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Power Electronics Solutions

Power Electronics Solutions

AIT Smart Grid Converter

Industry's first four phase four wire converter

AIT Smart Grid Converter is designed for today‘s Smart Grid and emerging Low Inertia Micro Grid applications. With seamless transition between Grid Forming, Off-Grid and Grid Supporting modes, its highly reliable cooling concept designed to ensure long life time, broad range of connectivity options: IEC61850, ModBus TCP, SunSpec, and modular and stackable concept of increased power handling capability, the AIT Smart Grid Converter presents a perfect Smart Grid fit.

Features and Capabilities

  • Superb handling of arbitrarily unbalanced  grid current, voltage and load conditions​
  • Grid forming modes: Droop, Virtual Synchronous Machine with Virtual Inertia​
  • Grid Support modes: PV, BESS, Battery simulator, Grid Currents balancer, Active Front End, Back-2-Back​
  • Off-grid​
  • Full four quadrant  operation​
  • Active/Reactive power: full circular capability​
  • Immediate control: P, Q, PF​
  • Grid functions: Frequency-Watt/P(f), Volt-Var/Q(U), Volt-Watt/P(U)​
  • Anti-islanding​
  • Low/High Voltage ride through with Fast Reactive Current Response​
  • Grid code and safety standards compliance​

AIT HIL Controller

Power Conversion Applications

  • Build a real-time digital replica of the preferred grid-code compliant power converter ​
  • Set the nominal power rating & grid settings​
  • Select the grid support function or grid forming modes​
  • Model your power conversion application: power system feeder, micro-grid, off-grid system​
  • Research of the modeled power conversion application: execute test cases within Typhoon HIL control center or with the open source test platforms​
  • Validate your power system control and operation strategies​
  • Conduct grid integration and interoperability studies

Available Reference Power Converter Applications

  • 3-phase Solar inverter​
  • 3-phase BESS converter​
  • 3-phase Active Front End / Back-to-Back converter​
  • EV Charging Station  and Battery emulator

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