PEDES 2012 - IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems

In power hardware in the loop (PHIL) simulations, a real-time simulated power system is interfaced to a piece of hardware, usually called hardware under test (HuT). A PHIL test can be realized using several simulation tools. Among them Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) is an ideal tool to perform c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dargahi, M., Ghosh, Arindam, Ledwich, G., zare, F.
Other Authors: Dr Tomy Sebastian
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8914
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Summary:In power hardware in the loop (PHIL) simulations, a real-time simulated power system is interfaced to a piece of hardware, usually called hardware under test (HuT). A PHIL test can be realized using several simulation tools. Among them Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) is an ideal tool to perform complex power system simulations in near real-time. Stable operation of the entire system, along with the accuracy of simulation results are the main concerns regarding a PHIL simulation. In this paper, a simulated power network on RTDS will be interfaced to HuT through a voltage source converter (VSC). Issues around stability and other interface problems are studied and a new method to stabilize some unstable PHIL cases is proposed. PHIL simulation results in PSCAD and RSCAD are presented.