Transient Overvoltage on HVDC Overhead Transmission Lines With Background DC Space Charges and Impulse Corona

The space charges around a HVDC transmission line may not only lead to electromagnetic environmental problems but also affect the occurrence of impulse corona and then the transient overvoltage propagation. This paper derives the equations governing the transient overvoltage propagation along a HVDC transmission line when there is either space charges surrounding the line or impulse corona. In contrast to conventional transmission line equations, the proposed equations adopted the dynamic capacitance
C
′ and conductance
G
to characterize the corona discharge in all cases, which can be obtained by a time-domain finite element method. A finite-difference time-domain method is introduced to solve the nonlinear transmission line equations. The validity of the proposed approach is verified by comparison with the lightning overvoltage waveforms measured in a literature. The transient overvoltage propagation along a long UHVDC transmission line surrounded by space charges is analyzed.