TY - GEN
T1 - Flexible Intelligent Real-time dc-ac grid Emulator (FIRE)
T2 - 11th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2019
AU - Debnath, Suman
AU - Zheng, Sheng
AU - Watson, Nathaniel
AU - Campbell, Steven
AU - Zeng, Rong
AU - Chinthavali, Madhu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076725044&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ECCE.2019.8912740
DO - 10.1109/ECCE.2019.8912740
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076725044
T3 - 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2019
SP - 1060
EP - 1067
BT - 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 29 September 2019 through 3 October 2019
ER -
