TY - GEN
T1 - Hybrid subsea power cable emulator
AU - Viglus, Francisco Jose
AU - Lobo Heldwein, Marcelo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/5/24
Y1 - 2019/5/24
N2 - This work proposes a new transmission line emulation system designed to test the performance of subsea power electronics systems within a power hardware-in-the-loop (P-HIL) framework. The emulator is composed of cascaded lumped-parameter line equivalent sections, where all resistors of the transmission line electric model are replaced by regenerative power converters. These are employed to emulate a given behavior of relatively wide frequency band loss free resistors. Thus, most of the ohmic losses in a given test setup are avoided and the energy can be injected back to the grid. Furthermore, this emulator allows to reproduce the most significant harmonics including some of the resonance effects in the system under test. Many challenges and relevant topics of power electronics are discussed. These include high performance converters, power ripple across the dc-link of the ac-dc rectifiers, state of the art gallium nitride (eGaN) power devices, and the proposed control structure.
AB - This work proposes a new transmission line emulation system designed to test the performance of subsea power electronics systems within a power hardware-in-the-loop (P-HIL) framework. The emulator is composed of cascaded lumped-parameter line equivalent sections, where all resistors of the transmission line electric model are replaced by regenerative power converters. These are employed to emulate a given behavior of relatively wide frequency band loss free resistors. Thus, most of the ohmic losses in a given test setup are avoided and the energy can be injected back to the grid. Furthermore, this emulator allows to reproduce the most significant harmonics including some of the resonance effects in the system under test. Many challenges and relevant topics of power electronics are discussed. These include high performance converters, power ripple across the dc-link of the ac-dc rectifiers, state of the art gallium nitride (eGaN) power devices, and the proposed control structure.
KW - Extreme Performance Single Phase Rectifiers
KW - Power Hardware-in-the-loop (P-HIL)
KW - Subsea Variable Speed Drives (VSD)
KW - Transmission Line Emulator
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067093278&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/APEC.2019.8722212
DO - 10.1109/APEC.2019.8722212
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85067093278
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC
SP - 3373
EP - 3379
BT - 34th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 34th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2019
Y2 - 17 March 2019 through 21 March 2019
ER -