Supervisors - Prof. Stephen Finney, University of Strathclyde and Dr. Ewen MacPherson, University of Edinburgh
PhD Student - Ioannis Antoniou, University of Strathclyde
Status - Closed
The major aim is to investigate new VSC designs/topologies to make them more robust, reliable efficient and cost effective in wind turbine application and bulk power transmission in offshore HVDC application.
OBJECTIVES
To review the state-of-the-art on converter technology for wind turbine applications and bulk power transmission. Identify, what seems to be the future in VSC and HVDC applications
To investigate the minimum VSC requirements/specifications to comply and address the challenges imposed by modern power systems with large-scale penetration of renewables and offshore interconnections. This objective aims to establish a set of guidelines/recommendations.
To investigate new VSC topologies and control strategies, via simulation and validation through scale-down prototypes.
To test thoroughly the VSC designs implemented in the laboratory and move towards a proof of concept arena.
To assess the performance of proposed VSC topologies both at the device and power system level in the context of large-scale renewable energy integration.
To generate VSC design methodology/recommendations and control design tools that can be used by power converter manufacturers in their technologies development process.