Table 7 Purposes of SIL in energy- and electricity systems
From: A scoping review of In-the-loop paradigms in the energy sector focusing on software-in-the-loop
Category | Purpose | References |
|---|---|---|
Control strategy testing/evaluation | Testing a Coordinated Volt/VAR Control strategy | |
Evaluation of solar cooling control strategies | Huber et al. (2014) | |
Test and verification of control logic and its reliability governing a power plant | Rossi et al. (2019) | |
Evaluation of a POD controller of a synchronous condenser | Nguyen et al. (2019a) | |
Evaluation of the functionality of a novel decentralized distribution automation architecture | Tuominen et al. (2017) | |
Evaluation of a power control algorithm | Tuominen et al. (2017) | |
Testing of MPPT control for photovoltaics | Singh and Shubhanga (2017) | |
Optimization | Parameter optimization to deal with oscillatory stability issues | Nguyen et al. (2019b) |
Parameterization of an IEEE standard automatic voltage regulator (AVR)/excitation system | Nguyen et al. (2019a) | |
State estimation to minimize network losses, curtailed production of distributed generation units, minimize the number of On-Load Tap-Changers (OLTC) actions, and maintain as flat a voltage profile as possible | Tuominen et al. (2017) | |
To optimize the operation of renewable energies—district heating, combined heat and power, solar collectors, and thermal energy storage | Frotscher et al. (2019) | |
Dispatching/scheduling | Evaluation of advanced resource dispatch strategies for autonomous hybrid power systems including renewable energy sources | Osadcuks and Galins (2012) |
Test of a distributed day-ahead scheduling algorithm | Bonassi (2020) | |
Experimentation | Experimentation with distributed control structures | Kwon and Choi (1999) |