Real Time Simulation of Wind Farm Connected MMC-HVDC System
Naini Raju Manchala1, Sree Devi J2, Raja Shekar P Mandi3, Meera K.S4
1Naini Raju M, Senior Research Fellow, CPRI, Bengaluru (Karnataka), India.
2Smt. J Sree Devi, Joint Director, Power Systems Division (PSD), CPRI, Bengaluru (Karnataka), India.
3Dr. Raja Shekar P. Mandi, Director, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, REVA University, Karnataka), India.
4Meera K S, Addional Director, Power System Division (PSD), CPRI, Bangalore (Karnataka), India.
Manuscript received on 23 February 2020 | Revised Manuscript received on 06 March 2020 | Manuscript Published on 18 March 2020 | PP: 46-52 | Volume-8 Issue-6S March 2020 | Retrieval Number: F10100386S20/2020©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.F1010.0386S20
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Abstract: Real time simulators play a major role in R&D of Offshore wind farm connected modular multilevel converter (MMC)-HVDC system. These simulators are used for testing the actual prototype of controllers or protection equipment required for the system under study. Modular multilevel converter comprises of number of sub modules (SMs) like Half/ full bridge cells. While computing time domain Electromagnetic transients (EMTs) with the system having large number of SMs pose a great challenge. This computational burden will be more when simulated in real time. To overcome this, several authors proposed equivalent mathematical model of MMC. This paper proposes the real time simulation start-up of offshore wind farm connected modular multilevel converter (MMC)-HVDC system. This paper also describes about how the above said systems is simulated in OPAL-RT based Hypersim software.
Keywords: Modular Multilevel Converter, offshore Wind Farm, Real-Time Simulator, FPGA.
Scope of the Article: Real-Time Information Systems