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Switching transients and the concept of transient-free switching

When the current in an individual capacitor reaches a natural zero-crossing, the thyristors can be left unbated and no further current will flow. The reactive power supplied to the power system ceases abruptly. The capacitor, however, is left with a trapped charge (Figure 6.15(a)). Because of this charge, the voltage across the thyristors subsequently alternates between zero and twice the peak-phase voltage. The only instant when the thyristors can be gated again without transients is when the voltage across them is zero (Figure 6.15(b)). This coincides with peak-phase voltage.
Ideal transient-free switching
The simple case of a switched capacitor, with no other circuit elements than the voltage supply, is used first to describe the important concept of transient-free switching. Figure 6.16 shows the circuit.
With sinusoidal AC supply voltage v = v̂ sin (ω0t + α), the thyristors can be gated into conduction only at a peak value of voltage, that is, when
\frac{{dv}}{{dt}} = {\omega _0}\hat v\cos ({\omega _0}t + \alpha ) = 0              (6.8)
Gating at any other instant would require the current i = Cdv/dt to have a discontinuous step change at t = 0+. Such a step is impossible in practice because of inductance, which is considered in the next section. To permit analysis of Figure 6.16, the gating must occur at a voltage peak, and with this restriction the current is given by
Ideal transient-free switching waveforms
Fig. 6.15 Ideal transient-free switching waveforms. (a) switching on; and (b) switching off.
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Fig. 6.16 Circuit for analysis of transient-free switching.
i = C\frac{{dv}}{{dt}} = \hat v{\omega _0}C\cos ({\omega _0}t + \alpha )            (6.9)
where α = ±π/2. Now ω0C = BC is the fundamental-frequency susceptance of the capacitor, and XC = 1/BC its reactance, so that with α = ±π/2
i =  \pm \hat v{B_C}\sin ({\omega _0}t) =  + {\hat i_{AC}}\sin ({\omega _0}t)              (6.10)
where AC is the peak value of tha AC current, AC=v̂BC= v̂/XC .
In the absence of other circuit elements, we must also specify that the capacitor be precharged to the voltage VC0 = ±, that is, it must hold the prior charge ±v̂/C. This is because any prior DC voltage on the capacitor cannot be accounted for in the simple circuit of Figure 6.16. In practice this voltage would appear distributed across series inductance and resistance with a portion across the thyristor switch.
With these restrictions, that is, dv/dt = 0 and VC0 = ± at t = 0, we have the ideal case of transient-free switching, as illustrated in Figure 6.15. This concept is the basis for switching control in the TSC. In principle, once each capacitor is charged to either the positive or the negative system peak voltage, it is possible to switch any or all of the capacitors on or off for any integral number of half-cycles without transients.
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