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HARMONICS AND FILTERS

Book Referred by :

1. HVDC Power Transmission by K.R Padiyar

UNIT 4

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INTRODUCTION

• HVDC converters introduce both AC and DC harmonics which are injected into the ACsystem .

• There are several problems associated with the injection of harmonics are listed below:

• Telephone interference

• Extra power losses and consequent heating in machines & capacitors connected in the S/Y

• Overvoltage's due to resonances

• Instability of converter controls, primarily with Individual Phase Control (IPC) scheme of firing pulse generation

• Interference with ripple control systems used in load management

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GENERATION OF HARMONICS

• Characteristics Harmonics

• Non Characteristics Harmonics

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CHARACTERISTICS HARMONICS

• The characteristic harmonics are harmonics which are always present even underideal operation - balanced AC voltages, symmetric three phase network andequidistant pulses.

• In the converter, the DC current is assumed to be constant.

• In this case, there are Harmonics in AC current of the order

ℎ = 𝑛𝑝 ± 1 -------------------------- (1)

Where, p is the pulse number

n is any integer

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• There are Harmonics in converter DC voltage of the order

ℎ = 𝑛𝑝 -------------------------- (2)

• When reactor smoothing is used then harmonics in the dc current also of the order given by equation 2

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CALCULATION OF CHARACTERISTICS AC HARMONICS

• Consider a 12 pulse converter

• From fig, Neglect over lap, waveform for 𝑖𝐴1and 𝑖𝐴2are shown

• For convenience, the ordinate axis is chosen that the waveform have even symmetry [𝜔𝑡 = 0]

• The waveform has half wave symmetry so that even harmonics are zero

• Hence we can express 𝑖𝐴1 𝑎𝑠,

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• we can express current 𝑖𝐴2 𝑎𝑠,

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• So the magnitude of the characteristics harmonics are shown below

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From the Fourier series analysis of DC voltage waveform, We can obtain

DC VOLTAGE HARMONICS

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NON CHARACTERISTICS HARMONICS

• The harmonics of the order other than the characteristic harmonics are termed as non-characteristic.

• These are due to

(i) Imbalance in the operation of two bridges forming a 12 pulse converter

(ii) Firing angle errors

(iii) Unbalance and distortion in AC voltages and

(iv) unequal transformer leakage impedances.

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• The harmonics produced due to the first cause are termed as residual harmonics.

• These mainly due to the difference in the firing angles in the two bridges which lead to unequal cancellation of the harmonics of order 5. 7, 17, 19, etc.

• The unequal leakage impedances of the two converter transformers feeding the two bridges also lead to residual harmonics.

• The last three causes can lead to the generation of triplen and even harmonics and their analysis is complex

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Effect of Firing Angle Errors

• It is convenient to neglect overlap in the analysis.

• The errors in the firing angles can be due to nature of the control system.

• The equidistant pulse control scheme ideally, has inherent errors except due to thejitter.

• To study the effect of firing angle errors, we will simplify the analysis byconsidering a single Graetz bridge fed from a star/star connected transformer,

• We consider the error 휀𝑗 as the delay in the firing of valve j from the instant

corresponding to the desired value of the firing angle

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• There is no loss of generality in assuming the firing error for valve 1 is zero as theanalysis

• applies to steady state conditions, where it is assumed that the waveform isperiodic with the

• Fundamental frequency of 𝜔. Thus, there are five independent parameters £2, £3,£4. £5, and £6

• To illustrate the analysis. we will consider an example with following data:

휀3 = 휀5 = 0,휀2 = 휀4 = 휀6 = 휀

The waveform of the phase similar to the waveform of 𝑖𝐴1,to analyze the waveform consider the sum of two waveform and the other represents the effect of firing errors

𝑖𝑎 𝑡 = 𝑖𝑎𝑜 𝑡 + ∆𝑖𝑎(𝑡)𝑖𝑏 𝑡 = 𝑖𝑏𝑜 𝑡 + ∆𝑖𝑏(𝑡)𝑖𝑐 𝑡 = 𝑖𝑐𝑜 𝑡 + ∆𝑖𝑐(𝑡)

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By Neglecting Firing angle errors. For the delta given the waveform of ∆𝑖𝑎 , ∆𝑖𝑏 and ∆𝑖𝑐

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Effect of unbalanced voltages

• The presence of the negative sequence component in the AC voltage shifts thezero crossing of the commutation voltages

• With individual phase control (IPC) system. this introduces firing angledissymmetry and results in non-characteristic harmonics.

• With a 5% negative sequence voltage, the third harmonic current generated can beas large as 5% of the fundamental component.

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DESIGN OF AC FILTERS

• The major design objective of AC filters is to reduce the telephone interference.

• This can be measured by any of the following performance indices.

Criteria of Design

Harmonic Distortion

This can be measured in two ways:

𝐼𝑛,𝑍𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸1= Harmonics Current injectedwww.eeecube.com

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The second derivation is

In some cases Harmonics distortion can be defined individual for the single harmonic as

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TELEPHONE INFLUENCE FACTOR

• This is an index of possible telephone interference and is defined as

Where

𝑝𝑛 is the C message weighting used by Bell

Telephone Systems (BTS) and Edison

Electric Institute (EEI) in USA. The

weighting reflects the frequency depends

sensitivity of the human ear and has a

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Telephone Harmonic Form Factor(THFF)

• This is analogous to TIF except that

• Where 𝑊𝑛 is the psophometric weight at the harmonic order n, as defined as thecumulative commission on telephone and telegraph system(CCITT)

• While TIF is used in USA ,THFF is popular in Europe.

• The maximum values of𝑊𝑛 =1.0 at the frequency of 800Hz.

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IT product

• In BTS-EEI system, there is another index called IT product and is defined by

𝐼𝑇 = [

𝑛=1

𝑚

(𝐼𝑛𝐹𝑛)2]1/2

• KIT Product is defined as

𝐾𝐼𝑇 = 𝐼𝑇 100

• Although there are no specific standards in the performance requirements thesuggested values of the above mentioned indices are

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TYPES OF FILTER

• The are basically two types of filter used.

• They are

Passive Filter

Damped filters – Low Q Filters Tuned filters – High Q Filters

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Active Filter

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Resonant frequency

𝜔𝑟 =1

𝐿𝐶

Reactance of the Inductor or capacitor at the resonant frequency

𝑋𝑜 = 𝜔𝑟𝐿 =1

𝜔𝑟𝐶=𝐿

𝐶

• The reactance of the inductor or capacitor at the resonance frequency.

• Note that both filter become identical when R = G = 0. In this case the impedance of the filter is purely reactive becomes zero at ℎ = ℎ𝑟 ,.. where ℎ𝑟. is the order of the harmonic for which the filter is designed.

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• We express the sharpness of tuning in terms of the quality factor (Q) defined as,

𝑄 =𝑋0𝑅𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟

𝑄 =1

𝐺𝑋0for the Damped filter

Note that G is the conductance of the resistor in parallel with the inductor do the damped resistor

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Impedance of single tuned filter

• The impedance (𝑍𝑓ℎ) of the single tuned filter

at the harmonic order ‘h’ is given by

• Where 𝜔 is the fundamental frequency of which can vary with the power system operating conditions.

• A tuned is designed to filter a single harmonics.

• If ℎ𝑟𝜔 = 𝜔𝑟, then obviously

𝑍𝐹ℎ = 𝑅 =𝑋0𝑄𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑚.

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• It is necessary to compute the impedance of the tuned filter as a function of the detuning parameter (del) defined by,

• Considering variations in the frequency (/), inductance (L) and capacitance (C), we can express as

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• It is to be noted that ∆𝐿 can be treated as the error in setting the value of L.

• The variation in C can be due to

• error in the initial setting of C and

• the variation in C due to the temperature dependence of the dieiectric constant.

• We can express 𝑍𝑝ℎ,

• The quantity of inside the brackets in the RHS of ,

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From the above derived value RHS is equal to 2. Thus, We can finally derive

𝑍𝑝ℎ = 𝑅 + 𝑗𝑋02𝛿

= 𝑋0((𝑖𝑛𝑣)𝑄 + 𝑗2𝛿)

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IMPEDANCE OF DAMPED FILTER

• The impedance in a damped filter is not critical, hence we will ignorethe effects variations in the system frequency ,impedance andcapacitance.

• We can express the impedance of the filter as,

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• The variation in the (normalized) magnitude of the damped filter𝑍𝑝ℎ

𝑋0

as the function ofℎ𝑖

ℎ0for three different values of the quality factor Q It

is observed impedance remains practically constant at higherfrequencies.

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Design of Single tuned filter

• Single tuned filter are designed to filter out characteristics harmonics of single frequency

• The harmonics current in filter are given by

𝐼𝐹ℎ =𝐼ℎ|𝑍𝑠ℎ|

|𝑍𝑠ℎ + 𝑍𝐹ℎ|

• The harmonics voltages are given by

𝑉ℎ = 𝐼𝐹ℎ 𝑍𝐹ℎ =𝐼ℎ

|𝛾𝐹ℎ + 𝛾𝑆ℎ|=𝐼ℎ|𝛾ℎ|

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• Basic objective in designing the filter is to select the filter admittance in order to minimize voltage in the harmonics.

• They are two possible representation of system impedance in the complex plane.

• Impedance angle is limited.

• Impedance is limited both in angle and impedance

• The impedance is assumed to lie in the region shown in which R1 and R2 and 𝜃𝑚Obtained in the system characteristics.

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𝑄𝑜𝑝𝑡 =cot 𝜃𝑚 2

2𝛿𝑚

=1 + cos 𝜃𝑚2𝛿𝑚 sin 𝜃𝑚

The corresponding Harmonics voltage 𝑉ℎ is

𝑉ℎ =𝐼ℎ

|𝑌𝑓ℎ + 𝑌𝑠ℎ|

=4𝛿𝑚𝑍0𝐼ℎ1 + cos 𝜃𝑚

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Minimum Cost Tuned filter

• The cost of the reactor and the capacitor which make up the tunedfilter are dependent on their respective ratings.

• The rating of the capacitor is given by

𝑆𝑐 = (𝑉𝑐12 + 𝑉𝑐ℎ

2)𝜔1𝐶

• The rating of the reactor is given by

𝑆𝐿 = 𝐼𝑓12 + 𝐼𝑓ℎ

2 𝜔1𝐿

Where

𝐼𝑓1 =ℎ

ℎ2 − 1

𝑉1𝑍0; 𝐼𝑓ℎ = 𝑥𝐼ℎ

𝑉𝑐1 =ℎ2

ℎ2−1𝑉1 ; 𝑉𝑐ℎ = 𝑥𝐼ℎ𝑍0

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• The reactive power generated by the filter branch at the frequency is

𝑄𝑓 = 𝑉1𝐼𝑓1 =ℎ

ℎ2 − 1

𝑉12

𝑍0Eliminating 𝑍0 in the above equation and sub in the 𝑆𝑐 , 𝑆𝐿 equation we get

The cost of filter is

𝐾 = 𝐴𝑄𝑓 + 𝐵1

𝑄𝑓

Where A and B are the Constants.

When cost of filter is minimum ,so reactive power supply by the filter is at an optimum value

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Design of High Pass Filter

• For Harmonics frequencies of order equal to or higher than 17, acommon second order high pass filter is usually provided.

• By defining the following parameters

ℎ0𝜔1 = 1 𝐿𝐶

𝑍0 = 𝐿/𝐶

𝜎 = 𝑅 𝑍0

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• The following values can be chosen

0.5 < < 2

ℎ0 ≤ 2ℎ𝑚𝑖𝑛Where ℎ𝑚𝑖𝑛 is the smallest value of h to be handled by the filter.

The filter impedance is given by

𝑍𝑓 =𝑍0[𝜎 + 𝑗 ℎ0 ℎ . (𝜎

2 − 1 −𝜎ℎ0ℎ

2

]

1 + (𝜎ℎ0ℎ)2

The reactive power supplied by the filter is

𝑄𝑓 =ℎ0

ℎ02−1. (𝑉12

𝑍0)

If Filtering is improved If Q1

increase So choose ℎ0 is high Its

advantage then six pulse

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Protection of Filters

• The filter is exposed to an overvoltage during switching in and the magnitude.

• The overvoltage is a function of the short circuit ratio (higher with low values of SCR) and the saturation characteristics of the converter transformer.

• During switching in, the filter current (at filter frequencies) can have magnitudes ranging from 20 to 100 times the harmonic current in normal (steady-state) operation.

• The lower values are for tuned filters and higher values are applicable to high pass fillers.

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• These overcurrent must be taken into consideration in the mechanical design of reactor coils.

• When filters are disconnected, their capacitor remain charged to the voltage at the instant of switching.

• If the network frequency deviates from the nominal value, higher currents and losses will result in AC filters. li they exceed the limits, the filters have to be disconnected.

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DC FILTERS • The harmonics in the DC voltage across the converter contain both characteristic and

non-characteristic orders.

• These harmonics result in current harmonies in DC lines and cause noise in telephone circuits.

• The harmonic current generated in the line can be computed from the knowledge of harmonic voltage sources at the converters, smoothing reactor, DC filter and line parameters.

• The effectiveness of the DC filter is judged by one of the following criteria:

1. Maximum voltage TIF on DC high voltage bus

2. Maximum induced noise voltage (INV) in milli voltsfkm in a parallel test line one kilometer away from the HVDC line

3. Maximum permissible noise to ground in telephone lines close to HVDC lines.

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• The second criterion is widely used and involvesthe computation of harmonic currents and themutual impedance which depends upon factorssuch as

• Earth resistivity

• Mono polar or bipolar operation

• Grounder metallic returns.

• Typically INV of 18-20 m\/[km for mono polaroperation is allowed.

• The DC filters are also of single or double tunedtype to filter out 6th and 12th harmonics and a highpass filter for higher order harmonics.

• Computer Programmers are generally used inevaluating the performance of filters anddimensioning them.

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CARRIER FREQUENCY AND RI NOISE

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CARRIER FREQUENCY AND RI NOISE

• HVDC converter stations can produce high levels of electrical noise in the Carrier frequency band from 20 KHz to 490 KHZ.

• They also generate radio interference noise in the mega Hertz range of frequencies.

• However, converters are usually located in buildings which are effectively shielded against electromagnetic radiation.

• PLC- RI filter can be reduced and minimized the impact of noise and elimination of interference with power line carrier communication

• The attenuation requirements of the filters must above the curve shown below

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