Arrangement for voltage conversion

1. An arrangement connected to a direct voltage network for transmitting high voltage direct current, said arrangement being provided for converting direct voltage into alternating voltage and conversely, said arrangement comprising:

a multi-cell Voltage Source Converter having:

at least one phase leg connected to opposite poles of a direct voltage side of the converter and comprising a series connection of switching cells, each switching cell having at least one energy storing capacitor as well as two terminals respectively connected to two immediately adjacent switching cells in said series connection of switching cells, a mid point of said series connection of switching cells dividing said series connection of switching cells into two halves of said series connection of switching cells and forming a phase output being configured to be connected to an alternating voltage side of the converter, and

for each half of said series connection of switching cells, an inductance device in the form of a phase reactor arranged to connect a corresponding one of the two halves of said series connection of switching cells to said mid point, and

a transformer, for each of the at least one phase leg, configured to connect said phase output to an alternating voltage phase line associated with said phase leg, the transformer including two primary windings and a secondary winding,

wherein said phase reactors of the at least one phase leg are built in in said transformer by using the two primary windings of the transformer, each of the two primary windings connects a corresponding one of the two halves of said series connection of switching cells to the mid point, each of the two primary windings of the transformer is arranged to interact with the secondary winding of the transformer that is connected to said alternating voltage phase line, and said two primary windings are so located with respect to each other such that a dc component of a current flowing from one of said poles to the other of said poles through said mid point flows in substantially opposite directions through the two primary windings.

2. The arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein said two primary windings are arranged substantially in parallel with each other.

3. The arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein said two primary windings extend in the longitudinal direction thereof between two planes in common being substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal extension of the primary windings.

4. The arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein said secondary winding of the transformer is arranged in parallel with said two primary windings and outside of a space between said two primary windings.

5. The arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein said secondary winding of the transformer is arranged substantially in parallel with said two primary windings and within a space between said two primary windings.

6. The arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the number of the switching cells of said phase leg is ≧4, ≧12, ≧30 or ≧50.

7. The arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein semiconductor devices of the switching cell assemblies are IGBTs (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor), IGCTs (Integrated Gate Commutated Thyristor) or GTOs (Gate Turn-Off Thyristor).

8. The arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein it is configured to have said direct voltage side of the converter connected to said direct voltage network for transmitting High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) and the alternating voltage side connected to an alternating voltage phase line belonging to an alternating voltage network.

9. The arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein said Voltage Source Converter is configured to have a direct voltage across said two poles being 1 kV-1200 kV, 10 kV-1200 kV or 100 kV-1200 kV.

10. The arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein said two primary windings extend in the longitudinal direction thereof between two planes in common being substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal extension of the primary windings.

11. The arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein said secondary winding of the transformer is arranged in parallel with and outside a space between said two primary windings.

12. The arrangement according to claim 3 , wherein said secondary winding of the transformer is arranged in parallel with said two primary windings and outside of a space between said two primary windings.

13. The arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein said secondary winding of the transformer is arranged substantially in parallel with said two primary windings and within a space between said two primary windings.

14. The arrangement according to claim 3 , wherein said secondary winding of the transformer is arranged substantially in parallel with said two primary windings and within a space between said two primary windings.

15. The arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein said secondary winding of the transformer is arranged substantially in parallel with said two primary windings and within a space between said two primary windings.

16. The arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein the number of the switching cells of said phase leg is ≧4, ≧12, ≧30 or ≧50.

17. The arrangement according to claim 3 , wherein the number of the switching cells of said phase leg is ≧4, ≧12, ≧30 or ≧50.

18. The arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein the number of the switching cells of said phase leg is ≧4, ≧12, ≧30 or ≧50.

19. The arrangement according to claim 5 , wherein the number of the switching cells of said phase leg is ≧4, ≧12, ≧30 or ≧50.