PEMSES Center houses state-of-the-art equipment for both hardware experimentation and real-time simulation.The lab is equipped with the latest tools and instrumentation necessary for development of power electronic circuits and systems for high power applications.
SAKOR dynamometer
The new line of SAKOR motor testing dynamometers offers high-accuracy testing for designers and manufacturers of electric motors of any size, for use in applications ranging from large industrial equipment to consumer appliances, including fans, refrigerators, and washing machines. They have been optimized so that individual machines can test the widest possible range of motor sizes and still maintain necessary accuracy tolerances. SAKOR systems meet the standards’ tight tolerances and exacting requirements regarding data precision and accuracy. Capable of precisely measuring motor efficiency, these dynamometers provide an essential tool to engineers seeking to reduce fossil fuel consumption and enhance energy efficiency to meet strict environmental standards and regulations.
Typhoon HIL Microgid Testbed
Tyhphoon HIL Microgrid Testbed is collection of HIL devices with integrated protection relays, microgrid controllers and diesel gensets. The main purpose of the Microgrid Testbed is to comprehensively test controller’s hardware, firmware, software and communications under all operating conditions including faults in both the islanded and grid-connected mode. Moreover, Microgrid Testbed can perform all its tests and generate its test reports also in the fully automatic mode, thus boosting the productivity and improving test coverage even further. The features of the Microgrid HIL testbed at PEMSES center are:
HIL Units – 3×604 model HIL units from typhoon
Relays – 1xSEL-751 Relay
Genset – 1xWoodward Easygen3000 Genset
Grid Simulator
Gird simulator emulates the real grid and it is used for testing the 4 quadrant operation of a converter at variable frequency. The capabilities of the grid simulator at PEMSES center are:
Power – 30KVA, 0-300V, DC and AC
Frequency range – 30-100Hz
Operation – 4-quadrant
Interface – GPIB, USB, RS232 and Ethernet protocol
dSPACE
dSPACE is a rapid controller prototyping tool and it provides a real-time interface between the Simulink model and the converter. PEMSES contains the dSPACE with the following capabilities:
Processor – Dual Core 2GHz Freescale QorlQ P5020 processor, 1GB DRAM, 128MB Flash Memory,
FPGA – Xilinx Kintex-7 XC7K325T
Analog Input – 8 14bit 10MSps channels and 24 16bit 1MSps channels
Analog Output – 16 16bit 1MSps channels
Operating voltage – -10V to 10V
Digital IO – 60 channels
Typhoon HIL 600
Typhoon HIL is useful for real-time Hardware-In-Loop testing. The operation of a controller for a converter can be tested in real-time simulation using Typhoon HIL unit before deploying it for an actual converter. The Typhoon HIL unit present in our lab has the following capabilities:
Number of cores – 6
PWM Resolution – 20ns
Analog outputs – 16
Analog inputs – 8
Digital I/Os – 32
SiC Converters
This compact SiC MOSFET based converter can be used in various applications like grid tied converter, electric machine drives and for testing EV drives. The salient features of the converter are:
Manufacturer – Agile Switch
Configuration – Three H-bridges
Power rating – 50 kW
Device voltage rating – 1200 V
Device current rating – 300 A
FPGA Board
Altera MAX II family FPGA controller board designed and developed in PEMSES, UH. It can be used for implementing closed loop feedback control system and generating gate pulses for power converter. Key features of this board are:
1. Dual independent 250MHz clock source
2. 32 independent gate drive signal generation.
3. Output logic level of the gate drive pulses can be modified to 15V or 5V
4. Four channel parallel DAC
5. Interfacing with TI 28335 Delfino Experimenters Board.
6. 8- ADC Channels
7. Provision for unipolar and bipolar ADC
8. Four layered board with enhanced EMC features
Thermal Chamber
Thermal chamber in PEMSES center is used for high temperature testing of the gate driver and converters. The thermal chamber testing capabilities are:
Low Temperature: -68C
High Temperature: +175C
Interior volume: 2.3 Cu Ft