Opal-RT

The OP5600 family developed by OPAL-RT are tailored for multiple real-time simulation applications including Hardware-In-the-Loop testing and Rapid Control Protyping (RCP) for Microgrids, Power Systems, hybrid vehicles and Power Electronic System applications. The OP5600 family are adding advanced monitoring capabilities with scalable I/O and power calculation to OPAL-RT's product line of real-time digital simulator.

The OP5600 family allows different configurations for specific applications and is designed for the entire OPAL-RT software suite: eFPGAsim, MMC, eMEGAsim, HYPERSIM, and ePHASORsim.



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Features

The OP5600 family developed by OPAL-RT are tailored for multiple real-time simulation applications including Hardware-In-the-Loop testing and Rapid Control Protyping (RCP) for Microgrids, Power Systems, hybrid vehicles and Power Electronic System applications. The OP5600 family are adding advanced monitoring capabilities with scalable I/O and power calculation to OPAL-RT's product line of real-time digital simulator.

The OP5600 family allows different configurations for specific applications and is designed for the entire OPAL-RT software suite: eFPGAsim, MMC, eMEGAsim, HYPERSIM, and ePHASORsim.

  • Contains a powerful real-time target computer equipped with Xeon Intel� Xeon� Server Processor with up to 32 cores and running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux real-time operating system.
  • Supports two user-programmable FPGA-based I/O management options, the Xilinx Spartan-3 or the most powerful Virtex-6 FPGA processor.
  • Available expansion slots accommodate up to 8 signal conditioning and analog /digital converters modules with 16 or 32 channels each for a total of fast 128 analog or 256 discrete or a mix of analog and digital signals.
  • Offers versatile monitoring on the front side, with RJ45 and mini-BNC, and standard DB37 connectors on the back side to connect user equipment for HIL simulation and testing.
  • Acts as a single-target system or can be networked into a multiple-target PC cluster for complex applications capable of implementing large models with more than 3000 I/O channels running at a time step below 25 microseconds.

Hardware

1. PF511127S01


Items Quantity Description
Operating System 1 Redhat v2.6.29.6-opalrt-5
Chassis Type 1 OP5600 Chassis
CPU 2 Intel Xeon Six-Core 3.33GHz 12M Cache 6.4GT/s
Total Core # 12 -
Memory 4 1 GB
Motherboard X8DTL-I-O Supermicro Motherboard, Intel Xeon processor 5600/500 series, with QPI up to 6.4 GT/s

2. PF511127S02


Items Quantity Description
Operating System N/A None
Chassis Type 1 OP5600 Chassis
CPU N/A None
Total Core # N/A
Memory N/A None
Motherboard - None

Software

Core Software of OPAL-RT :

RT-LAB, fully integrated with MATLAB/Simulink, is the open real-time simulation software environment that has revolutionized the way model-based design is performed. RT-LAB's flexibility and scalability allow it to be used in virtually any simulation or control system application, and to add computing-power to simulations.

The RT-LAB environment is at the core of OPAL-RT simulation technology. It is the indispensable tool for successfully performing real-time simulations such as:

  • Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) tests.
  • Power-Hardware-In-the-Loop (PHIL) tests.
  • Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP)
  • Pure simulation to increase calculation speed.

Power Electronics Software suites :

ARTEMiS for High Precision, Real-Time Simulation of Electromechanical Systems.

ARTEMiS provides enhanced algorithms that ensure reliable, accurate, and fast fixed step-length compulsions, essential for high fidelity, high performance simulations, ARTEMiS was designed from the ground up to support real-time implementations of power systems simulations, dramatically improving computation speed while preserving accuracy. It is the only way of getting high precision, hard-real-time performance out of SimPowerSystems model.

  • Designed for Fast Simulation and Hardware-In-the-Loop.
  • Higher precision for linear circuits with high frequency components.
  • Better accuracy with nonlinear elements.
  • No numerical oscillations.
  • Easy to Install and Use.
  • Variable-step accuracy with fixed-step performance.

RT-EVENTS is a Simulink toolbox for the fixed-time-step simulation of hybrid system dynamics and discrete events asynchronous with respect to the simulation clock. As the RT-Events Blockset works with a fixed step size, it is therefore compatible with the Real Time Workshop (RTW) and RT-LAB and can be used for real-time applications.

  • Improved accuracy for discrete simulation of event-based systems.
  • Fast simulation of event-driven systems.

ePHASORsim Real-Time Transient Stability Simulator :

ePHASORsim simulates power system dynamic phenomena within fundamental frequency of the system. It is designed for large-scale power grids with thousands of buses, generators, transformers, transmission lines, loads and controllers. It uses a fundamental frequency solver optimized to compute RMS and angle values of voltage, current at every location of the systemwith a typical time step of a few milliseconds.

ePHASORsim is ideal as the backbone engine to implement operator training simulators, test SCADA systems, validate algorithms for complex global control and protection schemes.


HYPERSIM Power System Real-Time Digital Simulator :

HYPERSIM is the only real-time digital simulator with the power to simulate and analyze very large-scale power systems with more than 2000 three-phase buses.

It is used for factory acceptance and system integration testing, as well as for R&D works and commissioning tests.

Communication protocols standard to power system industry

  • IEC 61850-9-2-LE
  • DNP3
  • C37.118

IEC 61850-9-2-LE Overview -

  • Sample Values (IEC 61850-9-2-LE): Digital communication interface inmplementation to non conventional instrument transformers.
  • GOOSE provides a fast and reliable mechanism of transferring event data over entire substation networks.

Features -

  • Support of sampled values publisher/subscriber 50Hz.
  • 60 Hz/80 samples per cycle GPS time stamping for GOOSE messages and SV synchronization.
  • Several data types supported within Goose message (boolean, (un)signed integer, float 32/64, structure).

DNP3 Overview -

  • IEEE Standard for Electric Power Systems Communication: Distributed Network Protocol (IEEE std 1815 2012)
  • Achieve interoperability between substation and master stations or the electric utility, water, transportation and gas industries.

Features -

  • Can report/control data of more than 200 IEDs.
  • Bi-directional (report data and control devices).
  • Support both polled and unsolicited modes.
  • Support analog and digital data types.
  • Event Oriented data reporting.
  • High data integrity.
  • Configurable scan period to detect data changes.
  • Configurable event buffer size.

C37.118 Overview -

  • IEEE Standard for Synchrophasors for Power Systems: C37.118 (IEEE C37.118 - 2005)
  • Covers synchronized phasor measurements used in electric power systems.

Features -

  • Can handle 128 phasor inputs (128 magnitudes & 128 angles), 128 analog inputs and 128 digital inputs.
  • GPS synchronization (with Spectrum Tsync bus - level - timing board).
  • Supported Protocols: TCP, UDP.
  • Configure Nominal Frequency (50Hz or 60Hz).
  • Configure data reporting rate
  • Timestamp resolution given by the model step size
  • Number of simulated PMU limited by network card throughput, model step size and core resources.