TY - JOUR
T1 - Dynamic performance analysis of long-distance power transmission system with DC superconducting cable from large photovoltaic generation
AU - Higashikawa, Kohei
AU - Arai, Junichi
AU - Harada, Katsuhiko
AU - Koshizuka, Tadashi
AU - Matsushima, Jun
AU - Ikeda, Hisatoshi
AU - Harid, Noureddine
AU - Al-Durra, Ahmed
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received October 31, 2018; accepted February 8, 2019. Date of publication March 6, 2019; date of current version April 22, 2019. This work was supported by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), JSPS KAK-ENHI Grant JP18K18864, and The Iwatani Naoji Foundation. (Corresponding author: Kohei Higashikawa.) K. Higashikawa is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan (e-mail:, kohei@super.ees. kyushu-u.ac.jp). J. Arai, retired, was with the Kogakuin University, Tokyo 163-8677, Japan. K. Harada is with the Kyushu Electric College, Fukuoka 812-0018, Japan. T. Koshizuka is with the Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo 120-8551, Japan. J. Matsushima is with the University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan. H. Ikeda is with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto, California 94304 USA. N. Harid and A. A.-Durra are with the Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi 2533, United Arab Emirates. Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TASC.2019.2903390
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PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - This paper proposes a new long-distance power transmission system with superconducting cable from large-scale photovoltaic (PV) power generation along with the dynamic performance analysis. The advantage of the proposed system is the reduction in the ac/dc conversion steps compared with the conventional one. As is well known, long-distance power transmission requires a dc system, and conventional dc power transmission system requires high dc voltage with low current to reduce losses. Such a high voltage has been achieved by dc/ac conversion with a boost chopper and an inverter from PV, and ac/dc conversion by a rectifier to dc cable. On the other hand, superconducting cable can transmit power with a lower voltage and higher current compared with conventional cable. This enables us to convert the dc voltage from PV plant to dc voltage to superconducting cable directly. Furthermore, the capacitance of the superconducting cable could be used for stable dc operation. In this paper, the system configuration, operation steps, controls, and characteristics verified by computer simulation are presented; eXpandable Transient Analysis Program (XTAP) is used for the simulation.
AB - This paper proposes a new long-distance power transmission system with superconducting cable from large-scale photovoltaic (PV) power generation along with the dynamic performance analysis. The advantage of the proposed system is the reduction in the ac/dc conversion steps compared with the conventional one. As is well known, long-distance power transmission requires a dc system, and conventional dc power transmission system requires high dc voltage with low current to reduce losses. Such a high voltage has been achieved by dc/ac conversion with a boost chopper and an inverter from PV, and ac/dc conversion by a rectifier to dc cable. On the other hand, superconducting cable can transmit power with a lower voltage and higher current compared with conventional cable. This enables us to convert the dc voltage from PV plant to dc voltage to superconducting cable directly. Furthermore, the capacitance of the superconducting cable could be used for stable dc operation. In this paper, the system configuration, operation steps, controls, and characteristics verified by computer simulation are presented; eXpandable Transient Analysis Program (XTAP) is used for the simulation.
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U2 - 10.1109/TASC.2019.2903390
DO - 10.1109/TASC.2019.2903390
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85065074739
SN - 1051-8223
VL - 29
JO - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
JF - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
IS - 5
M1 - 8661674
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