High-Speed Modeling Architecture for Fast EMT Simulation of Power Electronic Transformers

Abstract

This paper proposes a high-speed modeling architecture for fast electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation of PETs. Unlike the existing modeling methods, the proposed technique recursively decreases the dimension order of the admittance matrix to obtain the generalized Norton equivalent of each phase leg. The final admittance matrix overlaid onto the external system admittance matrix has a dimension orders of magnitude remarkably smaller than that of the unreduced structure. By comparison with a detailed EMT model of a medium-voltage dc (MVDC) grid, the performance of the proposed scheme has been assessed in PSCAD/EMTDC under various working conditions. With negligible loss of accuracy, approximately one to two orders of magnitude speedup over a straightforward EMT program is achieved.