UPV
UPV
UPV
UPV

Renewable Energy Lab

The Laboratory for Advanced Control of Electric Systems with nearly 100% power electronics penetration, located at the Polytechnic City of Innovation, hosts technical equipment used in several research lines related to renewable energy. The research team who works at this laboratory aims to simulate in real-time the functioning of complex systems for the generation and storage of renewable energy, as well as validate the control systems in extreme conditions.

The laboratory is equipped thanks to the funding obtained through the FEDER IDIFEDER/2018/036 project.

FEDER IDIFEDER/2018/036

Contact

Ramón Blasco
rblasco@upv.es

The Laboratory for Advanced Control of Electric Systems with nearly 100% power electronics penetration, located at the Polytechnic City of Innovation, hosts technical equipment used in several research lines related to renewable energy. The research team who works at this laboratory aims to simulate in real-time the functioning of complex systems for the generation and storage of renewable energy, as well as validate the control systems in extreme conditions.

The laboratory is equipped thanks to the funding obtained through the FEDER IDIFEDER/2018/036 project.

FEDER IDIFEDER/2018/036

Contact

Ramón Blasco
rblasco@upv.es

Equipment

Integración y control de plantas eólicas off-shore

The laboratory has a wind farm digital twin with the following characteristics:

  • Real-time simulation capacity for more than 27 wind turbines, including PWM models with network converter and turbine converter and dual-mass mechanical modelling or complete aeroelastic modelling of the wind-power generator.
  • Converter control:
    • Can be validated using SiL (software-in-the-loop) testing, control replicas (hardware-in-the-loop testing) or a combination of both.
    • DSP systems for Ethercat-based wind turbine control (up to 20 converters).
    • Ethercat-based wind farm controller.
  • Protection:
    • Schneider MICOM series 5 relays (ANSI functions 21, 25, 46, 49, 50/51N, 50/51P, 50DF, 59/27, 64W, 67N, 67P, 78, 79, 81, 87L).
    • IEC 61850-9-2LE process bus.
    • IEC 61850-GOOSE.
  • Real-time simulation of MMC converters based on FPGA:
    • MMC converter stations with a total of 6000 cells (half bridge, full bridge, hybrids).
    • Simulation time steps under a microsecond.
    • SiL valve control in FPGA.
    • SiL pole control in CPU.
    • ENTSO-e connection protocol for connecting CHiL control replicas.
    • Small-scale 15 kVA MMC prototype.
  • Network emulator:
    • 21 kVA/50 kHz linear amplifier for connecting external equipment (micronetwork with PMSG and DFIG test benches).
    • Connection to storage systems in grid-forming batteries.

 

Capacities

The laboratory has been designed to be highly flexible and it can be used for other types of systems, such as microgrids, energy storage in batteries, electric vehicle charging, smart grids and for
the real-time assessment of electric vehicle control systems.

In addition, the use of this laboratory is open to other research groups and companies requiring this kind of facility to validate their products or research results.