中国电气工程学报(英文) ›› 2018, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (1): 20-27.

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  • 出版日期:2018-03-25 发布日期:2019-10-31

Converter-Based Reconfigurable Real-Time Electrical System Emulation Platform

Yiwei Ma1, Jingxin Wang1, Fred Wang1,2,*, Leon M. Tolbert1,2   

  1. 1. CURENT, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA;
    2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
  • Online:2018-03-25 Published:2019-10-31
  • Contact: * E-mail: fred.wang@utk.edu.
  • About author:Yiwei Ma (S’13) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2009 and 2011, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests include modeling and control of power electronics interfacing converters for the renewable energy sources, multilevel converters, and microgrids. Jingxin Wang (S’13-M’15) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China, and Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University, in 2003, 2006, and 2011, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He is currently working as a research associate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests include high performance motor control, three-phase converter design, power flow control, and renewable energy. Fei (Fred) Wang (S’85-M’91-SM’99-F’10) received the B.S. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1982, 1985, and 1990, respectively, all in electrical engineering. Dr. Wang was a Research Scientist in the Electric Power Lab, University of Southern California, from 1990 to 1992. He joined the GE Power Systems Engineering Department, Schenectady, NY, as an Application Engineer in 1992. From 1994 to 2000, he was a Senior Product Development Engineer with GE Industrial Systems, Salem, VA. During 2000 to 2001, he was the Manager of Electronic & Photonic Systems Technology Lab, GE Global Research Center, Schenectady, NY and Shanghai, China. In 2001, he joined the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA as a Research Associate Professor and became an Associate Professor in 2004. From 2003 to 2009, he also served as the CPES Technical Director. Since 2009, he has been with The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab, Knoxville, TN as a Professor and the Condra Chair of Excellence in Power Electronics. He is a founding member and the Technical Director of the multi-university NSF/DOE Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT) led by The University of Tennessee. He has served as a Guest Changjiang Scholar Professor in Xi’An Jiaotong University since 2017. Dr. Wang is a fellow of U.S. National Academy of Inventors. His main research interests include wide bandgap power electronics, power electronics for transportation and grid applications. Leon M. Tolbert (S’88-M’91-SM’98-F’13) received the Bachelor’s, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1989, 1991, and 1999, respectively. He worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, from 1991 until 1999. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1999. He is currently the Min H. Kao Professor and Department Head in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Tennessee. He is a founding member for the National Science Foundation/Department of Energy Research Center, CURENT (Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks). He is also a part-time Senior Research Engineer with the Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In 2010, he was a visiting professor at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Dr. Tolbert is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of Tennessee and a Fellow of the IEEE. He was the recipient of the 2001 IEEE Industry Applications Society Outstanding Young Member Award, and six prize paper awards from the IEEE Industry Applications Society and IEEE Power Electronics Society. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics from 2007 to 2013. He was elected to serve as a Member-At-Large to the IEEE Power Electronics Society Advisory Committee for 2010-2012, Chair of the PELS Membership Committee from 2011-2012, and a member of the PELS Nominations Committee from 2012-2014. He was the Paper Review Chair for the Industry Power Converter Committee of the IEEE Industry Applications Society from 2014 to 2017.
  • Supported by:
    Supported primarily by the Engineering Research Center Program of the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy under NSF Award Number EEC-1041877 and the CURENT Industry Partnership Program.

Abstract: A Hardware Testbed(HTB) is developed for accurate and flexible emulation and testing of electrical power system and their control, measurement, and protection systems. In the HTB, modular and programmable power electronics converters are used to mimic the static and dynamic characteristics of electrical power components. This paper overviews the development, integration, and application of the HTB, covering emulation principle, hardware and software configuration, and example results of power system research using the HTB. The advantages of the HTB, compared with real-time digital simulation and downscaled hardware-based testing platform are discussed.

Key words: Emulation, modeling, real-time simulation