECEIVING END FOR DIFFERENT TRANSMISSION ANGLES

SIMULATION RESULTS AT 60O TRANSMISSION ANGLE FOR DIFFERENT LINE LENGTHS

SOFTWARES USED
MATLAB- simulation PSCAD power system computer aided design

CONCLUSION
The merits to convert existing double circuit ac transmission line to composite ac-dc transmission line for substantial power upgrading have been demonstrated. For the particular system studied, there is substantial increase in the loadabilty of the line. The loadabilty furtherincreases with increase in the length of line. The line is loaded to its thermal limit with the superimposed dc current. The dc power flow does not impose any stability problem.