Typhoon HIL Blog

Blog highlights

• Application | Modular Scalable ESS.
• Challenge | Set up a strong controller design for 15 PEBBs, with verification for parallel operations and communication performance.
• Solution | Control development and validation using Typhoon HIL solution.
• Result | Shorter development time and strong performance verification achieved thanks to the flexible development and testing environment.

Blog Highlights

• Having the same HIL system as a tool streamlines cross-team coordination and speeds up customer response time.
• With Typhoon HIL, Danfoss' customer response time went from one or two weeks down to a few hours.
• For Danfoss customers, HIL Tested means fast customer response times.

Blog Highlights

• Hitachi Energy’s installations across the world reduce the likelihood of mistakes with system configuration, deployment, and operation, and allow them to juggle competing requirements.
• Hitachi Energy pairs these capabilities with HIL modeling and testing to ensure microgrids are the right fit for the market.
• Hitachi Energy applies HIL testing to comply with certification and standards, such as grid codes, prior to deployment.

Blog Highlights

• Rolls Royce Power Systems takes off-the-shelf items of equipment and brings them together to make an AC coupled battery storage system.
• Rolls Royce integrates with the whole microgrid with centralized control, ensuring all the different parts work together.
• Using HIL testing allows Rolls Royce to reduce surprises in the field, making commissioning easier and faster.

Blog Highlights

• Testing in a simulated environment reduces the potential risk of damaging customer equipment.
• Closed-loop systems like HIL enable fine-tuning HIL models.
• HIL digital twins enable a testing ground for plug-and-play microgrids.
• With HIL, site testing and debugging of software can be completed ahead of deployment.

Blog Highlights

• After adopting the Scrum and Agile development methodologies, Danfoss Drives started developing in smaller sprints using HIL.
• With Typhoon HIL, Danfoss Drives got a HIL infrastructure that works out of the box.
• Since adopting HIL testing, less time is needed for validation tests of software controls than before.

Blog Highlights

• Challenge | Addressing the Challenges of Microgrid Systems Integration.
• Design | Pros and Cons of Testing Methods to Validate Microgrid Designs.
• Development | Streamlining Microgrid Development with Model-Based Engineering.
• Testing | How HIL Tests the Functionality of Microgrid Controllers.
• Validation | How to Validate a Microgrid Project.
• Case Studies | How Does HIL Work in the Real World,
  learn from Case Studies with Duke Energy, Rolls Royce, and Hitachi Energy.

Blog Highlights

• Danfoss Drives gained speed, saved money, and could achieve the desired quality for the customer with just software adjustments thanks to HIL testing.
• When using HIL simulation, what would typically take weeks to get done in the lab could be done within a couple of days instead.
• Using HIL simulation, Danfoss provided a better customer experience.

Michele Fusero is an R&D engineer and control specialist for the e-mesh PowerStore Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) at the Grid Edge Solutions Product Group at Hitachi Energy. He delivered a talk at the virtual PEDG2021 conference on how HIL became the pillar of the e-mesh solution product development. Watch the video above or read the full blog article to learn more.

Blog Highlights

• The main challenges of inverter control design, development, testing, and certification.
• How does a C-HIL setup look like for hybrid inverter control testing.
• How can test automation speed up inverter software update verification.
• How can HIL speed up product development while improving product robustness and quality.