Converter system for coupling two high voltage three-phase networks

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The converter system couples two high voltage threephase networks. Two converter transformers are associated with each network to be coupled. Each transformer has secondary windings. One secondary winding associated with a first network is Y-connected while the other is delta-connected. The converter transformers operate on a three-phase full wave rectifier with twelve semiconductor rectifier components. The arrangement of valve towers, a stacking of semiconductor components, is designed to keep a base area or a so-called valve housing in which the valve towers are accommodated as small as possible. The semiconductor components are arranged in uniform modular assemblies and may be stacked …