Energy Centre;Global Real Time Simulation Laboratory (G-RTSLab@PoliTO)
Cinergia - BC2-15 – Storage and PV emulator
- DC Power (rated): 15 kW
- DC Voltage (range): 10-750/800 V
- DC Current (channel Unipolar Mode): +/- 20 A
- DC Current (global Parallel Unipolar Mode): +/- 75 A
- DC Current (global Bipolar 4Q Mode): +/- 25 A
- Dimensions (DxWxH) - weight: 770x450x1100 mm - 150 kg
Spherea - PCU 3X7000 AC/DC – Linear power amplifier
- Number of phases: 3 phases + earth without neutral
- Frequency: 47-63 Hz
- Index of Protection: IP20
- Operating Temperature: + 0 °C to +50 °C
- Storage Temperature: - 10 °C to +85 °C
- Insulation: > 10 MΩ;
- Dimensions (D x W x H) - weight: 800 x 800 x 2300 mm – 715 kg
- Max Current per phase: 45 Arms
- Protection: Magneto thermal breaker
Cinergia GE+20 – Switching power amplifier-Grid emulator
- Version: vAC
- AC Power (rated): 20 kW
- DC Power (rated): -
- AC Current (rated RMS per phase/Global): 29A / 87A
- DC Current (rated DC Per phase/Global): -
- Dimensions (D x W x H) - weight: 770 x 450 x 1100 mm – 150 kg
Cinergia GE+60 HIL + HV+IT – Switching power amplifier
- Rated Power: 60 kVA; AC: 54 kW; DC: 27 kW
- Rated Current (phase): AC: 80 Arms; DC: 28.5 A
- Rated Current: AC: 240 Arms; DC: 85.5 A
- Voltage range: AC: +/- 420Vpeak ph-N; DC: 0-800 V
- Weight: 190 kg
- Dimensions (D x W x H): 770 x 450 x 1100 mm
OP5707 – RCP/HIL FPGA-based RT simulator
- CPU Intel 64 bit with 1 core of 16 activated; FPGA Xilinx Virtex-7
- Communication with the PC via Gigabit Ethernet
- Digital Output board: 32 channels galvanically insulated (16 statics and 16 PWM)
- Digital Input board: 2 channels optically insulated (16 statics and 16 PWM)
- Analogic Input board: 32 channels; 16-bit 400 kS/s
- Analogic Output board: 32 channels; 1MS/s max 15 mA
OP5600 – Real-time digital simulator
- CPU Intel 64 bit; 1 core on 8 activated; FPGA Xilinx Spartan-3
- Communication with the PC via Gigabit Ethernet
- Digital Output board: 32 channels galvanically insulated
- Digital Input board 32 channels optically insulated
- Analogic Input board: 16 channels, 16-bit 400 kS/s
- Analogic Output board: 16 channels, 1MS/s max 15 mA
RTDS Simulator – Real-time simulator
- IBM POWER8 RISC processor; 4 cores on 10 activated;3.5 GHz
- Modelling capacity up to 600 single-phase nodes
- Input: 12 isolated, 12-bit DAC; +/- 10 Vpeak
- 24 optical fibre ports per I/O cards
- Power input: 100-120/220-240 V; 50/60 Hz; 14.5-12.0/6.6-6.1 A
DELL EMC POWEREDGE T640 Base – PC Server
- Dimensions (W x H x D): 217 x 443 x 693 mm
- Installed CPUs: x Intel® Xeon® Silver 4114 2.2G, 10C/20T, 9.6GT/s 2UPI, 14M
- Cache, Turbo, HT (85W) DDR4-2400 (expandable up to 2)
- RAM Memory: 48GB (3x16 GB)
- RAM Expandability: max 768 GB RAM on a total of 24 total slots
Cinergia EL+15 vACDC – Regenerative AC/DC electronic load
- Version: vACDC
- AC Power (rated) - DC Power (rated): 15 kW - 15 kW
- Dimensions (D x W x H) - Weight: 770 x 450 x 1100 mm - 155 kg
- AC Current (rated RMS per phase / Parallel): 22A / 66A
- DC Current (rated DC Per phase / Global): +/- 20 A | +/- 60 A
GEN series - GEN7tA – Data acquisition system
- Inputs: 32 event channels
- Outputs: 4 digital isolated channels
- Seven slots for any mix of acquisition cards
- 10 Gbit optical or electrical Ethernet with 400 MB/s
- Removable SSD with 350 MB/s continuous streaming
- 100 mB/s continuous streaming using 1 Gbit Ethernet to PC Wake on LAN
- Operational Temp. Range: 0° C to +40° C
- Power Inlet: 46-63 Hz, 100-240 V AC
- Dimensions (D x W x H) - Weight: 293 x 448 x 343 mm - 10.9 kg
G-RTS Lab, at Politecnico di Torino, is an internationally interconnected lab for Real-Time simulation (RTS). It is active in studying the role of electricity in energy transition, with a focus on emerging smart grids (distribution) and super grids (transmission) aiming to provide secure and affordable electricity to everyone.
The laboratory has been designed to implement all the possible configurations of RTS: Pure Real-Time simulation; Software-in-the-Loop simulation (SIL); Hardware- in-the-Loop (HIL); Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL).
Multi-site Real-Time co-simulation arises from the idea of being able to interconnect geographically distributed Real-Time laboratories. In this way, not only Real-Time simulators but also SIL, HIL, PHIL configurations hosted in the various laboratories can be shared among the labs. The laboratory participated since 2015 at several multi-site co-simulations together with JRC of the European Commission (Ispra and Petten sites), Aachen RWTH University, Sandia National Laboratory, NREL, INL, Colorado State University, University of South Carolina, Washington State University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
In the last year, the laboratory has been involved in the ENET-RT Lab initiative, aiming to create a co-simulation laboratory among universities and research centres on the Italian territory involving Politecnico di Torino, JRC site in Ispra, Politecnico di Bari, Università degli Studi di Genova and Università degli Studi “Federico II” di Napoli.
The activities of the G-RTS Lab are integrated into the Energy Centre Lab (EC-Lab), where interdisciplinary studies related to different energy sectors (e.g., electricity, gas and heat) can be studied entirely. The RTS provides a real-like virtual electricity infrastructure in which new strategies, control and operative systems and technologies can be tested ex-ante, i.e., before the actual implementation in the real world, providing reliable and realistic information on impacts and benefits.