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High-voltage direct current

A high-voltage direct current (HVDC) system uses direct current (DC) and high voltages (currently between 100 kV and 800 kV) for electric power transmission. It contrasts with the more common alternating current (AC) transmission systems.

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High voltage transmission

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Comparison with AC

Conversion process

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Corona discharge

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High-voltage direct current

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mercury-arc valves andinstance ofThese advantages led to early low-voltage DC transmission systems being supplanted by AC systems around the turn of the 20th century.Practical conversion of current between AC a…0.80text
starting in the 1970sinstance ofThese advantages led to early low-voltage DC transmission systems being supplanted by AC systems around the turn of the 20th century.Practical conversion of current between AC a…0.80text
power semiconductor devices including thyristorsinstance ofThese advantages led to early low-voltage DC transmission systems being supplanted by AC systems around the turn of the 20th century.Practical conversion of current between AC a…0.80text
integrated gate-commutated thyristorsinstance ofThese advantages led to early low-voltage DC transmission systems being supplanted by AC systems around the turn of the 20th century.Practical conversion of current between AC a…0.80text
wind into the main transmission gridinstance ofwithout increasing prospective short-circuit current.Integration of renewable resources0.80text
grading capacitorsinstance ofAdditional passive components0.80text
resistors need to be connected in parallel with each thyristor in order to ensure that the voltage across the valve is evenly shared between the thyristorsinstance ofAdditional passive components0.80text
the insulated-gate bipolar transistorinstance ofThis is an important limitation in some circumstances.With some other types of semiconductor devices0.80text
3rd or 5th harmonics.The task of designing AC harmonic filters for HVDC converter stations is complexinstance ofnoncharacteristic harmonics0.80text
computationally intensiveinstance ofnoncharacteristic harmonics0.80text
since in addition to ensuring that the converter does not produce an unacceptable level of voltage distortion on the AC systeminstance ofnoncharacteristic harmonics0.80text
it must be ensured that the harmonic filters do not resonate with some component elsewhere in the AC systeminstance ofnoncharacteristic harmonics0.80text

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