An asymmetrical firing strategy for the cascaded converters of a HVDC link is proposed, resulting in minimum reactive power compensation at both ends of the dc link. Both 6-and 12-pulse converters, in unipolar and bipolar operation, are considered. In addition to reactive power reduction, ac and de harmonics are greatly reduced.
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