Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation for Applied Science, a Review to Highlight Its Merits and Challenges
The last thirty years have brought an evolution of electrical power systems. The integration of renewable energy and energy storage, dynamic loads, or distributed resources based on power electronics, including communications systems and protocols, is usual. Fortunately, technological advances have...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2025-02-01
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| Series: | Inventions |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5134/10/1/19 |
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| Summary: | The last thirty years have brought an evolution of electrical power systems. The integration of renewable energy and energy storage, dynamic loads, or distributed resources based on power electronics, including communications systems and protocols, is usual. Fortunately, technological advances have also brought tools to face the complex field of electrical component integration to the power system, such as the real-time power-hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) simulation. This paper argues why PHIL simulation is a mighty tool for addressing intelligent design, modeling, and computing methods to address complex power systems. Nevertheless, any promising technology can be misunderstood, reducing its positive effect. This article uses two inverters connected to a microgrid to develop the steps from conceptualizing an idea to a PHIL simulation, highlighting the merits, drawbacks, and lessons learned. Two perspectives are developed. First, the multiple, even complex, details required for furnishing a PHIL simulation are described. Second, reflections on how PHIL simulations enhance the scientific impact of the research compared to offline simulations or scale prototypes are made, enabling the transition from academic to applied research to attend to the challenges of modern power systems. The successful results of the microgrid PHIL simulation are shown to prove the merits of this approach. |
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| ISSN: | 2411-5134 |