Impact of HVDC line on the convergence property of AC/DC power flow calculation

•The maximal DC transmission power withstood by AC/DC hybrid system is explored.•The impact of DC power and multiple DC lines on convergence property is explored.•Under ill-conditioning case, LM method can provide least square solution.

This paper explores the impact of HVDC line on the convergence property of AC/DC power flow calculation. Firstly, the model of AC/DC power flow computation is constructed, including unified method and alternate iterative method. Then, an improved Levenberg–Marquardt (LM) method with line search technique is developed to solve the nonlinear equations of AC/DC power flow. To test the convergence property of the proposed method, LM method with trust region technique and Newton method are also employed. The researches on the impact of heavy DC transmission power and multiple HVDC lines on the convergence property of AC/DC power flow calculation are made on a modified IEEE 118-bus AC/DC hybrid test system. Simulation results show that the developed method under the model of alternate iterative method is superior to other methods under different models in convergence property. For the influence of heavy DC transmission power on the convergence property, it is improved by the new parameter configuration of DC transmission line firstly and adding proper new shunt capacitor on the weak nodes secondly; for the influence of multiple DC transmission lines on the convergence property, it can also be improved by the change of control mode firstly and adding new shunt capacitor secondly, which are based on the least square solution obtained by proposed method under the model of alternate iterative method.