Hybrid subsea power cable emulator

Francisco Jose Viglus, Marcelo Lobo Heldwein

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication34th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3373-3379
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781538683309
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 May 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event34th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2019 - Anaheim, United States
Duration: 17 Mar 201921 Mar 2019

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC
Volume2019-March

Conference

Conference34th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnaheim
Period17/03/1921/03/19

Keywords

  • Extreme Performance Single Phase Rectifiers
  • Power Hardware-in-the-loop (P-HIL)
  • Subsea Variable Speed Drives (VSD)
  • Transmission Line Emulator

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