Experiment Specification TC8.TS01.ES02
Experiment Specification Definition
| ID | TC8.TS01.ES02 |
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| Reference to Test Specification | Validation of the performance of PV systems in providing grid voltage control functionality |
| Title of Experiment | PHIL test: validation of PV systems functionality of participating in voltage control |
| Research Infrastructure | CEA/INES (France) |
| Experiment Realisation | The experiments require testing PV inverter hardware connected to a grid simulated in a real-time simulator via power amplifiers. Other PV systems and the MAS-based distributed voltage control scheme are also implemented and embedded in the real-time simulator along with the studied grid. The currents of the PV hardware inverters are measured by sensors and sent to the real-time simulator. The control signals generated by the PV inverters’ agents that are simulated in real-time simulators are directed to the PV hardware inverters |
| Experiment Setup (concrete lab equipment) | The experimental setup is as shown in the figure below.
Overall, following are the lab equipment included in the experiment:
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| Experimental Design and Justification | Different operating conditions will be applied in order to generate under/over voltage issues within the simulated grid. Consequently, the MAS will react to these voltage violations and therefore generate control signals to the hardware-PV inverter and other simulated ones. The reactive power exchange capability of the PV inverter hardware can be observed and validated by monitoring their reactive power absorption/injection as well as the improvement of voltage levels at their PCCs. Another objective of the experiment is to analyze potential issues that may arise from the dynamics of the PV inverter hardware when they respond to the voltage variation of the grid. |
| Precision of equipment and measurement uncertainty |
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| Storage of experiment data | Matlab files and csv files |
