Talk:HVDC converter station

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Plants and stations
Plant or station? --Abdull 09:17, 22 July 2005 (UTC)


 * This is a funny bit of "engineering speak". It's common for engineers in certain disciplines to refer to a (hmmm...) "a collection of related equipment" as a "plant". So, for example, telecom engineers refer to the big rectifier in a telephone switching office that converts mains power to 48 Vdc as "the rectifier plant". In The Hunt for Red October, you'll hear the sub's command crew and engineer refer to the nuclear reactor subsystem as "the reactor plant". I think that this is the same sort of thing.
 * Atlant 11:42, 22 July 2005 (UTC)


 * A radio or TV station would not be called a radio plant anywhere on Earth. I think British speaking persons favor station while Americans favor plant in many applications. To me station implies monitoring, control, possibly modification, while plant infers manufacturing from raw materials such as wind, sun, coal, or oil. Refering to the electrical utility as the mains is also British Ccpoodle 11:24, 4 July 2007 (UTC)


 * The statement Air coils have the advantage of generating less acoustical noise than iron-core coils is true, but the noise in question is related to the AC component of the power. For a DC system with no AC at all, there would be no noise benefit. For a DC system that's operating normally (small, but non-zero AC components which the choke is working on). I don't believe the acoustic noise would be of interest...especially not in a power substation setting. Russella (talk) 18:38, 20 January 2011 (UTC)


 * The title of this page is not ideal. A better title would be "HVDC Converter Station", because this is the term in common industry usage (eg see http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel4%2F61%2F16289%2F00754078.pdf%3Farnumber%3D754078&authDecision=-203), and also because the converters routinely perform either an inversion or rectification function. Many HVDC converter stations regularly change direction of power transfer, and the converter changes from inverting to rectification.  This change would have consequential effects on other pages, but would be an improvement. Marshelec (talk) 01:00, 10 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Fully agree - consider it done.Clampower (talk) 12:29, 27 August 2012 (UTC)


 * This page and other pages like it make no mention of the inverter process, but go into great detail on the rectification process. I'm curious how the inversion is done at these high voltages... is it PWM with H-bridges? motor-gen sets? None of the wikipedia articles go into detail regarding the inverter side, so I'd like to see some expert on this topic update this page and others like it to include this.. thanks. 108.180.206.226 (talk) 10:55, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

RECTIFIERS and INVERTERS
Rectifier and inverter are available in good articles in the Wikipedia. Why on earth not link to those? That's a big mystery. I have corrected this problem by inserting the appropriate Wikilinks. By the way, inversion is a more complicated process than rectification is. ALSO, this kind of an inverter has nothing to do with the simple kind of electronic inversion that is used in digital logic circuits.24.121.195.165 (talk) 18:49, 27 June 2018 (UTC)