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eHS | FPGA-Based Power Electronics Toolbox

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eHS | FPGA-based Power Electronics Toolbox

Unrivaled Performance. High Fidelity.

ehs_principleeHS is a generic and reprogrammable FPGA-based electrical solver at the heart of the eFPGASIM suite. eHS provides a convenient user interface enabling users to bring in real-time models created in the simulation tool of their choice: SimScape Power System Simulink toolbox, PSIM, PLECS Blockset, or Multisim.




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Easily Bring Power Electronics Models to Real-Time Simulation

OPAL-RT’s new Schematic Editor is an intuitive user interface for building power electronics and is a part of eHS. It provides an advanced graphical editor and is integrated with OPAL-RT’s & NI’s real-time simulation platforms.

  • Design power electronics models with ease through drag and drop components
  • Interact with a streamlined GUI, and a fast simulation workflow to bring models to real-time simulation
  • Manage analog and digital I/O assignment through the interface


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Accurate and Precise Electric Machine Real-Time Simulation

Integrated within eHS, the FPGA Electric Machine Library is the ideal platform for designing and testing controller and power electronics and electric drive systems. The library includes a power electronic and motor library that lets you simulate all components forming the electrical motor drive system. It includes detailed mathematical model of different type of electrical motors such as:

  • Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (PMSM – IPM – BLDC- SPM)
  • Induction Machine (DFIG – DFIM – Squirrel Cage Induction Machine)
  • Switched Reluctance Machines


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Low Voltage Ride Through (LVDT) Capability of Solar Energy Inverters Using an FPGA-based Real-Time Simulator

This Hardware-in-the-Loop demo consists of an inverter controller for grid-connected solar energies and an OP4510 real-time simulator. The controller, developed by the GREENLAB of Hefei University of Technology, is capable of low-voltage ride through--while the Electric Hardware Solver (eHS) is running on the OP4510, and simulates the entire grid-connected solar-energy inverter in real-time on the FPGA at a time step of less than 250 nanoseconds. The design of circuit schematic is done using the new OPAL-RT Schematic Editor.


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Product Features

Low Latency

eHS provides very low latency from PMW inputs to analog outputs, crucial for the accuracy of fast HIL control systems.

Model Fidelity

eHS has the capacity to run, in real-time, up to 144 coupled switches per eHS core for maximum simulation fidelity, without adding artificial delays in real-time simulation.

Fast

eHS supports PWM switching frequencies of 200+ KHz, the fastest power electronic solver in the industry, supporting demanding applications such as On-Board Chargers (OBC).


From Modelling to FPGA in 3 Steps

Import your model designed with your favorite circuit editor directly into the eHS user interface.

Then, compile your model in RT-LAB, and let eHS automate your system equation and configure your I/O parameters.

Finally, execute and interact with your real-time simulation, automate test sequences and enjoy sub microsecond FPGA-based simulation time steps.


eHS easily enables the running of test sequences and on-the-fly changes to simulation parameters by using the eHS Test Scenario feature. It allows the test engineer to jump from one set of component values to the next without stopping the simulation. 


The Perfect eHS Series Tailored to Your Needs

OPAL-RT offers four distinct eHS series to better address your engineering needs. Cater to the requirements of your system by selecting the exact number of states, switches and I/O channels from our list of eHS solver options: eHSx16, eHSx32, eHSx64 or eHSx128. Read the eHS specifications for additional information on available series. 







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Create Customized Test Scenarios

A generic and reprogrammable FPGA-based electromagnetic transient (EMT) solver at the heart of the eFPGASIM suite, eHS provides a convenient software environment enabling users to bring models to real-time in seconds.

Create customized test scenarios to generate faults or simulate other events and manoeuvers. Perform on-the-fly parameter changes in your simulated circuit without reloading or recompiling your model.



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eHS is available on both OPAL-RT and NI's platforms. Download the software platform compatible with your toolbox.
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Looking for more information on eHS? Search our extensive resource center for technical papers, presentations and demo models.
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Video Tutorial

This video tutorial provides basic information on how to create a new project with a template that includes the eHS solver and how to run a real-time simulation with an example model included in the template.
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COMPATIBLE SIMULATION PLATFORMS

The OP4510 is a compact, entry-level simulator that combines all of OPAL-RT’s strengths in high-performance Rapid Control Prototyping and Hardware-in-the-loop simulation.















The OP5707XG offers an unequaled level of FPGA performance and optical connectivity to meet top-level requirements.

















The PXI combines PCI electrical-bus features with the modular, Eurocard packaging of CompactPCI and then adds specialized synchronization buses and key software features.















eHS Applications

OPAL-RT’sis uniquely positioned to offer the most complete and advanced product and service line for the most in-demand automotive fields.
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Automotive

Use eHS to simulate complex electric system across multiple FPGAs and CPUs and to be interconnected with the control agents, thanks to the wide support of communication protocols.
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Energy Conversion Controls

Use eHS to perform DER integration studies, including PV, windfarms, and energy storage.
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Compatible Real-Time Simulation System

Powered by eHS, eFPGASIM is the perfect real-time simulation system for all types of electrical conversion test applications, such as renewable energy conversion (photovoltaics, wind power, battery management and microgrid), industrial drive systems, electric drive transportation and power electronics research.

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When HYPERSIM’s in-schematic signal monitoring is not enough, when networks are very large, or when more types of widgets are required, or even for training purposes, it may be practical to build distinct dashboards with a more concise organization of the information. Several tools can be used to achieve this, such as NI LabVIEW. Information is sent in real time from HYPERSIM using compatible communication protocols such as TCP/UDP or OPC UA and displays are refreshed every few milliseconds.

For a live demo using this functionality, watch this webinar
Dr. Flavia Khatounian

Abstract

Flavia Khatounian received her diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ-ESIB), Lebanon, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Cachan, France, in 2007. She joined the Saint Joseph University of Beirut in 2008 where she is nowadays a full-time associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Head of the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Department.

Her research interests include power electronics and electrical machines identification and control. She serves as a reviewer for high impact factor journals and international conferences and is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) where she volunteers currently as a vice chair of the Lebanon Joint Chapter, RA24/IM09/CS23 (CH08807). She is the author or coauthor of 2 book chapters and more than 40 scientific papers.

Emilio Piesciorovsky

Abstract

This study presents an interface method (IM) to interconnect real-time simulators (RTSs) without amplifiers for different intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), such as protective relays, smart meters, and other devices. It is a significant topic for the power systems protection community because there are many protection devices with different requirements. These protection devices have pinouts that measure bus voltages/currents and breaker pole states and generate trip/close pulse signals. Most of the emulation test beds with RTSs and HIL need amplifiers to connect IEDs from different product manufacturers because the low-voltage interface levels are not available in some instruction manuals. Additionally, commercial amplifiers have cutoff frequency limitations and have an excessive cost when several IEDs are wired onto test beds. Then, the validation of protection and control systems with RTSs and IEDs in the loop from different vendors without amplifiers results in an unfeasible alternative. In this paper, the IM was based on using an interface box, power source, and RTS to identify IED inputs/outputs. The sequence to recognize IED pinouts and calculate the current/voltage scaling factors is described. The IM was validated satisfactorily with RTS and a protection device (with unknown pinouts) in the loop.




Biography

Emilio C. Piesciorovsky graduated with a BS in electrical engineering from the National Technological University, Argentina (1995). He received his MS in marketing international from La Plata National University, Argentina (2001). He worked as an engineer for Pirelli Power Cables and Systems, SDMO Industries, ABB, and Casco Systems.

He completed his MS (2009) and PhD (2015) in electrical engineering from Kansas State University. Then, he worked as a postdoc at Tennessee Technological University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Currently, he is a professional technical staff member and lab space manager in the power system protection area at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is the author/coauthor of more than 20 publications, and is an IEEE senior member; piesciorovec@ornl.gov.

Dr. Jean-Patric Da Costa

Biography

Jean Patric da Costa was born in Santa Maria, Brazil, in 1979. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and a master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil, in 2004, 2006, and 2011. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba, Brazil. His research interests include control of static converters, smart grids, ancillary services, and distributed generators.




Dr. Philippe Viarouge

Biography

Philippe Viarouge was born in Périgueux France in 1954. He received the engineering and Doctor of engineering degrees, the french accreditation to supervise research (HDR) from the “Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse”, France, in 1976, 1979 and 1992.

Since 1979, he has been a professor with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. He is working in the research laboratory LEEPCI. His research interests include the design & modeling of electrical machines and medium frequency magnetic components, AC drives and power electronics. He was Project Associate and consulting engineer at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, in 2010 and 2018 respectively.




Dr. Ron Brandl

Biography

Dr. Ron Brandl completed his studies in electrical engineering in 2010 and received his doctorate in engineering from the University of Kassel in 2018. Since 2011, Ron Brandl is working as a research associate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology – IEE, where he heads the group ‘Power Electronics Applications’ and is part of the Fraunhofer Competence Center ‘Cognitive Energy Systems’. Additionally, Ron Brandl is working as project manager and researcher at the European Distributed Energy Resource Laboratories e.V. – DERlab since 2018. His expertise covers topics such as real-time simulations, power hardware-in-the-loop technology, power electronics and system stability, electromobility and AI in energy. He is involved in the design of test centers for smart grids, participates in various national and European research projects, is part of several working groups, such as the IEEE Task Force “Real-Time Simulation of Power and Energy Systems”, the IEEE P2004 Working Group “Recommended Practice for HIL Simulation Based Testing” and he is National Expert and Operating Agent of the IEA-ISGAN Annex 5 “Smart Grid International Research Facility Network”.

Dr. Danielle Nasrallah

Biography

Danielle Sami Nasrallah received an Engineer’s diploma in electromechanical engineering and a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies in electrical engineering from École supérieure d’ingénieurs de Beyrouth (ÉSIB), Beirut, Lebanon in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and a Ph. D. degree in Robotics Modelling and Control from McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in 2006. During her Ph. D. studies she worked on a part-time basis at Robotics Design as a control and robotics engineer. She moved to Meta Vision Systems in 2006-2007 as a control and applications engineer.

In 2008, she joined the electrical department of the Royal Military College of Kingston as an assistant professor and, in 2009, she was a visiting assistant professor at the American University of Beirut. From 2010 to 2014, she worked as a consultant in control and systems engineering. In 2014, she joined OPAL-RT TECHNOLOGIES where she is presently a technical lead in control and intelligent mobility. She retained links with academia as she lectures in Robotics and Control at both Concordia and McGill Universities.

Sebastian Hubschneider

Biography

Sebastian Hubschneider finished his studies of electrical engineering and information technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in June 2015 with the academic degree Master of Science. During his time at the University, he specialized in power engineering with a focus on energy grids and the energy sector in general, including markets and the economy.

Since July 2015, Sebastian works as a research associate at the Institute of Electric Energy Systems and High-Voltage Technology (IEH), KIT. His research focuses on Power Hardware-in-the-Loop systems in conjunction with energy grids and electrical equipment.

Georg Lauss

Biography

Georg Lauss received the Dipl.-Ing. degree from the Johannes Kepler University JKU Linz, Austria, in 2006 and jointly from the Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule ETHZ, Zürich, Switzerland, and the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Paris, France. He is a researcher with the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria. His main interests include electromagnetic systems, power electronics, system and control theory, mathematical methods for optimized control systems, hardware-in-the-loop simulation systems, and real-time simulation for electromagnetic power systems.

Georg Lauss is the Chairman of the IEEE WG P2004 Recommended Practice for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Simulation Based Testing of Electric Power Apparatus and Controls and the IEEE PES Task Force on Real-Time Simulation of Power and Energy Systems.

Dr. Charalambos Konstantinou

Biography

Charalambos Konstantinou is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science (CS) and Affiliate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE) of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. He is the Principal Investigator of the Secure Next Generation Resilient Systems Lab (SENTRY) and a member of the Resilient Computing and Cybersecurity Center (RC3) at KAUST. His research interests are in secure, trustworthy, and resilient cyber-physical and embedded IoT systems. He is also interested in critical infrastructures security and resilience with a special focus on smart grid technologies, renewable energy integration, and real-time simulation.

He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from New York University (NYU), NY, in 2018, and a Dipl.-Ing.-M.Eng. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2012. Before joining KAUST, he was an Assistant Professor with the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) at Florida State University (FSU). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of ACM, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2021-2024).

Christine Van Slyke

Biography

Christine Van Slyke is Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at SCALABLE Network Technologies. She has been with SCALABLE for over seven years and has a Masters in Business Administration. She has more than 20 years of experience in business, technology, and strategy development. Prior to SCALABLE, she spent more than a decade helping TELUS—one of Canada’s leading telecommunications and managed solutions providers expand its offerings across the Province of Ontario.

Deepak Fulwani

Abstract

This talk will discuss methods to implement different topologies of DC Microgrids.

José Eduardo Alves Junior

Abstract

Synchrophasor measurement technology is based on calculation of phasors obtained from Phasor Measurement Units. This technology is used in several countries to get better observability of electric systems. CEPEL’s Synchronous Phase Measurement Laboratory (LabPMU), in Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, is a laboratory infrastructure conceived to provide performance tests of PMUs and research on applications based on this technology. One relevant project carried out at LabPMU is to use Fractional Cycle Digital Fourier Transform Algorithm for Phasor Measurement Units (FC-DFT). This project aims to achieve faster PMUs, regarding the increasing presence of power electronics interfaced resources in power system generation and transmission. The presentation will show power electronic electrical simulations using HYPERSIM, in order to show the benefits of the algorithm. Two different simulation circuits were used: an HVDC multi-infeed circuit, as that arrangement is extensively used in the world, especially in Brazil; and a simulation of a distribution circuit provided with a PV array connected to the distribution electrical system through a converter (switching function model). Some occurrences of the power electronics equipment are simulated, and the results are the input of the FC-PMU. The FC-DFT results are then analyzed, showing that the equipment may deliver beneficial information for the control system operator and for early forensic analysis.

Aitor Ollacarizqueta

Abstract

CENER has developed an EMS to manage either microgrids or renewable generation plants hybridized with energy storage systems. Its first prototype has been validated at its facilities in the ATENEA microgrid, which have been previously simulated through RT-LAB using a OP4510 target.

The EMS consists of a SCADA where the user can configure almost any plant based on renewable generation systems, loads, electric vehicle, connection to utility grid, gen-set and different types of energy storage systems. Also, the EMS lets the user select between several strategies and plant control depending on the configuration chosen before and their interests.

Since the study focuses on the ATENEA microgrid, which is composed of lithium, flow and lead-acid energy storage systems, a gen-set, programmable loads, one electric car, solar generation and grid connection, this system has been modelled and then simulated in an OPAL-RT target.

Through a previous process of validation of every model as well as the communication system with the EMS, the built system allows to design, adjust, and validate the strategies and control systems before testing them in ATENEA.

Mike Mekkanen

Abstract

The development process of the microgrid controller (MGC) is that we first develop the controlling function in C that matches with the SIL preliminary algorithm developed by OPAL-RT/HYPERSIM. Secondly, a real HIL lightweight IED controller based on an iec61850 library is developed. Thirdly, we then test both the developed algorithm and the lightweight IED controller via various simulation scenarios. We perform testing scenarios of a developed MGS in a microgrid cyber-physical simulation subject to cyber-attacks in our lab. These testing are designed through performing two MGC testing scenarios. First, a delay attack is implemented, when the microgrid is islanded–the MGC monitors whole MG circuit breakers (CBs) specifically in this scenario—and the PCC CB should disconnect Load 4. Secondly, we test a packet manipulation on a measured data attack. External MGC HIL monitors the power generation as well as load consumption, in case (no balance) a trip command is issued to disconnect Load 3 via GOOSE. We then provide this development procedure for HIL MGC, which can communicate with the real-time simulator’s HYPERSIM simulation model over IEC 61850 GOOSE, as well as run the designed intelligent controlling algorithm and send the dispatching signal back to the real-time simulator model.

Shahab Karrari

Abstract

Low-inertia power systems can experience high rates of change of frequency and large frequency deviations during power imbalances. Inertia emulation using high power density storage systems such as a Flywheel Energy Storage System (FESS), can help limit the rate of change of frequency following sudden changes in generation or demand. In this presentation, a new adaptive inertia emulation controller for a high-speed FESS is proposed. To validate the behavior of the FESS with the proposed control design, the controller is implemented on a real 60 kW high-speed FESS, using the concept of rapid control prototyping. The performance of the FESS, equipped with the adaptive inertia emulation controller, is evaluated by means of Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) simulations using the real-time simulation model of a low voltage microgrid. To reduce the overall loop delay, the established PHIL setup uses fiber optic connections to the power amplifier and several I/O expansion units. The State-space Nodal (SSN) solver is also applied to reduce the simulation time step of the microgrid model. The results of PHIL simulation show that the FESS with the newly-proposed adaptive inertia emulation controller outperforms the previously-suggested adaptive control designs, in terms of reducing the maximum rate of change of frequency and limiting the maximum frequency deviation, while not demanding significantly more energy from the FESS.

Matias Diaz

Abstract

Modular Multilevel Cascaded Converters (MMCC) have attracted considerable attention from the power electronic and drive research community since their introduction at the beginning of 2000. Originally, MMCCs were proposed for High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission systems. Still, recently, they have been introduced into other fields, e.g., static compensators, wind energy conversion systems, and motor drives.

Among MMCCs, the Modular Multilevel Converter (M2C) is a well-established topology used extensively for HVDC transmission. However, the M2C has some difficulties in achieving good performance in applications where the electrical machine operates at a very low speed.

Therefore, other MMCC topologies, such as the Hexverter, the Modular Multilevel Matrix Converter, the Series-Shunt MMCC have been studied in the last few years. However, novel converters require complex implementations and control strategies that have hindered the number of works where experimental results of these topologies are reported.

In this context, this presentation introduces a joint project lead by the University of Santiago of Chile, in collaboration with OPAL-RT and Conecta Engineering, where a reconfigurable MMCC composed of 120 power modules is implemented using OPAL-RT MMCC modules. Thus, the testbed can perform rapid control prototyping testing and Power Hardware in The Loop analyses of novel topologies such as M3C, Hexverter and other novel topologies.

Catalin Gavriluta

Abstract

Smart grid applications, especially those focusing on the coordination of distributed flexibilities, include many devices governed by increasingly complex software architectures, all linked together by communication technology. In theory, some of these applications would have the potential to revolutionize the way the grid is being operated. However, in practice they are met with skepticism due to the uncertainties and vulnerabilities that these systems might introduce. Therefore, exhaustive testing and validation steps need to be undertaken before deployment to guarantee reliability. Approaching this task manually is extremely time-consuming and error prone. In this presentation we show an approach to automatically generate cyber-physical test beds which allow the evaluation of such applications. The proposed method uses PSAL (Power System Automation Language) to describe the cyber-physical system under test, i.e., the electrical network, the sensors, the actuators, as well as the various controllers/software components and their interconnections. Several model generators parse the PSAL code, and they automatically build a real-time simulation of the physical system; they establish various interfaces for the controllers to interact with the sensors and actuators; they package the controllers and deploy them to their designated locations; and they configure the data collection framework to enable the recording and analysis of experiment data.

Mukesh Singh

Abstract

The success of EVs depends on the charging infrastructure. Due to different charging standards, it is difficult for EV manufacturers to rely on any one standard. Therefore, there is a need to design a charging system which can fit in many charging protocols. This presentation will give an insight into the different charging standards and their probable solutions.

Balaji Mendi

Abstract

This paper presents the design and development of a wind turbine emulator (WTE), based on a separately excited DC motor, using an OPAL-RT digital simulator. The power-motor speed characteristics for different armature voltages in the motor are like the power-turbine speed characteristics for varying wind speeds in the turbine. WTE is a power electronic step-down chopper that is interfaced with a mathematical model of wind turbine present in the RT simulator. The wind turbine model generates a reference armature current that is compared with the actual armature current of the motor. The PI controller is used here to minimize the current error and provides a desired switching pulse to the MOSFET. The laboratory setup consists of a WTE that is coupled to a three-phase permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) as a standalone system. The turbine model and PMSG model are presented in this paper. The effectiveness of this RT-LAB-based WTE is verified by simulation and experimental results under various wind speed and load change conditions.

Preeti Gupta

Abstract

Precision is the most important aspect for designing, controlling, or validating any power system—and due to this, real-time simulation is growing. Especially in design, it allows accurate modeling of a system, which is the baseline of design. Therefore, in this work, a switching function-based model of a three-phase voltage source inverter is transformed into a real-time model using OPAL-RT’s real time simulator (OP4510) with hardware-in-the-loop technology for its implementation in an actual power system. For the validation of its behavior in real time, it has been compared to the detailed inverter model having the same input variables and control dynamics. The results reveal that the proposed inverter model keeps the total harmonic distortion within limits as per the latest grid code and, at the same time, it maintains the required accuracy for the system. Further, this work shows the importance of real-time simulation by comparing its mode of simulation with other offline modes of simulations such as normal, accelerator and rapid accelerator.

Renzo Espinoza

Abstract

This work proposes an interfacing technique that uses the built-in three-phase transmission line models available in simulation platforms to perform Root Mean Square (RMS)-Electromagnetic Transient (EMT) real-time, multi-domain and multi-rate co-simulation. The main objective of this paper is to show the application of this kind of simulation in hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing of protective relays. Two well-known platforms are considered in this work: OPAL-RT with its ePHASORSIM tool is used for RMS simulation, and RTDS is used for EMT simulation. However, the proposed technique is sufficiently general to be applied to other real-time simulation platforms that have similar built-in transmission line models. To convert waveforms to phasors, a non-buffered rapid curve fitting method was implemented to attend to real-time constraints. During the testing phase of this research, tests for the HIL were completed using an actual transmission line protection relay. The presented results of tests highlight the benefits of the proposed interfacing technique.

Louis Filliot

Abstract

With the increasing level of penetration of renewable production and the need for long-distance energy transport, Multi-Terminal DC grids (MTDC) have become a crucial field of research for the future development of wide-scale DC grids.

These MTDC grids pose several technical challenges: protecting the DC grid against electrical faults; transforming DC voltage; and controlling the flow of energy in a meshed system. The possible technical solutions and new technologies addressing these issues need to be assessed through real-time and HIL simulations to demonstrate the system’s performance.

With that perspective, an MTDC HIL test bench is being developed at the Supergrid Institute to test and validate any proposed control and protection solution.

On this HIL setup, several Raspberry PIs are used to simulate in real time the different IEDs of the system: protection relays, station supervisors, DC Grid Control. These IEDs communicate with each other and with the electrical model using the IEC61850 communication protocol.

The electrical benchmark is a 4 Terminal DC Grid, modelled with HYPERSIM and running in real time with an OP5700 simulator.

The HYPERSIM model uses a Graphical User Interface (GUI), coded in Python and using the Python API provided by HYPERSIM. This interface allows a user to interact with the electrical system: launch a start-up sequence to connect the DC Grid, simulate a fault to test the implemented protection strategy.

Sanjeev Pannala

Abstract

The distribution system has undergone tremendous upgrades that have leaned toward a more carbon-free, reliable, and resilient infrastructure. This has been made possible by incorporating more sophisticated controllers in conventional generation, smart inverters based distributed generation, automatic load regulators, seamless interfacing of mini, micro and nano grids etc. To the contrary, the system is exposed to different events resulting from intermittent generation, as well as the unpredictable and uncertain behavior of loads in distribution networks. Real-time digital simulators from OPAL-RT let the power professionals study these events through digital twin models and by tweaking system parameters to create diverse and disruptive steady, dynamic, and transient event signatures–and also provides real datasets through the direct interface of sensors, PMUs, remote terminal units, smart measurement/meters, for testing and validating the AI-centric data analytics. Online testing of data analytical tools is made easy through real-time simulators by OPAL-RT as it has dedicated input and output digital/analog channels for export/import signals from/to power system models and supports standard communication protocols such as DNP3, C31.118-2011, etc. This presentation revolves around the wide usage of OPAL-RT’s real-time digital simulations in prospective testing environments of data analytics through real and simulated distribution phasor measurement units. Actual case studies are emphasized in the presentation.

Raju Chintakindi

Abstract

Wide Area Monitoring and Smart Automation (WAMSA) is today’s innovative research area under smart grid execution to overcome real-time protection difficulties. Modern communications and information processing technologies offer outstanding real-time benefits. The development of big data applications and satellite uplinks are rapidly changing. Several new measurement devices are being incorporated into an advanced smart grid metering infrastructure. In this process, PMUs can sense, converting signals from voltage and current into digital form under real-time wide-area monitoring systems. In modern power systems’ real-time applications point of view, big data analytics are playing a vital role with increasingly popular technological concept that contains smart electricity facilities, for instance, smart power control, energy utilization, and management. Initially, it emphasized smart grids, modern data analytics, massive-scale information control, and reliable monitoring methods with the extreme size of data required. This paper summarizes the PMU setup and installation overview in the Unified Real-time Dynamic State Measurement project (URTDSM) with the synchrophasor based wide-area monitoring system in India. The novelty of this presentation is to focus on big data potential functions and practices like fault detection, transient stability, load forecasting, and power quality monitoring into real-time wide-area monitoring.

Georg Lauss

Abstract

Part 1: The global power system’s transition to nearly 100% renewable-based generation presents new challenges not only in terms of control strategies but also in terms of tools required to perform HIL simulations. In this context, conventional generators such as synchronous machines may be gradually replaced by power electronic converters or similar generation units. HIL simulation setups of large grid models with multiple switching inverters are a challenge due to the high-level of accuracy required. The coupling of the power electronic domain with the network-level domain is currently the major issue to overcome. Two approaches are followed: the first one involves the coupling of the FPGA and the CPU model, while the second one uses the ARTEMiS library.

Part 2: Non-real-time or offline simulation methodologies using numerical solving techniques for network or component models have their limitations with respect to the necessity of high complexity. Therefore, they may prove insufficient with respect to resulting simulation accuracy or computation time. Real-time simulation based HIL simulation testing can overcome these issues, because physical hardware equipment, including the entire control system, is interlinked with the simulated network model via HIL interfaces. This enables natural coupling which guarantees the conservation of instantaneous power via the conservation of the through and across quantities at interfaces as exists in the real-world system.

Biography

Georg Lauss received the Dipl.-Ing. degree from the Johannes Kepler University JKU Linz, Austria, in 2006 and jointly from the Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule ETHZ, Zürich, Switzerland, and the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Paris, France. He is a researcher with the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria. His main interests include electromagnetic systems, power electronics, system and control theory, mathematical methods for optimized control systems, hardware-in-the-loop simulation systems, and real-time simulation for electromagnetic power systems. Georg Lauss is the Chairman of the IEEE WG P2004 Recommended Practice for Hardware-inthe-Loop (HIL) Simulation Based Testing of Electric Power Apparatus and Controls and the IEEE PES Task Force on Real-Time Simulation of Power and Energy Systems.

Bolívar Escobar

Abstract

The advancement of technology has allowed the exponential development of electric engineering applications, and several of these fields are: digital simulation in real-time in conjunction with synchro-phasor measurements in electrical power systems; the generation of data applying the Monte Carlo method; and the analysis of data by application of data mining techniques. Research on load-shedding schemes, together with the application of the above-mentioned fields, allows the prediction of certain events that have caused the disconnections of large amounts of load, and even the operating output (blackout) of large power systems, around the world.

The present project proposes a methodology for the implementation of a load shedding scheme as a function of voltage and frequency that allows, through an indicator, and by means of an indicator calculated in real time through a previously-trained regressor, to determine the amount of load to be disconnected after the occurrence of a contingency for loss of generation.

To do this, a comprehensive real-time digital simulation platform is implemented, which uses OPAL-RT’s ePHASORsim, together with the functionalities of CENACE’s WAMS system, WAProtector, to execute a Software in the loop (SIL) to perform adaptive load shedding in real time, triggered when the indicator condition calculated by the regressor previously-trained with simulation results obtained from PowerFactory is met.

Ricky Zhang

Abstract

Our UPS HIL Testbench presentation will focus on how we used OPAL-RT’s solution in the UPS HIL system design to speed up the product launch, as well as key parameters Gs Understanding and TSB bridge usage in the UPS HIL system.

Isao Iyoda

Abstract

Japan intends on attaining carbon neutrality before 2050, and offshore wind farms are one of the primary energy sources that will help to realize this ambition. Since the sea depth around Japan is more that 50m, facilities of transmission systems for offshore wind farms must be installed on floating platforms. Middle frequency (500Hz) convertors are a promising equipment that reduce the weight and volume of transformers used for substations on the floating platform. MMC is a solution that can operate at 500Hz with less switching loss. It however requires much system analysis to develop and tune the control system. Real-time simulators are a useful tool for small academic laboratories to study on MMC. It saves risks of hardware trouble caused by mis-operation of the control system. An example of studies–such as the fundamental operations of scaled models (200V, 1A) of MMC convertors, real time simulation for tuning of control systems, as well as harmonics studies in our laboratory–will be introduced in the presentation

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