A Novel Protection Scheme for MMC-HVDC Transmission Lines Based on Cross-Entropy of Charge

MMC-HVdc transmission system has become the mainstream of power construction and plays an increasingly important role in the power system. However, the dc line fault results in shutting down of the converters, which can greatly endanger the security of the power grid. So it is essential to find a fast fault identification strategy for dc line protection technology. Besides, the existing backup protection scheme has the problems of long delay and strict communication synchronization requirements. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel protection scheme for mmc-HVdc transmission lines based on the Cross-Entropy of charge. The fault current oscillation phenomenon and fault current frequency characteristics of mmc-HVdc transmission lines are analyzed first. Secondly, this paper proposes a method to filter out distributed capacitance current by charge and eliminate the current oscillation. Finally, the difference of the charge during different faults (internal fault and external fault) is analyzed, and the Cross-Entropy is introduced to express this difference. Hence, this paper proposes a new principle of identifying faults using the Cross-Entropy of the charge. Simulation results show that the protection principle is not affected by the distributed capacitive current and does not require strict communication synchronization. It has excellent performance in intolerance to fault resistance and noise interference and can be used as backup protection for the mmc-HVdc transmission system.