Real-Time Simulation Models for Photovoltaic Cells and Arrays in Opal-RT and Typhoon -HIL
Channel: Luigi Vanfretti
Date: 2020-07-13

IEEE PES General Meeting 2020, pre-recorded presentation of paper no.: 20PESGM100.
Presenter: Prottay Adhikari.

Citation:
Xinlan Jia, Prottay M. Adhikari, and Luigi Vanfretti "Real-Time Simulation Models for Photovoltaic Cells and Arrays in Opal-RT and Typhoon-HIL," In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE PES General Meeting, August 2-6, 2020.

Paper:
https://ecse.rpi.edu/~vanfrl/documents/publications/conference/2020/CP173_Cici_RT_PV_Models.pdf

Models: 
https://github.com/ALSETLab/pvmodel2020

Abstract—The increase of solar power generation in the last decade makes reliance on this energy source of great importance, and highlights the need of studying photo-voltaic (PV) cells and
modeling their behaviors. Consequently, efficient and accurate mathematical modeling and simulation of PV cells have become very important for different studies, e.g. their use in microgrids
and as distributed energy resources in the grid. This paper reports a custom, homogeneous, cross-platform, real-time simulation model for PV cells, modules & arrays; and characterizes their performances when compared to other existing models. Once the model was successfully verified, its performance was analyzed in two different real-time hardware architectures: (i) OPAL RT OP5030 Simulator with OP4520 Expansion unit and (ii) Typhoon HIL 603 Simulator.