Usage Overview, and Latest Developments

Opal-RT Simulators in ABB MV Drives

Mathieu Giroux, Team Leader Software R&D, ABB Switzerland – Medium Voltage Drives

ABB MV Drives

HVAC

Marine

WaterFood industry Beverage industry

Pulp & Paper

Metals industryMining and minerals Power generation

Cement

Chemicals Oil upstream Railway Textile

Wind

We serve all industries, all applications

Medium Voltage Drives

– General purpose drives250 kW – 7 MV

– Special purpose drives2 – 100 MW

– Utility scale wind converters

2 - 12 MW

HiL Simulator Usage Opal-RT simulators present in 3 R&D locations:

India, Poland, and Switzerland

Nine (9) OP5600 simulators in operation, two (2) commissioned in 2017

Usage: R&D, Release Testing, Field Support

The drive software controls The drive control software consists of much more than a

torque controller and a modulator.

Drive control software counts hundreds of functionalities:• Breaker & switch control, charging

• Cooling

• Redundancy

• Multi-drive functionalities

• Protections and monitoring

• etc. …

How to make certain our software product meets these customer requirements…

… these customer requirements …

… and these customer requirements?

Automated system level testingOpal-RT HiL

MV Drive Control HardwareTest PCC# Scripts

Real-time I/O interface

Non-real-timeOpal-RT API

Non-real-timeDrive API

Test report

Drive main controller

Automation I/Os

Converter FPGA

Opal-RT HiL

ACS6080 Project - 2017

PLANT ENVIRONMENT

OP5600 – ABB I/Os via MODBUS

MODBUS TCP

ABB DRIVE CONTROL HARDWARE

Slower time-level automation signals, e.g. "Drive cooling system water temperature"

Projects 2018 FPGA simulation

Opal-RT simulator with automated build server

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