Abstract
Grid modernization efforts are leading to increased penetration of power electronics in the existing alternating current (ac) bulk power systems (BPS). Some examples of power electronics based applications that are being developed in BPS include high-voltage direct current (HVdc) systems, renewable generation systems, energy storage systems, and others. One of the requirements to succeed in the goals of grid modernization (like increased efficiency and reliability) is to setup a platform that can evaluate basic building blocks of such systems. For example, the basic building block of a modular multilevel converter (MMC)-based HVdc system is a submodule (SM). The evaluation platform will provide means to innovate new SM circuit architectures, new semiconductor devices in the SM, new gate-drivers, new controllers, and others. The flexible intelligent real-time dc-ac grid emulator (FIRE) platform incorporates the evaluation capability to evaluate the basic building blocks. The FIRE platform incorporates this evaluation capability through the power electronic hardware-in-the-loop (PE-HIL) concept. The PE-HIL for MMC-HVdc system can evaluate SMs in the MMC. In this paper, the design of amplifier required to perform PE-HIL simulation is presented. Experimental results of the amplifier and the simulation results of the PE-HIL concept utilizing the amplifier are presented.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2019 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 1060-1067 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781728103952 |
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| State | Published - Sep 2019 |
| Event | 11th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2019 - Baltimore, United States Duration: Sep 29 2019 → Oct 3 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2019 |
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Conference
| Conference | 11th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2019 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Baltimore |
| Period | 09/29/19 → 10/3/19 |
Funding
This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan(http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).