TY - GEN
T1 - Real-Time Simulation of Modular Multilevel Converters
AU - Debnath, Suman
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12/3
Y1 - 2018/12/3
N2 - Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) are one of the most popular configurations of voltage-source converters (VSCs) used in applications like high-voltage direct current (HVdc) transmission systems and flexible alternate current transmission systems (FACTS). They have a large number of modules with thousands of capacitors and semiconductor devices, which make it hard to simulate in real-time. In this paper, a low-cost high-performance computing (HPC) configuration to simulate MMCs in real-time is proposed. The configuration uses a HPC digital signal processor (DSP) with 8 cores. An advanced MMC simulation algorithm is implemented using HPC techniques to optimize the real-time performance in the DSP. A comparison is performed with existing solutions to show the superiority of the proposed configuration and algorithms.
AB - Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) are one of the most popular configurations of voltage-source converters (VSCs) used in applications like high-voltage direct current (HVdc) transmission systems and flexible alternate current transmission systems (FACTS). They have a large number of modules with thousands of capacitors and semiconductor devices, which make it hard to simulate in real-time. In this paper, a low-cost high-performance computing (HPC) configuration to simulate MMCs in real-time is proposed. The configuration uses a HPC digital signal processor (DSP) with 8 cores. An advanced MMC simulation algorithm is implemented using HPC techniques to optimize the real-time performance in the DSP. A comparison is performed with existing solutions to show the superiority of the proposed configuration and algorithms.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85060304413&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ECCE.2018.8558031
DO - 10.1109/ECCE.2018.8558031
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85060304413
T3 - 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018
SP - 5196
EP - 5203
BT - 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 10th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018
Y2 - 23 September 2018 through 27 September 2018
ER -