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Competitive advantage
- Novel energy storage technologies that can be customised based on industry/customer specifications, allowing rapid introduction into the market
- Ability to conduct rapid prototyping and real-time verification of advanced power electronic concepts using Opal RT/RTDS, provide fast verification and quick adoption by industry for mass production
- World-class power hardware-in-the-loop capabilities to enable testing at full power
Impact
- From small-scale to large-scale, power electronics is the enabling technology for integration of energy storage systems (ESS) to the grid.
Successful applications
- A cascaded boost inverter-based battery ESS with several advantages over a cascaded H-bridge ESS:
- Lower number of series connected modules
- Ability to reduce the second-order harmonic ripple component in the battery current without additional hardware components
- No input voltage balancing is required
- Generates a sinusoidal output voltage
Capabilities and facilities
- Hardware-in-the-loop simulation for rapid assessment of control techniques
- Hardware testing capability up to 50kVA, 1kV, 400A
- Arbin battery and supercapacitor tester with environmental chamber