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Abstract
The bulk power system is made up of three main parts like

generation, transmission and distribution. The generated AC power or

voltage is converted into DC at high voltage levels using High Voltage

Direct Current (HVDC) transmission by rectifiers and transmit the DC

power through the transmission line, and then reconverted into AC

power by using inverters and supplies or distributed the power. Based

on the type of the converters used in HVDC transmission systems,

current source converters operated by thyristors, voltage source

converters operated by IGBTs. After development of semiconductor

technology, especially IGBTs the VSC based HVDC has several

advantages than the conventional HVDC.

Reliability is the major consideration while planning and

operating the power system. Reliable transmission of power depends

on the availability of the each component present in the system.

Availability highly depends on the component failure rate, repair time

and installation time. Several methods are used to investigate the

reliability of HVDC transmission system. Chapter 1 discusses over

view of the thesis, concept of reliability, introduction to HVDC,

configurations of HVDC, literature survey, problem outline,

organization and objective of the thesis. Chapter 2 proposes the

Markov modeling to evaluate the unavailability of each component of

HVDC transmission system. This chapter discusses the effect of valve

parameters such as failure rate, repair time and installation time one

at a time on unavailability of 12-pulse voltage source converter with

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and without valve backups. It also discusses the reliability assessment

of converter transformer for HVDC transmission system. The presence

of bypass valve on unavailability of 12-pulse voltage source converter

has been proposed in this chapter.

Configuration of HVDC systems are mainly mono polar, bipolar

and homo polar. Compared to mono polar, bipolar transmission

system is more reliable. When transmitting the power from sending

end to receiving end through HVDC transmission line, failure at the

receiving end only affects the load at the receiving bus. Failure in

sending end causes loss in transmission line and also load

curtailment at receiving bus. Amount of load curtailment depends on

the quantity of the failure at the sending end. In such case, transmit

the required power through the transmission line by some

redundancy is built into the transmission system making continuity of

supply to tolerate single or double failures.

The existing method which is adopted is installation of a VSC

tapping station on CSC-HVDC transmission system to improve the

reliability indices at load point. Compared with CSC-HVDC

transmission system VSC-HVDC transmission system is more and

more concerned to improve the power system reliability. In Chapter 3,

the tapping station concept is proposed for VSC-HVDC bipole

transmission system to improve the reliability indices at the load

point.

Once the tapping station is installed on the transmission line,

the location, tapping station capacity, component failures and

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backups will affect the reliability indices at the load point. The

various parametric studies on the reliability indices of bipole VSC-

HVDC transmission system are investigated in Chapter 4. It is also

proposed to improve the reliability indices by provision of backups and

presence of bypass valve.

Modern HVDC technology appeared with several terminals are

called multi terminal HVDC transmission systems. In Chapter 5

reliability analysis of three developing technologies in multi terminal

HVDC is carried out to improve the reliability indices in short-term

and long-term planning.

Economics plays a major role in the application of reliability

concepts and attainment of an acceptable level of reliability. Reliability

is not free, but poor reliability of electric power supply usually costs

much more than good reliability. It is therefore important to determine

the optimal reliability level at which the reliability investment can be

achieved by reducing the customer damage costs or Lost of load value

due to power supply interruptions.

In Chapter 6, the concept of reliability cost /benefit analysis is

applied by installing tapping station on the VSC-HVDC bipole

transmission system. Whether the installation of tapping station is

cost benefit or not is investigated by evaluating the expected total cost

(ECOST) of customer interruptions and the Interruption Energy

Assessment Rate (IEAR) at a specified load point and different load

points. Interconnection of AC/DC grids has several advantages to

improve the stability and reliability of the power system. Further an

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analysis has been made to study the impact of tapping station on

interconnected AC/DC transmission system and to study whether

cost beneficial or not is investigated at single load level and multiple

load levels.

Finally the conclusions and future scope of the present work

has been discussed in Chapter 7.

The forced outage input data for the research work is presented

in Appendices.