Dynamic Voltage Restorer Israel (2 x 22,5 MVA)

Introduction ABB installed and commissioned the world s biggest Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) in August 2000 in Israel. The two systems (each 22,5MVA) protect the production facility of a microprocessor manufacturer located in a desert environment. These processes are very sensitive to voltage dips, and already small disturbances of the supply voltage can trip the facility and cause high financial losses. The picture on the right side shows one of the two DVR systems from above. Together with the customer, the ABB project team managed to get the two systems designed, manufactured, tested and commissioned within a record time of 9 months only, partly due to the extensive reuse of platforms already employed with other frequency converter applications. The drawing below shows the internal arrangement of the containerized DVR system.

During the first two months of operation the DVR has already compensated several voltage dips and therefore protected the owner from consequential damages. The use of IGCT-type semiconductors (Integrated Gate Commutated Thyristor) allows to build very large, though still compact units with enhanced performance and reliability. Because of the highly sophisticated converter design with IGCTs, the DVR even compensated dips which were beyond the specified operation envelope.

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Main technical data The DVRs are connected to the two main feeders of the facility at 22kV. They protect the entire plant, which requires a maximum power of 45MVA. The main technical data are as follows: Converter type: Connection voltage: Maximum served load per DVR: Magnitude of 3-phase voltage dips to be compensated: Magnitude of 1-phase voltage dips to be compensated: Duration of voltage dips (3- or 1-phase): Compensation of multiple dips (3- or 1-phase): Response time: Energy storage: DC-Link voltage: Efficiency: Enclosure: Coolant: Switchgear: 3 level 22kV / 50Hz 22,5MVA @ 0.9 p.f. 35% 50% 500ms possible * <1ms 3MJ 5200 VDC 99% Outdoor Containerized de-ionized water / air 24kV / SF6

* Note: The system is capable to compensate multiple dips caused for example by auto-re-closing of circuit breakers in the high voltage network. The accumulated compensation duration of multiple dips is minimum 800ms or longer, depending on how much time the system needs to "recover" between single dips.

Converter type The 3-level (NPC) voltage source converter used for this DVR is based on the IGCT (Integrated Gate Commutated Thyristor) technology and is water-cooled, which yields an optimized cost versus performance ratio, and is virtually maintenance free. The control interface is established via fiber optics, thus eliminating any electromagnetic interference. The picture on the right hand shows the converter stack. Three such stacks make up the entire converter assembly for the DVR. The IGCT stacks have been tested with fault currents of up to 110kA during the system tests at ABB in Switzerland. When it comes to robustness and dependability, the IGCT power modules are unmatched in high power electronics applications. They excel in availability, low operation cost and minimum space requirements.

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System performance Since the DVR is most of the time in standby mode, it is not generating any harmonics. In this mode, the system is in short circuit operation (SCO) and the valves are not switching. During boost mode, the DVR will generate harmonics, which are almost negligible because of the converters 3-level twin configuration, which shifts all typical harmonics up to the high frequency range with the first center frequency at 3.4 kHz, equal to 68th harmonic order. The graph shows the harmonic spectrum as a function of the injected voltage magnitude during boost mode. Since August 2000, the time the DVRs were in operation, several compensation events have been recorded. The picture below shows the display of the dip-monitoring system with data of a 39-percent, double-phase voltage dip of 100 ms duration, which was perfectly compensated. The extreme fast and accurate response within less than one millisecond proofs that the DVR performs extraordinarily and that this device is a cost effective and viable remedy for industries suffering from transients in their supply voltage.

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The graph on the right hand shows that the DVR can even compensate dips with magnitudes higher than specified. The figure illustrates the compensation capability as a function of dip duration. If a disturbance is shorter than the maximum specified duration, the DVR is capable to fully compensate it even though the magnitude of the dip is higher than the design value. This characteristic of the compensation capability is a very important feature of the DVR from ABB and protects the load effectively.
0.65 0.6 0.55 Voltage dip [p.u.] 0.5 0.45 0.4 0.35 0.45 0 100 200 300 Compensation time [ms] 400 500

max. 3-phase sag capability

Contact address For further information, please contact your local ABB representative, or direct correspondence to our center of power electronics:
ABB Industrie AG, Div. ICF, 5300 Turgi, Switzerland Phone: +41-56-299 32 35 Fax: +41 56 299 20 90 e-mail: pes@ch.abb.com Internet: www.abb.com/powerelectronics

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