- By:
- Dong, Zerui; Debnath, Suman ; Li, Wei; Xia, Qianxue; Marthi, Phani Ratna Vanamali ; Chakraborty, Sudipta
- Page Number:
- 3160-3167
- Issue Number:
- -
- Book Title:
- 2021 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)
- Publication Date:
- November 9, 2023
- Publisher Location:
- IEEE, New Jersey, United States of America
- Conference Name:
- Thirteenth Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)
- Conference Location:
- Vancouver, Canada
- Conference Sponsor:
- IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), IEEE Industrial Applications Society (IAS) and IEEE
- View DOI Listing:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE47101.2021.9595731
Abstract
Multiport autonomous reconfigurable solar power plant (MARS) has been proposed for integrated development of photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage system (ESS) that can connect to high-voltage direct current (HVdc) and alternating current (ac) transmission grid. To de-risk the development of this complex integrated system that consists of hundreds to thousands of power electronics modules, a controller hardware-in-the-loop (cHIL) test setup will be extremely beneficial. The cHIL testing can be used for evaluation of modules as well as the hierarchical control system in MARS. With the unique configuration of power electronics modules in MARS, it becomes necessary to develop custom-designed real-time simulation models in the cHIL setup in absence of off-the-shelf models. In this paper, high-fidelity dynamic model of MARS, control algorithms at the lower level, and required communication algorithms are developed and optimized for real-time performance in the cHIL setup. Real-time experimental results from the cHIL are provided.
