Abstract
The inclusion of multiple Distributed Energy Resources in the modern distribution grid, which are integrated in the grid via high frequency power electronic components, imposes the need to incorporate the transient behavior of those components in the traditional node based simulation of distribution grid. The different simulation time steps associated with this interaction is addressed by incorporating hardware assisted (FPGA) co-simulation platforms. This co-simulation platform can capture simultaneously time-steps of tenths of μs and less than one μs. This is achieved by exploiting the inherent parallelism of FPGAs in combination with customized modeling of power electronic components so as to accurately simulate them. Those simulation models are fed to the node based grid simulation running in the general purpose machine, enabling the capture of all transient phenomena for ensuring operational integrity, monitoring and control of the grid. As proof of concept of our work in progress, the implementation of a one phase PWM full bridge inverter is demonstrated, and results obtained by Matlab/Simulink and FPGA prove the models’ validity.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Faruque, M.O., Strasser, T., Lauss, G., Jalili-Marandi, V., Forsyth, P., Dufour, C., Dinavahi, V., Monti, A., Kotsampopoulos, P., Martinez, J.A., Strunz, K., Saeedifard, M., Wang, X., Shearer, D., Paolone, M.: Real-time simulation technologies for power systems design, testing, and analysis. IEEE Power Energy Technol. Syst. J. 2, 63–73 (2015)
Matar, M., Bayoumi, A.M.: An FPGA-based real-time simulator for the analysis of electromagnetic transients in electrical power systems (2009)
Dommel, H.W.: Electromagnetic Transients Program Theory Book, vol. 483. Bonneville Power Administration, Portland (1986)
Watson, N., Arrillaga, J.: Power systems electromagnetic transients simulation. IEE Power Energy Ser. 39, 449 (2003)
Hollman, J.A.: Step by step eigenvalue analysis with EMTP discrete time solutions. New Methodology Test Cases (2006)
Hui, S.Y.R., Morrall, S.: Generalised associated discrete circuit model for switching devices. IEE Proc. Sci. Meas. Technol. 141, 57–64 (1994)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
About this paper
Cite this paper
Tzanis, N., Proiskos, G., Birbas, M., Birbas, A. (2018). FPGA-Assisted Distribution Grid Simulator. In: Voros, N., Huebner, M., Keramidas, G., Goehringer, D., Antonopoulos, C., Diniz, P. (eds) Applied Reconfigurable Computing. Architectures, Tools, and Applications. ARC 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10824. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78890-6_51
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78890-6_51
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-78889-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-78890-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)