Electric Ship Research and

Development ConsortiumChris S. Edrington, PhD, PE

Associate Professor of Electrical EngineeringFlorida State University

April 9th - 10th, 2014

ESRDC Mission Statement:The Electric Ship Research and Development Consortium brings together in a single entity the combined

programs and resources of leading electric power research institutions to advance near- to mid-term

electric ship concepts

Overview

Competency Areas

Capabilities

Collaboration

Facilities

Achievements and Impact

ESRDC Website

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ESRDC Competency Areas

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ESRDC

MW Testing Capability

Electric Power and Energy

Management

Protection and Fault

Management

Thermal Management

Ship Architecture

Control Systems

System Tools Development

Super-

conducting

Systems

ESRDC Developed

Capabilities

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Design

• S3D development

• DC fault management

• Superconducting cable

• Advanced machine design

• Advanced control system design

• Thermal system design

• Hull design

• Power system architecture

ESRDC Developed

Capabilities

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Testing

• HIL dynamic testing

• CHIL (controller hardware in the loop)

• PHIL (power hardware in the loop)

• Superconducting cables

ESRDC Developed

Capabilities

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Software and Toolboxes

• Toolbox Features

• Fully Documented w/ Manuals, Open Source, No-Cost

• Distributed on Purdue, ESRDC, Wiley websites

• DC Stability Toolbox 3.0 (>250 downloads from Purdue)

• Genetic Optimization System Engineering Toolbox 2.6(>410 downloads)

• Magnetic Equivalent Circuit Toolbox 3.2 (>350 downloads)

• Power Magnetic Material Toolbox 1.0 (>230 downloads)

• Thermal Equivalent Circuit Toolbox 2.0 (>240 downloads)

• Electric Machinery Design Toolboxes (mostly private)

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Software and Toolboxes

• S3D ship system design

• VTB virtual test bed

• CEM Solver

• visESRDC (ship load simulation tool)

• vemESRDC (ship thermal management early stage design tool)

ESRDC Developed

Capabilities

ESRDC Capabilities

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Software/Simulation Tools

• Matlab/Simulink

• PLECS (power electronics circuit simulation)

• ACSL

• PSCAD

• COMSOL Multiphysics FEA

• Maxwell 2D/3D FEA

• Magnet 2D/3D FEA

• Elecnet 2D/3D FEA

• Altium (PCB board layout tools)

• PSIM (power electronics circuit simulation)

• Simscape (Matlab multiphysics tool)

• RSCAD/RTDS (real-time digital simulation)

• dSPACE (Matlab-based rapid control prototyping tool)

• Opal-RT (Matlab-based real-time digital simulation platform)

ESRDC Collaborative

Activities

Collaborations

• T-CRAFT

• Advanced Electrical Machine Testing

• Hybrid Electric Drive

• Swampworks

• High Speed Generator

• SSPS Testing

• IMU (Impedance Measurement Unit) Testing

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ESRDC Facilities

• Florida State University

• University of Texas at Austin

• Purdue University

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• University of South Carolina

• Mississippi State University

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Florida State University

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Simulation

Real-Time Simulation

Environment

Optical fiber to

remote I/O cards in

each lab

Simulator Lab

MVDC Bldg. High Bay

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Labs

Florida State University

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5 MVA/4160 V AC

4-Quadrant Amplifier(2) 2.5 MW/450 RPM

Dynomometers,

3600 RPM/24,000 RPM

gearbox

(4) 1.5 MW/6 kV DC Modular

Multilevel Converters,

Series up to 5MW/24 kV DC

30 Meter Superconducting Cable up to 5 kA

with Gaseous Helium CryogenicsHigh Voltage Dielectrics

Testing

Active Front EndNPC (MVDC System Interface)

Inverter

Energy

Storage DCN

Adjacent

Rack…

NPC Controller

AC Load

DCN

NHR 4600 AC

Load

/w InverterNHR 9200 DC

source-load

Rack #1 GenSet

Distributed Control Node

(DCN)

DC Load

DCN

BK Precision

8522 DC Load

Rack #2 B2B

Controller

Rack #2 NPC

Controller

Rack #2 GenSet DCN

Human Interface/Data

Acquisition

Sensors

IGBT Pulses

CAN Bus

Ethernet

Other Comm.

Power Flow

Back to back (B2B) Controller

Power

Transf

ormer

Activ

e

Recti

fier

(AFE

)

Invert

er

(INV)

Activ

e

Rectif

ier

(NPC

)

Contr

ols

Contr

ols

Rack #1 Rack #2

Test Bed Hardware

Real-time

Simulation of

Physical

System

Real-time Simulation of

Communications

Distributed Control

Computing Layer

Network

Switch

Interface

FPGA200.7

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RTDS

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MAMBA #1

200.1

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MAMBA #4

200.1

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140.1

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MAMBA #3

200.1

3

130.1

1

MAMBA #5

200.1

5

150.1

1

MAMBA #6

200.1

6

160.1

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MAMBA #2

200.1

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120.1

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OPNET

13Distributed Control and Communications Test Bed

Florida State University

University of Texas at Austin

• MW-level Microgrid– AC and DC systems, motors, generators

• Storage– Capacitors and inductors

– Ultracaps and Batteries

– Rotating storage

• Superconductivity– Machines and bearings

– Electrical and thermal design

– Component and system testing

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Purdue

750 VDC/70 kW Test bed

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• Fault recovery

• Load switching

Purdue

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Magnetics Facilities New Facilities !

Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

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Design of a Free-running, 1/30th Froude Scaled Model Destroyer for In-situ Hydrodynamic Flow Visualization

3D Heat Flow and Heat

Transfer Simulator

Pulse-

Power

Radar

Energy

Storage

System

“An End-to-End Simulator” of MVDC IPS

University of South Carolina

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Liquid loop I for convective

single and two-phase transport

Liquid loop II for convective

single and two-phase transport Thermal Conductivity

Measurement Test Rigs

Evaporation/condensation test rigs

Heat Pipe Charge System

Thermal Systems

University of South Carolina

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Universal Controller Platform

Hardware Manager Converter System Control

Modular Multilevel Converter

Energy Routing

University of South Carolina

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Modular IGBT

converter platforms

and control test beds

Interconnected power

converter setup for

system studies

Environmental

test chamber

High power

curve tracer, C-V

measurement

Power Semiconductor

Device Characterization

Power Electronics

Mississippi State University

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Behavioral modeling of complex

hull/bulkhead/cable grounding systems

High-Voltage Laboratory• Fundamental knowledge in power

interconnection aging/performance

• Full-scale circuit protection testing

Distributed performance and fault management

framework for naval shipboard power systems

Silicon-Carbide high-voltage module design for

stability and performance

Achievements and Impacts

• ESRDC has produced numerous PhD and MS

graduates that have gone on to work in the naval

community

– Approximately 380 MS and PhD’s produced since the

inception of ESRDC

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Achievements and Impacts

• Electric machine and drive design

• Magnetic component design

• Magnetic material characterization

• ODE/PDE based time domain modeling

• FEA and method-of-moments

field computations

• System stability, controls, fault protection

• Power electronic components and systems

• Numerous technical reports, conference and

journal articles, books, theses and dissertations

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Questions/Discussion

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