Pseudo real-time simulation of DC grids
This example is extracted from a work realized by Maxime Félix for his bachelor degree at HEIG-VD supervised by Mauro Carpita and Daniel Siemaszko.
It proposes a graphical interface (as shown in the screenshot below) for a pseudo real-time simulation of a DC grid composed of:
- a solar panel,
- a load consumption (which can represent a typical house consumption),
- a battery,
- a connection to the AC grid.
Pseudo real time simulation is performed with successive simulations whose results are added one after the other. Each simulation is fast enough to offer pseudo-real-time rendering.
The graphical user interface has been realised with the tkinter python package. It allows to user to:
- change the solar panel insolation,
- change the level of load consumption (by adding or removing different loads),
- get an estimation of the battery state of charge,
- get the currents and voltages of the total load(I_LOAD), the solar panel (I_PV), the battery (I_BATT) and of the grid trhorugh the active front end converter (I_AFE), as shown in the figure below.
