Components Of The Rapid Control Prototyping Energy Conversion Kit

Summary of contents

The RCP-EC2K includes the hardware and software described in Tables 2.1 and 2.2 respectively. Details on the main components are provided in section 2.3 Main components of the RCP-EC2K kit.

Table 2.1 Hardware components of the Energy-Conversion Training kit

Component	Component part
Real-time simulator	OPAL-RT OP5600/OP4510/OP7000
Signal conditioning and data acquisition	OPAL-RT OP8660
IGBT-based Power Converter (2x)	FESTO 8857-10
Dynamometer: Four quadrant dynamometer capable of functioning either as a load or a prime mover.	FESTO 8540-00
Wound Rotor Induction Machine (WRIM)	FESTO 8505-A0
Wiring module for WRIM (access to rotor and stator circuits)	FESTO 8506-A0
Power source/supply	FESTO 8525-20
3 phase Power Bar (splitter)	FESTO 8895-00
Connection cables	FESTO 30013, 30011, 30012
Mechanical Coupling Device (hard rubber gear)	FESTO 8943-00
Mount rack	FESTO 8110
Line inductors	FESTO 8374-A0
Resistance Module	FESTO 8311

Table 2.2: Software components of the Energy-Conversion Training kit

Component	Component part
Real-time simulation software environment.	OPAL-RT’s RT-LAB
User interface software	OPAL-RT’s TestDrive

Main hardware and software components of the RCP-EC2K kit

OP5600/OP4510/OP7000 Real-Time Simulators

The RCP-EC2K kit features the OPAL-RT SIMULATOR. Simply put, the OPAL-RT Simulator constitutes the core of the RCP-EC2K system. The OP5600/OP4510/OP7000 real-time simulators are complete simulation systems comprising a powerful target computer, a flexible high-speed front-end processor, and signal conditioning stages. With multiple parallel cores capabilities,

These PC/FPGA-based simulators have the capacity to run, in real-time, elaborated MATLAB models that can represent the complex physical system, their associated controllers, or both. The execution of models with critical time steps can be performed by using inboard FPGA-based cards: execution times in the order of nanoseconds or a few microseconds can be achieved with this approach.