Next generation electromagnetic transient simulation tool for large-scale power systems with detailed equipment models

用于大型电力系统的下一代电磁暂态仿真工具，具有详细的设备模型

• 批准号: 515592-2017
• 负责人: Dinavahi, Venkata
• 金额: $ 6.67万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=618642
• 关键词: Next; generation; electromagnetic; transient; simulation

Electrical power systems are the largest man-made geographically distributed nonlinear structures that arecomposed of a variety of equipment such as generators, transformers, transmission lines, customer loads,spanning thousands of kilometers. Electromagnetic transient simulation (EMT) tools are used analyze andsolve major operational and control problems in power systems. EMT simulation of large-scale power systemsconsumes so much computational power that parallel programming techniques are urgently needed in this area.Currently available EMT simulation tools were designed to run on single-core CPUs, and therefore, cannottake advantage of the multi-core CPUs and many-core graphics processors (GPUs) to manage computationalload. Massive-thread computing is one of the key developments that can increase the EMT computationalcapabilities substantially when the processing unit has enough hardware cores. The aim of this project is todevelop a host of innovations towards implementing a parallel massive-thread EMT simulator for large-scalepower systems on the GPU and multi-core CPU hardware architectures. The main features of this work is todesign and build massive-thread models for various power system and power electronic components, finiteelement and finite difference time domain models, efficient numerical algorithms, advanced data analysis andvisualization, and validation of the simulator.The project results are expected to prove the feasibility of a functional parallel massive-thread EMT simulatorthat can achieve computational speed-up in large-scale system simulation while using very detailed systemcomponent models. The main beneficiary of this project will be Manitoba HVDC Research Centre (MHRC)which can integrate the developed innovations into their flagship EMT simulation tool PSCAD/EMTDC. Theexperienced team of highly qualified engineers trained in this project will contribute to the ongoingadvancement of the EMT simulation technology and may prove to be valuable future employees for MHRC.

电力系统是最大的人造地理分布的非线性结构，该结构由多种设备（例如发电机，变压器，传输线，客户负载）组成，涵盖了数千公里。电磁瞬态仿真（EMT）工具用于分析并解决功率系统中的主要操作和控制问题。大规模电源系统的EMT模拟如此之多的计算能力，以至于在该区域中迫切需要并行编程技术。目前可用的EMT模拟工具旨在在单核CPU上运行，因此，多核CPU和多核CPU和CPUS的优势多核图形处理器（GPU）来管理计算方法。大型线程计算是当处理单元具有足够的硬件核心时，可以大大增加EMT计算能力的关键发展之一。该项目的目的是进行大量创新，以在GPU和多核CPU硬件体系结构上实现平行的大型线程EMT模拟器。这项工作的主要特征是针对各种电力系统和电力电子组件，有限元和有限差的时间域模型，有效的数值算法，高级数据分析和visalization以及模拟器的验证。项目结果是，项目结果是有望证明功能平行的大型线程EMT SimulatorThat的可行性可以在大规模系统模拟中实现计算加速，同时使用非常详细的SystemComponent模型。该项目的主要受益人将是曼尼托巴HVDC研究中心（MHRC），该研究中心可以将开发的创新集成到其旗舰EMT仿真工具PSCAD/EMTDC中。经验丰富的高素质工程师在该项目中培训的团队将有助于EMT模拟技术的持续投资，并可能被证明是MHRC的宝贵未来员工。