In order to prevent the modular multilevel converter (MMC) internal circulation
an analysis is made of the voltage fluctuation and circulation generating mechanism of the MMC bridge arm
and a kind of compensation control method for circulation inhibition is proposed. When the MMC power exchange is in progress
the effect of bridge arm current causes the periodic change in the submodule capacitor voltage. It has found that submodule capacitor voltage contains DC component and AC component using the average value analysis method. For converter voltage modulation using the nearest level modulation method
it has been found that
as the submodule capacitor voltage contains DC component and fundamental component deviation
there exists fundamental frequency deviation and double frequency component between bridge arm voltage and the expected value
resulting in the circulation. By compensating for the bridge arm voltage and expected value deviation
it will be possible to eliminate bridge arm voltage deviation
thereby suppressing the circulation among the converter bridge arms. The 11-level MMC DC transmission system is set up in PSCAD/EMTDC
with the effectiveness of the method proposed verified by simulation results.