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.