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Real-Time Simulation and Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbed for Distribution Synchrophasor Applications

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  • Matthias Stifter

    (Center for Energy, Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna 1210, Austria
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Jose Cordova

    (Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Center for Advanced Power Systems, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Jawad Kazmi

    (Center for Energy, Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna 1210, Austria)

  • Reza Arghandeh

    (Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Center for Advanced Power Systems, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA)

Abstract

With the advent of Distribution Phasor Measurement Units (D-PMUs) and Micro-Synchrophasors (Micro-PMUs), the situational awareness in power distribution systems is going to the next level using time-synchronization. However, designing, analyzing, and testing of such accurate measurement devices are still challenging. Due to the lack of available knowledge and sufficient history for synchrophasors’ applications at the power distribution level, the realistic simulation, and validation environments are essential for D-PMU development and deployment. This paper presents a vendor agnostic PMU real-time simulation and hardware-in-the-Loop (PMU-RTS-HIL) testbed, which helps in multiple PMUs validation and studies. The network of real and virtual PMUs was built in a full time-synchronized environment for PMU applications’ validation. The proposed testbed also includes an emulated communication network (CNS) layer to replicate bandwidth, packet loss and collisions conditions inherent to the PMUs data streams’ issues. Experimental results demonstrate the flexibility and scalability of the developed PMU-RTS-HIL testbed by producing large amounts of measurements under typical normal and abnormal distribution grid operation conditions.

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  • Matthias Stifter & Jose Cordova & Jawad Kazmi & Reza Arghandeh, 2018. "Real-Time Simulation and Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbed for Distribution Synchrophasor Applications," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(4), pages 1-21, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:11:y:2018:i:4:p:876-:d:140275
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