By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net
Bhopal: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, (BHEL), Bhopal unit has developed Real Time Digital Power Electronic Simulator, (RTDPES), in association with M/S Opal-RT Technologies Inc., Montreal, Canada which is used world wide for system design & engineering and overall system simulation studies of 3-phase traction drives.
The application software of 3-phase traction systems was developed in association with Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT), Madras and Indian Institute of Science, (IISc), Bangalore. The application software was integrated with real time software to form complete simulator.
A five-day training on RTDPES simulator concluded the other day. Expert engineers from M/S Opal-RT Montreal, Canada were also invited in the training program. The training program was conducted and coordinated by Dr. A. Sivalingam, DGM (Transportation Systems Group). Engineers from different departments of Bhopal and other units participated in the training program.
With this state-of-art RTDPES simulator, BHEL can do system design and engineering, modeling & off-line simulation for train performance evaluation and for real time simulation and testing of power electronics & controls of 3-phase IGBT based traction drive systems which is going to be the future of all traction rail applications.
It may be mentioned here that Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), one of the leading organizations in transportation is engaged in system design, equipment design, manufacture, supply, erection & commissioning of variety of traction equipment for electric & diesel electric traction and AC-DC main line locomotives since 1962. Over 70% of the rolling stock fleet of Indian Railways is equipped with BHEL manufactured traction equipment. With expertise and modern facilities, BHEL has entered the field of 3-phase state-of-art technology for 3-phase drive traction applications. It has undertaken development of state-of-art IGBT based 3-phase drive technology for 3-phase Electric and Diesel Multiple Unit (EMU & DEMU). ([email protected])