Analysis and suppression of voltage oscillation at DC circuit breaker terminal in DC fault transient process

High‐frequency voltage oscillation occurs at the initial stage of DC short‐circuit fault in the modular multilevel converter (MMC)‐based high‐voltage direct‐current systems, which directly threatens the reliable operation of the secondary equipment in DC circuit breakers (DCCBs). Therefore, this paper focusses on the voltage oscillation characteristic at DCCB terminals, considered the stray parameters of connecting lines, the parasitic parameters of main equipment and the impedance of grounding grid, established equivalent circuit models of MMC‐HVDC converter station at the initial stage of pole‐to‐pole and pole‐to‐ground fault, and obtained the analytical formula for the voltage oscillation frequency. Then, the comparison with the DC short‐circuit test data of ±200 kV MMC‐HVDC converter station verified the validity of the models and revealed the mechanism of voltage oscillation. Finally, the influence of the parameters of the converter station on the oscillation characteristics was discussed. It was proposed to install the DCCB at the MMC valve's terminal near the DC side, and the oscillation frequency is about 10–60 kHz, which is more than 5 times lower than that at the DC reactor's terminal near the DC pole bus, and the disturbance of oscillation to DCCB was alleviated.