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High voltage direct current transmission / Jos Arrillaga.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arrillaga, J.
- Series:
- Power and Energy
- IEE power and energy series ; 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electric power transmission--Direct current.
- Electric power transmission.
- High voltages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Describes a variety of reasons justifying the use of DC transmission as well as the basic concepts and techniques involved in the AC-DC and DC-AC conversion processes.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""1.1 Historical background ""; ""1.2 The mercury-arc valve ""; ""1.3 The silicon controlled rectifier (thyristor) ""; ""1.4 Future switching trends ""; ""1.5 The HVDC claims ""; ""1.6 The advent of a FACTS technology ""; ""1.7 References ""
- ""2 Static power conversion """"2.1 Introduction ""; ""2.2 Basic conversion principle ""; ""2.3 Selection of converter configuration ""; ""2.4 The ideal commutation process ""; ""2.4.1 Effect of gate control ""; ""2.4.2 Valve current and voltage waveforms ""; ""2.5 The real commutation process ""
- ""2.5.1 Commutating voltage """"2.5.2 Commutation reactance ""; ""2.5.3 Analysis of the commutation circuit ""; ""2.6 Rectifier operation ""; ""2.6.1 Mean direct voltage ""; ""2.6.2 AC current ""; ""2.7 Inverter operation ""; ""2.8 Power factor and reactive power ""; ""2.9 Maximum available power ""
- ""2.10 Characteristic converter harmonics """"2.11 Noncharacteristic harmonics ""; ""2.11.1 Harmonic crossmodulation ""; ""2.12 Harmonic transfer generalisation ""; ""2.13 Quantified effects of system asymmetries ""; ""2.14 References ""; ""3 Harmonic elimination ""; ""3.1 Introduction ""
- ""3.2 Pulse number increase """"3.3 Design of AC filters ""; ""3.3.1 Design criteria ""; ""3.3.2 Design factors ""; ""3.3.3 Network impedance""; ""3.3.4 Circuit modelling""; ""3.3.5 Tuned filters ""; ""3.3.6 Self-tuned filters ""; ""3.3.7 High-pass filters ""; ""3.3.8 Example of recent filter arrangement ""
- ""3.3.9 Type C damped filters ""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5231-2435-0
- 1-62870-453-5
- 1-84919-440-8
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