Modeling of Acoustic Emission Generated by Filter Capacitors in HVDC Converter Station

The acoustic noise generated by filter capacitors in a high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter station will have a serious negative impact on the residents’ lives and the ecological environment. Though accurate enough, traditional modeling methods based on either boundary element method (BEM) or finite element method (FEM) are almost impossible to reconstruct sound field for whole HVDC station filter array because of their extremely high demand for computing resources. To deal with this problem, this paper proposes a novel Tikhonov Regularization Equivalent Source Method (TRESM)-based filter capacitor acoustic model. By constructing multiple point-sound source models, the acoustic characteristics of the actual filter capacitor are simulated and the original sound field is reconstructed. The accuracy of the proposed model is verified by the experimental results and the sound field distribution characteristics of the three-phase filter capacitor array are observed and analyzed using the proposed model.