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Real-time Cosimulations for Hydropower Research and
Development
Power and Energy DepartmentIdaho National Laboratory
Manish Mohanpurkar, Ph.D.Yusheng Luo, Ph.D.
Rob Hovsapian, Ph.D.
Introduction• Hydropower is the largest producer of renewable energy in the U.S.
with over 60% penetration• Multiple configurations exist for hydropower generation:
– Conventional hydro - fixed speed– Advanced hydro - adjustable speed
• Conventional hydropower is based on synchronous generators operating at fixed speed
– Participate in primary energy market• Advanced hydro is typically based on induction machines with speed
control through power electronics– Additional potential to participate in the ancillary service markets
• Challenges – lack of framework to determine and compensate for stability due to rotating inertia and participation in wider avenues
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Percentage of hydro power generation to the total electricity generation for leading hydro producers of the world
Electricity generation by hydro and renewable energy sources in the U.S. (Y-axis: electricity generated in million MWh)
Motivation - I• Rapid increase in non-deterministic and variable generation resources
at transmission and distribution network– Results in reduced inertia in grids
• Hydropower is versatile, emission free, and deterministic source of energy
• Till recent years was utilized as load following and peaking units• Pumped Storage Hydro (PSH) is the only proven grid level storage
technique that is economically feasible• Advances in power electronics allow the adjustable speed operation • Ideal storage characteristics of PSH and AS-PSH
– Quick response (~15 MW/s)– Large capacity (several 100 MWs)– No emissions during operation– Transmission infrastructure available for interconnections
Motivation - II• Developing physics based vendor neutral, dynamic models capable of
capturing events at a sub-second level for hydro systems• Mechanical and hydro systems have response times ranging from few
seconds to few minutes– A typical ramping rate of an advanced hydropower plant is 5 to 15
MW/seconds– Change of state of gate from sensing to controls to execution is few
minutes• Electrical system dynamic events and faults occur in sub-second to a
few seconds– A typical 1L-G fault exists for a few cycles and protection systems
are activated• Technical Gap: A multi domain, true co-simulation environment with
models to analyze and provide a stability quantification framework
Objectives of AS-PSH modeling
• Creating physics based, vendor neutral model that can provide a dynamic and transient response in real time
• Capability of simulating several different modes of operation of AS-PSH with reasonable practicality
• Capability to co-simulate the hydro-dynamics with other domains i.e., electrical, mechanical, and thermal as needed
• Demonstrate participation in both real time energy and ancillary service market
• Capability of providing an environment for Controller-Hardware-In-the-Loop (CHIL), Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL), and Power-Hardware-In-the-Loop (PHIL) to serve as a verification and validation platform
• Similarity in control architecture of a Type-3 wind turbines
Pumped Storage Hydropower (PSH) Transient Simulation Modeling
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• Develop transient EMT models in small time steps (5 - 50 s) to better understand the dynamic interactions between electromagnetics and hydrodynamics
• Study the hydrodynamic behaviors such as water hammering and flywheel effects due to sudden load and fault conditions
• Conduct System level testing and analysis on the Real Time Digital Simulator
• Provide a greater understanding of variable renewable interactions and the value of energy storage
Co-simulation of the electromagnetic & hydrodynamic transients
Adjustable Speed Pumped Storage Hydro• Two primary subsystems within a typical AS-PSH
– Hydraulic subsystem– Electric subsystem
• Several modes of operation– normal generation, normal pumping, idle, down fringe generation,
up fringe generation, down fringe generation, etc.
Physics Based Modeling• Models developed capable of capturing sub-cycle events in both
domains• Coupled partial differential equations used for the development of
models• Basic water flow dynamics and solution by ‘Integral Transform’:
– H(x,t) is pressure head, U(x,t) is the fluid velocity, a is the pressure wavevelocity, g is gravitational acceleration, D is internal diameter of the pipe,and f is a friction factor
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Unit Step Load Change• Large step load is simulated along with the controller signal and output
Real Time AS-PSH model• Physics based model of the AS-PSH hydro circuit, power electronic
converter, converter controls, and a test power system• Multiple test scenarios in real time are simulated
– Balanced faults– Unbalanced faults– Unit step load changes
Real-time Co-simulation of Hydro and Electrical Events• Response of the AS-PSH to electrical faults
Unbalanced fault: 1 Line to ground fault Balanced fault: 3 Line to ground fault
Motivation - III• Large hydropower plants may not be possible due to numerous
constraints such as regulatory, environmental, and limited resources• Immense potential of small sized (< 100 MW) Run-Of-the-River (ROR)
hydropower plants is identified – 65,500 MW untapped hydro-resources in the U.S.
• Innovation – Emulate the response of a large hydropower plant by coordinating a group of smaller ROR plants
• ROR hydropower plant operation is typically determined by irrigation schedules and hence ‘non-dispatchable’
• Constant speed operation is the most suited mode for such applications
• Communications and controls in industry accepted and vendor neutral approach adopted to demonstrate effectiveness
Proposed Solution• A cohesive operation of multiple ROR hydropower plants and an
optimal Energy Storage System (ESS)• ESS comprises of supercapacitors, flywheels, and batteries• ESS is capable of short to long term support based on ROR power
output and response requests• Coordination and controls between the components is based on
‘Siemens Smart Energy Box (SEB)’• SEB is an open platform developed by Siemens and is readily available • ROR does not have the inherent storage flexibility therefore it can only
participate in the primary energy market• ROR plus ESS coordinated operation via SEB will be connected to test
and actual power systems to register response to dynamic conditions
ROR Hydropower plus ESS Operation
Market description
Proposed Primary Secondary Tertiary
Reserve type Power electronically interfaced
Spinning Spinning Non-spinning
Timescale of response
Smaller (µs – ms)
Medium(ms – s)
Longer (s – minutes)
Longer (minutes –hours)
Timescale of discharge
µs – minutes several minutes 30 minutes – 2 hours
several hours
Application Transient stability, power quality corrections
Operating reserve for regulation, fault recovery, power quality
Operating reserve for slow dynamics, voltage support, contingency
Load leveling, energy arbitrage, firming, contingency
Example technologies
Supercapacitors, flywheels
Synchronous generators, batteries
Synchronous generators, batteries
Pumped hydro, gas turbines
Front End Controller Development• Develop physics based ESS models and vendor neutral topologies in
real time environment• Develop Front-End-Controller (FEC) to receive grid management
signals and respond as needed • FECs will be developed for each ESS component
• Verification and validation via Controller-Hardware-In-the-Loop (CHIL) of FEC in real time environment
• Assess the economic and financial value streams of ROR HPPs• HIL testing based on RTDS links between INL and NREL with the
controllable grid interface • Dynamic grid and market conditions to be simulated
• RTDS link between the two labs is an outcome of an existing LDRD effort at INL
• Control Architecture for integrating ROR HPP with ESS and power grid
Accomplishments and Progress
Real Time Environment
Storage Devices
INL
Super capacitor
Hardware in the Loop Devices
I/O
ROR models developed collaboratively
Battery (80kW)
Flywheel model
Simulated Devices
Battery modelHydro model
Electric Grid model
Inverter controller
Siemens Smart Energy
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Power electronics interface
I/O
Permanent Magnet based Hydro Power Plant
Induction Machine based Hydro Power Plant
Induction Machine based Hydro Power Plant
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Power Market Interface
Primary Energy Market
Spot Market
Ancillary Service Market
Data for economic analysis generated
to be used with PLEXOS and
FESTIV type tools
Front End Controller Interface
ANL
Proposed Framework
HIL based testing with NREL• A controllable grid interface at NREL will be used remotely via RTDS
links to perform hardware performance validation of the developed framework
• Data generated from dynamic grid and market conditions will be analyzed by Argonne National Laboratory and Energy Exemplar
• Economic feasibility and revenue data will be generated for business case
Concluding Remarks• Real Time Power and Energy Group, INL is actively involved in multiple
hydropower related projects • Brief review of two current projects at INL by Wind and Water Program
Technologies Office is discussed– Dynamic modeling of Adjustable-Speed Pumped Storage Hydropower
Plant• Co-simulation of hydro and electrical events in real time at sub-second regime
– Integrated Hydropower and Storage Systems Operation for Enhanced Grid Services
• Cohesive response of multiple ROR hydropower plants and storage to provide ancillary services
• A physics based, vendor neutral modeling approach is adopted in real time environment with sub-second resolution
• True real time co-simulations performed to analyze systems• Multiple DOE labs, industry, and utilities with complimentary skills to
form teams
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