IREC – Energy Smart Lab
TA42 – IREC-Energy SmartLab
Location
Jardins De Les Dones De Negre 1
08930 Sant Adria De Besos, Spain
Description
The Energy Smart Lab service is managed in the area of Energy Efficiency Systems Buildings and Communities (ECOS) and receives the support of the different research groups of the area. This service offers an experimental and testing platform for technology development and testing in a flexible environment. It can develop and test prototypes in the fields of smart grids and micro-grids, renewable energy sources and electric mobility integration and control, energy storage applications and energy management conceived.
Testing Capabilities
The Energy Smart Lab offers the following services:
- Grid code validation
- Pre-certification testing and proof of concept development and experimental testing
- Grid integration testing for generation/storage/load units, immunity to grid disturbances validation, assessment of electrical grid quality (current harmonics and flicker)
- Energy Management and coordination platform testing
- Endurance and performances tests for power systems and grid components
- Battery testing and characterisation: evaluation and development of charging and aging algorithmic models, validation, testing and second life batteries behaviour characterisation
- Testing of electric vehicles (EVs) electric chargers
- Development and testing of protocols and communication gateways
- Study of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and risks for electric systems
Technical Equipment
The lab can achieve up to 200kVA. The IREC Energy SmartLab is equipped with multiple emulators to control the reactive and active power profiles to simulate both consumption and generation, emulators for the electrical real generation systems of different systems of wind generation and ocean currents (SCIG, DFIG and PMSG), equipment for real storage testing such as batteries, second life batteries or super-capacitor, etc. as well as lines emulators, grid emulators, climate chambers and real-time S-simulators, specifically:
- Battery cycler: 3 units of 500V up to 36kW; together up to 1000V and 72kW (with voltage range from 0 to 1000V).
- Cell/Module cycler: 10 channels of 0-80A each (possible parallel up to 400A) (with voltage range from 1 to 6V).
- Grid Emulators:
- 200kVA – 800Vac & 60kWdc – 700Vdc
- 15kVA -
- Programmable power sources/loads: 2 units of 1,5kW
- RealTime Simulators:
- OPAL-RT
- TyphoonHIL-RT
- Microgrid:
- 7 units of 5kVA
- Other Energy Storage systems and converters.
- Climate Chamber:
- Walk-in Climate Chamber for component testing
- Temperature chambers for cells
Additional information
Technology Readiness Level: 4-6
Special considerations: N/A
Technology clusters: Energy Storage, Hydrogen, Information and Communication Technologies, Integrated Grids, Offshore Wind, Others, PV
Website: https://weblab.energysmartlab.com/home/
Availability: All year
Provision of tools to prepare data sets in a FAIR way: No
