Design Tools of DC EAF Power Supply Systems For Optimum Reduction of Flicker and Interharmonic Disturbances
Design Tools of DC EAF Power Supply Systems For Optimum Reduction of Flicker and Interharmonic Disturbances
Design Tools of DC EAF Power Supply Systems For Optimum Reduction of Flicker and Interharmonic Disturbances
6400MVA 2300MVA
70MVA 70MVA
13.8 kV
170MVA 170MVA
34.5 kV
60 Mvar
SVC system
2x70 MVA
180 Mvar
SVC system
LF
M
EAF 2 Cycloconverter
2x 10 MW
quality. In fact, the customer is responsible for the at 60 MVA. On each bus-bar, the whole installed
following contract specifications and demands, among reactive power is properly shared on different power
which the most important is reviewed in the following: filter circuits tuned to suitable frequencies; the
equipment performs harmonic current and fixed
n unity average power factor, which is measured capacitive reactive power compensation. Instead,
and monitored at the 345 kV and 161 kV variable reactive power compensation, voltage drop
dispatching substations on a 15 minute elimination, power factor and voltage fluctuation
interval; the compensation equipment has to improvement are performed by Thyrister Controlled
ensure a maximum reactive power fluctuation of Reactors (TCRs), which ensure, at any time, the sum of
± 4 Mvar at the boundary of the high voltage the reactive power of the connected loads and that of
lines the TCRs is equal to the total reactive power of the filter
n voltage fluctuation < 0.30 at substation 56 on circuits.
the 161 kV level and < 0.25 at the Walcott
Substation on a 345 kV level
n voltage imbalance III. INTERACTION BETWEEN THE HARMONIC
n total Current Harmonic Distortion according to FILTERS AND POWER SYSTEM IMPEDANCES
IEEE 519 (1992)
Harmonic filters perform harmonic current
In order to guarantee PCC performance criteria, two compensation providing a low impedance path for the
Static Var compensators have been considered by harmonics to which they are tuned. Complementary to
Ansaldo in the final design; one at the 34.5 kV bus, this desired effect, the total impedance seen by the
rated at 180 MVA and the other at the 13.8 kV bus rated power converters shows also some peak values, which
30
Supply through
Substation 56
20
10
0
0 60 120 180 240 300 360 420 480 540 600
frequency [Hz]
Fig. 2 Upstream impedance seen by the thyristor converters referred to 34.5 kV (undamped filter conditions).
The dotted line and the continuous line represent the supply through Substation 56 and through the
Walcott Substation, respectively.
correspond to the parallel resonances between the only if special provisions are taken jointly with other
supply impedance and the filter impedances. The important parameters of the DC EAF supply system.
frequencies and the peak values of the anti-resonant
conditions are determined by the harmonic filter and the In the next sections we show some tools both in the
supply characteristics, as shown in Fig. 2, where the time-domain and in the frequency-domain, which help to
frequency response of the upstream impedance seen at understand such phenomenon and to optimize the
the 34.5 kV bus is highlighted in the two possible system design in terms of interharmonic and flicker
supply conditions of IPSCO’s DC EAF. attenuation.
1500 -30
1000
-40
500
-50
0
-500 -60
0 100 200 300 400
3.55 -60
3.50 -70
-80
34.5 0 100 200 300 400
time [s]
34.0 (b)
a)
[kA] 36.5 20
36.0
10
3.55 b)
0
3.50
-10
34.5
-20
34.0
-30
1.2 1.25 1.3 1.35 1.4 1.45 1.5
1.4 1.42 1.44 1.46 1.48 1.50
time [s]
time [s]
(b) Fig. 6. Variation of the instantaneous reactive power
Fig. 5. ATP Simulations with Corrective Provisions due to a 10Hz sinusoidal modulation of the arc
(a) line current at the secondary of the voltage calculated with ATP at the primary of
345/34.5kV transformer the MV/LV DC EAF transformer (trace a) and
(b) dc current of a thyristor rectifier at the primary of the HV/MV transformer of the
plant (trace b).
V. FREQUENCY-DOMAIN ANALYSIS
It is worth noting, that the interharmonic disturbances
As an example of the potential of this analysis, Fig. 7 The results and measurements taken at IPSCO’s
shows the module and the phase of the transfer plant site, not reported here, show the effectiveness of
function between the firing angle and the DC currents the adopted provisions.
obtained using the aforementioned analysis. It is worth
noting that both module and phase strongly differ from
the classical design approach especially at the
85
80
Classical design
75
70
65
60
55
10 f [Hz] 100 180
[degree]
150
Classical design
100
50
-100
-150
Fig. 7. Bode diagram of the transfer function between firing angle and dc current; solid line refers to an improved
synchronization scheme, dotted line to an inappropriate conditioning of the synchronization voltage and dashed line to
the classical design approach. All diagrams refer to an undamped harmonic filter condition.
90
85
80
75
70
65
60
10 100 150
frequency [Hz]
phase [degree]
150
100
50
-50
10 100 150
frequency [Hz]
Fig. 8. Bode diagram of the transfer function between firing angle and dc current; solid line refers to the frequency domain
model, while each symbol “o” refers to results obtained with ATP simulations. Results obtained in a 50Hz DC EAF
installation.