InfiniBand-Based Real-Time Simulation of HVDC, STATCOM and SVC Devices with Custom-Of-The-Shelf PCs and FPGAs

Publication date : May 2006
Paper File : hvdc_scv_isie06_final_paper.pdf

Authors

Simon Abourida, Jean Bélanger, Christian Dufour,

Abstract

This paper presents a real-time simulator for large power network based on Custom-Of-The-Shelf technologies, all embedded in the RT-LAB real-time simulation platform. This platform uses Pentium, Xeon, Opteron-based PCs (multi-CPUs and/or dual-core configurations) or even Xilinx FPGA cards for computational engines and InfiniBand communication fabric for fast inter-PCs communications. The real-time PCs runs under well-known operating systems QNX or RedHawk Linux while the main user control interface is either Simulink or LabView. The paper demonstrates the real-time simulation of complete single-pole 12-pulse HVDC system on dual-CPU, dual-core 2.2 GHz Opteron PC under 15 microseconds time step. It also demonstrates the real-time simulation of complex power system devices like SVC, STATCOM and more general power systems like the Kundur network.

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