Overview
- Details the lifecycle of an HVDC project in a thorough guide
- Discusses technologies used to convert AC & DC power, including benefits & challenges
- Provides information on environmental issues, cost benefit analysis & lifetime performance
Part of the book series: CIGRE Green Books (CIGREGB)
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Keywords
- High Voltage Direct Current
- HVDC
- Thyristor
- Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor
- IGBT
- Monopole HVDC
- Bipole HVDC
- Reactive Power
- Overhead Lines and Cables
- Commutation Failure
About this book
This book provides information about all stages of the life of an HVDC project, from identification of the need for an HVDC scheme, through to its final disposal. This includes discussions of:
- requirements regarding integration in the AC networks;
- planning and other studies;
- cost benefit analysis;
- project specifications;
- environmental issues;
- performance and operational requirements;
- detailed descriptions of the components;
- project commissioning and implementation; and
- lifetime performance monitoring of reliability and availability.
Furthermore, the book will describe the different technologies presently in use to covert AC to DC power, and vice versa, as well as how these technologies perform within a wider HVDC system. These thorough descriptions mean that High Voltage DC Transmission Systems will beof interest to electrical engineers with little or no knowledge of HVDC technology, as well as those wishing to deepen their understanding.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Bjarne R. Andersen is the Director and Owner of Andersen Power Electronic Solutions Limited, which was established in 2003. Before becoming an independent consultant, he worked for 36 years for what is now GE Grid, where his final role was as Director of Engineering. He was involved with the development of the first chain link STATCOM and the re-locatable SVCs concept. Dr. Andersen has extensive experience in all stages of LCC and VSC HVDC projects. As a consultant, he has worked on several international HVDC projects, including the Caprivi Link, the first commercial VSC HVDC project to use an HVDC overhead line, and a VSC HVDC project for multi-terminal operation permitting multi-vendor access. Dr. Andersen was the Chairman of Cigré SC 14 from 2008 to 2014 and initiated several working groups in the area of HVDC Grids. He is an Honorary member of Cigré, and was the 2012 recipient of the prestigious IEEE PES Uno Lamm Award for his contributions towards HVDC technology. Dr. Andersen was the Editor of ‘Flexible AC Transmission Systems: FACTS’.
Stig Nilsson began his career working for the Swedish State Telephone Board with carrier communication systems. Following this, he worked for ASEA for 11 years (now ABB) with HVDC systems where he was involved with system studies for the first HVDC link on New Zealand and later he became the Control Systems Engineer for the ASEA-GE Pacific HVDC Intertie project on USA’s West Coast. At the end of this project he began working for Boeing with computer system developments and then for almost 20 years with EPRI in USA where he led many research and development (R&D) projects associated with HVDC systems and components. Prior to joining Exponent in year 2000, he was an independent consultant and later a VP in the Silicon Power Corporation, which manufactured high power semiconductor devices and medium voltage equipment for electric utility applications. Mr Nilsson is a Life Fellow of IEEE. He has chaired the IEEE PES T&D Committee, the IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award Committee, the IEEE PES Nari Hingorani Facts and Custom Power Awards Committee, several IEEE Fellow nomination review committees, been a member of the IEEE Standards Board, IEEE PES subcommittees and working groups. He has been the US Representative and Secretary of CIGRE Study Committee B4 on HVDC and Power Electronics. He is the recipient of the 2012 I.E. PES Nari Hingorani Facts and Custom Power Awards. He received the CIGRE U.S. National Committee Philip Sporn Award and the CIGRE Technical Committee Award in 2012. He has also received the CIGRE Distinguished Member Award for active participation in CIGRE Study Committees and the USNC of CIGRE (2006); and the CIGRE USNC Attwood Associate Award in 2003. Stig Nilsson is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of California, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: High Voltage DC Transmission Systems
Book Subtitle: HVDC
Editors: Bjarne R. Andersen, Stig L. Nilsson
Series Title: CIGRE Green Books
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Reference Module Computer Science and Engineering
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27352-0Due: 25 June 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27353-7Due: 25 June 2025
Series ISSN: 2367-2625
Series E-ISSN: 2367-2633
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 1380
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 250 illustrations in colour