Protection and fault ride-through techniques of VSC-HVDC systems for offshore wind power transmission—Research status, challenges, and prospects

J He, L Xue, B Li, Y Li, E Prieto-Araujo… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2025 - Elsevier
The safe and reliable operation of offshore voltage-source-converter-based high-voltage
direct current (VSC-HVDC) transmission systems poses a significant challenge to the …

Protection of multi-terminal HVDC grids: a comprehensive review

M Radwan, SP Azad - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Multi-terminal HVDC grids facilitate the integration of various renewable resources from
distant locations; in addition, they enhance the reliability and stability of the grid. Protection …

Review of protection and fault handling for a flexible DC grid

J He, K Chen, M Li, Y Luo, C Liang… - Protection and Control of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of power electronics technology, the flexible DC grid will play a
significant role in promoting the transformation and reformation of the power grid. It is …

A pilot protection scheme of DC lines for multi-terminal HVDC grid

Q Huang, G Zou, S Zhang, H Gao - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-terminal HVDC grid has extremely high demand for protection speed of DC lines,
consequently, the sampling time window of the main protection is very short, which affects its …

An improved single-ended frequency-domain-based fault detection scheme for MMC-HVDC transmission lines

Y Zhang, W Cong - International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aiming at the problems currently existing in transmission line protection for modular
multilevel converter (MMC) based high voltage direct current (HVDC) grids, this paper …

A DC line protection scheme for MMC-based DC grids based on AC/DC transient information

Y He, X Zheng, N Tai, J Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of renewable energy, multi-terminal flexible DC grids composed
of modular multilevel converters have been widely used in power systems. To ensure the …

[HTML][HTML] A novel directional pilot protection independent of line parameters and boundary elements for MMC-HVDC grid

J He, Z **e, B Li, Y Li, H Lyu, Y Sheng - International Journal of Electrical …, 2023 - Elsevier
In MMC-HVDC grid, the pilot protection is generally used as the backup protection for dc
line. And in some dc grids, it can be considered as the primary protection, such as in the …

A pilot protection method based on the similarity of initial current traveling wave time-frequency matrix for VSC-HVDC grids

Y Zhang, C Wang, Y Yu - Electric Power Systems Research, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to satisfy the high reliability and high-speed operation requirements of the voltage
source converter based high voltage DC (VSC-HVDC) grids, a pilot protection principle …

A pilot protection scheme of DC lines for MMC-HVDC grid using random matrix

S Yu, X Wang, C Pang - Journal of Modern Power Systems and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The over-current capacity of half-bridge modular multi-level converter (MMC) is quite weak,
which requests protections to detect faults accurately and reliably in several milliseconds …

Fast protection strategy for DC transmission lines of MMC-based MT-HVDC grid

S Wang, L Zhou, T Wang, T Chen… - Chinese Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-terminal high voltage DC (MT-HVDC) grid has broad application prospects in
connecting different energy sources, asynchronous interconnection of power grids, remote …