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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Net
wo
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MAMBA #1
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MAMBA #4
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MAMBA #3
200.1
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MAMBA #5
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MAMBA #6
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OPNET
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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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