Webinar: Challenges in modelling and simulation of HVDC equipment: Innovative approaches from the HVDC-WISE project

Date: 26th February 2025

Time: 11 AM CET

Registration: LINK

About the webinar:

Simulation of modern power systems with high penetration power electronics is challenging and needs exchanges of models in different ways. On the one hand, control schemes can be developed in one software environment and need to be used in another. For instance, engineers in power electronics can develop models and transmit them (as black boxes or not) to power system engineers. On the other hand, there is a need for model exchanges based on standards for interoperability issues while the actual standards do not always allow for modelling new devices. Finally, there is an interest in investigating promising simulation approaches different from the widely used root mean square (RMS) and electromagnetic transient (EMT) approaches. 

This webinar will reflect on how the HVDC-WISE project addressed these issues. Firstly, examples of the use of the Functional Mock-up Interface (fmi) standard to exchange models between MATLAB/Simulink and DigSilent PowerFactory will be shown. These examples from the project’s deliverable D4.2 Models and guidelines on modelling approaches and model description highlight the benefits and drawbacks of this method when compared to the re-development in DigSilent language (DSL). Secondly, the webinar will present the return on the experience of the creation of a library of HVDC equipment models based on CIM/CGMES (D4.3: Library of models). This includes a discussion on the modelling of dynamic behaviour (e.g. for control schemes) and the limitations of the standard to model DC elements. Thirdly, the principle, challenges and perspectives of power electronics modelling in the dynamic phasors domain will be presented with a focus on the achievements from the HVDC-WISE project and included in D4.2. 

Agenda:

  • Introduction to HVDC-WISE WP4 Enabling technologies for future AC/DC hybrid systems (Florent Morel, SuperGrid Institute)
  • Application of Functional Mock-up Interface for Model Exchange (Ning Yang. University of Strathclyde)
  • Creation of a library of models based on CIM/CGMES for HVDC equipment (Chavdar Ivanov, TenneT/gridDigIt;  and Georgii Tishenin, RWTH Aachen University)
  • Power electronics modelling in dynamic phasor domain (Georgii Tishenin,  RWTH Aachen University)

Related Project Deliverables

This webinar will highlight aspects of two project deliverables, which will be soon publicly available:

  • D4.2 Models and guidelines on modelling approaches and model description
  • D4.3: Library of models

Speakers

Florent Morel is an alumnus of École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Cachan, France. He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in the control of electrical drives from INSA de Lyon, France in 2004 and 2007 respectively. From 2007 to 2019, he was an Associate Professor at École Centrale de Lyon and the Ampère Laboratory. He started to work with SuperGrid Institute in a part-time commitment in 2014. He joined the department dedicated to power electronics and converters in Supergrid Institute at full time in 2019 as a research team leader for HVDC applications. He is now the advanced research manager of SuperGrid Institute. 
 
Dr. Ning Yang received his B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Dalian Jiaotong University, China, in 2018, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Liverpool, U.K., in 2023. In 2023, he served as a Research Fellow at the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research & Education, University of Birmingham. He is currently a Research Associate with the Power Electronics, Drives & Energy Conversion Group at the University of Strathclyde. 
 
Chavdar Ivanov is the Managing Director of gridDigIt. He is supporting TenneT TSO GmbH on various topics. He has M.Sc and PhD degrees in power system engineering. Chavdar has more than 20 years of experience in activities of transmission system operators mainly in the areas of power system analysis, power system modelling, data/model management and R&D. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of Power System Dynamics Performance Committee. He is actively contributing in IEC committees on data exchange and wind modelling related standards. His main field of interest is related to power system modelling, stability studies and data exchanges. 
 
Georgii Tishenin received his electrical engineering diploma from Ural Federal University, Russia in 2014 and M.Sc. degree from RWTH Aachen University, Germany in 2020. From 2014 until 2015 he worked as a relay protection design engineer at UralProjectEngineering, Russia. From 2019 until 2023 Georgii worked as a software developer for relay protection testing solutions at OMICRON electronics, Austria. In 2023 Mr. Tishenin joined RWTH Aachen, Germany, where he works as a research assistant and pursues a PhD.