2011 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting

Event Information

Start Date: 24/Jul/2011
End Date: 07/29/2011
Location: The Detroit Marriott within the Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Link: http://www.pes-gm.org/2011/

Cocktails, Appetizers, and Simulation of the Grid of the Future in Real-Time!

During your stay at the IEEE PES General Meeting, you are invited to join us to celebrate the release of the many innovations OPAL-RT and POWERSYS are proud to announce in 2011. Come and see how the editors of eDRIVEsim and eMEGAsim, the highest performance Power Systems and Power Electronics simulators, now provide more features and more power for your investment. Come and meet POWERSYS, the new EMTP-RV distributor since April 1, 2011.
• Users will share their experience
• Support of 12 core at 3.3 GHz
• MMC models on multi-core and FPGA with 3300 I/O channels
• New OP5600 HIL systems with integrated monitoring and 12 core, Spartan3 and VIRTEX 6 FPGA
• New Motor Drive HIL with fault simulation capability using Floating Point on FPGA
• New OP7000 Multi FPGA I/O system

Date: Sunday July 24, 2011
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Location:
Private Dining Room
Andiamo Detroit
400 Renaissance Center Suite A-403
Detroit, MI 48243

Date: Monday July 25, 2011
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Location:
Windergarden Area
Andiamo Detroit
400 Renaissance Center Suite A-403
Detroit, MI 48243

You can register in advance at: www.opal-rt.com/PES-registration

Also co-sponsored by:
POWERSYS is the worldwide distributor of :

Technical Papers Presented By Opal-RT

A Combined State-Space Nodal Method for the Simulation of Power System Transients Paper has been accepted for 2011 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting

Résumé: This paper presents a new solution method that combines state-space and nodal analysis for the simulation of electrical systems. The presented flexible clustering of state-space described electrical subsystems into a nodal method offers several advantages for the efficient solution of switched networks, nonlinear functions and for interfacing with nodal model equations. This paper extends the concept of discrete companion branch equivalent of the nodal approach to state-space described systems and enables natural coupling between them. The presented solution method is simultaneous and allows to benefit from the advantages of two different modeling approaches normally exclusive from one another.

Technical paper file:

A Combined State-Space Nodal Method for the Simulation of Power System Transients.pdf

Modeling and Control of a Full-Bridge Modular Multilevel STATCOM Paper has been accepted for 2011 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting

Résumé: Due to its unique topology, the Modular Multilevel STATCOM has many advantages but requires a sophisticated controller and puts higher requirements on simulation tools. To simulate the STATCOM in real-time is preferable because it enables hardware-in-the-loop test of the system in various scenarios including extreme fault conditions, which cannot be tested on a real STATCOM. This paper presents a model of full-bridge sub-module which enables fast offline and real-time simulation of the STATCOM. A control scheme with a new SM capacitor voltage balancing method is also proposed in this paper. The model and the controller are investigated for different operating conditions. Implemented in a real-time simulator, the model can be simulated in real time at a time step of 20 µs, 131 times faster than its reference model. As demonstrated by the results, the proposed control scheme is effective and robust.

Technical paper file:

PES12_MMCSTATCOM.pdf