Simulation Research on Solutions to 66kV Vertical SVC Switching Overvoltage and the Implementation

The dry hollow reactor has the features of good inductance linearity and heat dissipation and is not easy to produce ferromagnetic resonance with capacitive load in the system. Therefore, the phase controlled reactor in TCR-type SVC is usually a dry hollow reactor. According to years’ actual operating condition, the phase controlled reactor in 35kV SVC or SVC at a lower level operates stably while tree discharge or breakdown failure frequently happens to the phase controlled reactor in the 66kV vertical SVC, which seriously affects the stable operation of the equipment. This paper puts forward a method of installing arrester on the phase controlled reactors to relieve the SVC switching overvoltage impulse and protect the phase controlled reactors. Besides, it uses PSCAD to conduct a simulation and verifies the feasibility of this method.