by Francois Berthelot, OPAL-RT TECHNOLOGIES Learn more at www.opal-rt.com

1. February 15th, 2017 www.opal-rt.com
OPAL-RT Technologies welcomes you to:
OPAL-RT’s Regional User Seminar
Atlanta, GA
February 15th, 2017

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TODAY’S PANEL OF EXPERTS
Rishabh Das
Research Associate, PhD Student,
The University of Alabama in Huntsville

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OUR PARTNER TODAY
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TODAY’S ATTENDEES ARE FROM….

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TODAY’S AGENDA
Time Agenda
7:30 AM Breakfast and registration … DONE!
8:30 AM Welcome, industry updates, new trends and technologies – by François Berthelot, OPAL-RT Technologies
9:30 AM PANEL 1: REAL-TIME SIMULATION APPLIED TO POWER SYSTEMS
• Hardware Implementation of an Automatic Adaptive Centralized under Frequency Load Shedding Scheme – by Ahmed H Eltom, PhD, P.E., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• Comparison of non-real-time and real-time simulators with relays in-the-loop for adaptive overcurrent protection – by Emilio C. Piesciorovsky, Tennessee Technological University
• Real-time Volt/Var Optimization Scheme for Distribution Systems with PV Integration - by Andrea Benigni Ph.D., University of South Carolina
11:15 AM PARTNER TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
• AC Power Systems for Grid Simulation – by Mahesh Thaker, BSEE, Ametek Programmable Power
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
• Residential Battery Storage Systems, Design support experience using Hardware-in-the-Loop – by Andres Salazar Llinas, Sonnen Inc
• Virtual Industrial Control Systems with OPAL-RT – by Rishabh Das, Research Associate, on behalf of Tommy Morris, PhD, University of Alabama in Huntsville
• Selected Activities of Using Opal-RT System in Power and Energy Systems Research - by Shuhui Li, Ph.D., The University of Alabama
2:30 PM Coffee Break
2:45 PM Real-Time Microgrid demos by Thomas Kirk, OPAL-RT Technologies
3:30 PM Open discussions about industry best practices
4:00 PM Closing remarks – by Francois Berthelot, OPAL-RT Technologies

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VENUE – Sheraton Atlanta Airport
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Breakfast, breaks
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7. • Established in 1997 in Montreal, Canada
• Over 150 employees
• More than 500 customers worldwide
• President, CEO & CTO and founder: Jean Bélanger
(25 years at Hydro-Québec Research Institute (IREQ))
Real-time simulation and Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) for:
Power systems
Power electronics
Aerospace
Automotive
OPAL-RT IN BRIEF

8. • OPAL-RT Latin America (OPAL-RT LATAM) will be located in Santiago, Chile
• OPAL-RT LATAM will cover Mexico, the Carribean, Central America and South America
• Target opening date: July 2017
• Why OPAL-RTLA?
• Better support current customers and utilities
• Be close to our clients and offer services
• Develop the market, support sales and distributors
• Actively participate in local projects and activities
OPAL-RT NEWS – OPAL-RT LATAM
Julie Fortin-Morin
Director, Business
Development• Distributors and Partners
• Argentina: Tracnova
• Brazil: Nova Didacta, TAG Inovaçao
• Chile: Conecta
• Colombia: PTI S.A
• Mexico: Edutelsa

9. • OPAL-RT’s small footprint in the U.S. currently consists of OPAL-RT Corporation:
• 3 employees in Michigan: sales and on-site support for the automotive industry
• 1 employee in California: executive director of U.S. technical services, research collaborations
• OPAL-RT is involved in funded projects from:
• ARPA-E (NODES)
• EERE (SuNLaMP, ENERGISE)
• CEC (UC Irvine)
• …
All the work related to these projects must be executed in the U.S.
OPAL-RT NEWS – R&D in the U.S.
Ravinder Venugopal, Ph.D.
Executive Director, U.S. Technical Services
• OPAL-RT is looking at expanding its R&D footprint in the
U.S., in order to successfully complete those projects and in
order to apply on similar upcoming funding opportunities.
Right now we are looking at a real-time simulation specialist
/ field-application engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area
and will be looking at a Ph.D. in the same field soon.

10. • In October 2016, the Government of Canada announced an investment of up to $54 Million in Next-Generation
Aircraft Technologies
• The consortium is led by Bombardier and includes Rolls-Royce, Thales, OPAL-RT, Quaternion Aerospace, FusiA,
Liebherr, Axis and Microturbo (Safran). Knowledge institutions collaborating on the project include the University
of Victoria, McGill University, Polytechnique Montréal, University of Toronto, and Ryerson University.
OPAL-RT NEWS – Next Gen Aircraft Technologies
• This project focuses on the development of next-
generation aircraft technologies, such as state-of-
the-art electric systems to replace traditional
pneumatic and hydraulic systems. It will also involve
replacing conventional mechanical flight controls
with electronic interfaces that allow aircraft
computers to perform tasks without pilot input.
• OPAL-RT has been hired to:
• Phase 1: Provide a software-in-the-loop (SIL) real-time simulation platform for the aircraft electric system,
with capabilities to import supplier models
• Phase 2: Provide a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) platform for testing

11. Our new website is now online!
• Search by Application, Industry or Type of
Simulation.
• Browse through our new Resource Center for
datasheets, manuals, brochure, videos and
demo.
• Access our Download Center for software
downloads.
WHAT’S NEW – www.opal-rt.com !

12. Now Available:
• TDNG – TestDrive Next Generation
• LabVIEW panels inside RT-LAB for
monitoring and control
• IEEE 1588
• IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol
• Dashboards on tablets through WiFi
• Monitor and control the simulation
from a tablet
WHAT’S NEW – eMEGAsim / RT-LAB

13. Upcoming:
• RT-LAB I/O Server
• Independent from the Simulink
model
• For standard I/Os and drivers as
well
• Fixing 4000 warnings!
WHAT’S NEW – eMEGAsim / RT-LAB

14. Now Available:
• Lighter versions of eHS Gen3
• eHS x16 for NI cRIO 9068 (Zynq 7020)
• eHS x32 for small FPGAs : OP5600 Virtex 6 240T
OP4200 Zynq 7030
• eHS x64 for large FPGAs : OP5700 Virtex 7 485T (2 cores)
OP4510 Kintex 7 325T/410T
cRIO 903x Kintex 7 325T
PXIe-7976R FlexRIO Kintex 7 410T
• Improvements to eHS in PSIM and PLECS
• Support of Loss Compensation Algorithm (LCA) in PSIM and PLECS
• Support of PSIM 10
• Support of PLECS 3.7
• Improvements to eHS in MATLAB
• Support of thyristors in SimPowerSystems
• Support of Matlab r2015aSP1
• Selectable Digital I/Os within a single firmware
Upcoming:
• eHS x128
• 144 switches (eHSx64 = 72)
• 250 voltage/current measurements
• Virtex 7 support (1 core)
• Electric motor packaging
(BLDC, PMSM, SRM, DFIG, …)
WHAT’S NEW - eFPGAsim

15. Now Available:
• HYPERSIM on Windows
• Ease of use, new graphical interface
• Prepare models and run offline on your Windows computer, no simulator required
• Easy migration from HYPERSIM Linux to HYPERSIM Windows
• Support of CentOS (optional)
• 4x more switches per task
• 32x faster compilation (parallel) / 1.5x faster simulation
• New communication protocols
• OPC UA Server
• IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol
• New driver architecture: performance and flexibility enhanced
Upcoming:
• New libraries
• IEEE turbines, governors, PSS and exciters
• Relays: Differential, distance, over current,
under excitation, under voltage, over voltage,
frequency and a PMU model
• I/O interface
• Graphical interface for I/O and sensors
• No more text file editing
Long term:
• PSCAD support in HYPERSIM
• eHS support in HYPERSIM
• Import PSS/E models in HYPERSIM
WHAT’S NEW - HYPERSIM

16. Now Available:
• Power flow for positive sequence (balanced) networks
• Dynamic simulation only, Power-flow only, Power-flow and dynamic simulation
• Newton-Raphson numerical method. Selectable nb of iterations and tolerance.
• Export power flow results to Excel and .csv files
• Importation of CYME files
• Import .sxst network data files
• Import CYME’s load-flow (bus voltages) through Excel for dynamic initialization
• New library components
• Modelica-based library: generators, exciters, PSS, turbine governors
• Models for wind turbines, FACTS and SVC in FMU format
Improvements:
• Improvement in performance
• 10% to 20% improvement: reduction of offline simulation time
• Greatest increase witnessed on FMU-based / positive sequence networks
• Parallelization / Optimization for offline Windows simulation
• Previously, offline simulations were limited to run on a single core
• Now, parallelization across multiple cores on Windows is possible and automatic
• Optimal number of cores to use is automatically calculated
Upcoming:
• Dedicated ePHASORsim Python API
• Facilitate simulation interaction
• Facilitate test automation
WHAT’S NEW - ePHASORsim

17. Detailed Power Converter
Large-Scale T&D Network
Detailed Microgrid
All-integrated Real-Time Co-Simulation
Environment
1-10 ms
7-100 us
200 ns – 2 us
WHAT’S NEW – Co-Simulation Environment

18. Flagship Real-Time Digital Simulator
• Xilinx Virtex 7 485T FPGA
• Up to 32 Intel Xeon E5 cores 2.3 ~ 3 GHz
• Support up to 8 I/O cards
• 16 SFP multi-mode fiber optic
• 5 PCI Express slots for:
• I/O expansion boxes
• 4-Port Ethernet cards
• Time-synchronization cards
• Third-party I/O cards
• …
WHAT’S NEW – OP5707

19. Entry-Level Real-Time Simulator
• Xilinx Zynq All Programmable SoC
XCZ7030
• Kintex-7 FPGA, 125K logic cells
• Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor
667 MHz
• Support up to 4 I/O cards
• 2 SFP multi-mode fiber optic
• 2 CAN bus
• 2 RS-232 full duplex serial ports
Ideal for:
• Power converters
on FPGA via eHS
x32
• Control algorithms
in Simulink via RT-
LAB
WHAT’S NEW – OP4200

20. Lab-Scale MMC Test Bench
• 400 VDC, 15ADC, 6kW
• 10 submodules / half-arm (11 levels)
• OP1210 H-Bridge submodule specs:
• 10 MOSFET H-Bridge cells per OP1210
• 40V, 15 Arms
• Max switching frequency: 50kHz
• 500 ksps cell current/capacitor voltage measurement
• OP4510 included as controller
WHAT’S NEW – Lab-Scale MMC Test Bench

21. OPAL-RT POLLS – Microgrids
28%
13%
18%
8%
33%
13%
27%
2%
32%
21%

22. OPAL-RT POLLS – Electric Transportation

23. OPAL-RT POLLS - MMC
56%
11%
11%
14%
3%
5%
61%
22%
11%
7%
10%
20%
62%

24. OPAL-RT POLLS – WAMPAC
Note: For these polls, voters could select more than 1 answer.

25. OPAL-RT POLLS – Cybersecurity
Note: For this poll, voters could select more than 1 answer.
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Real-time application development
Standards compliance testing and certification
Risk assessment studies
Communication system development and testing
Control system development and testing
Which of these cybersecurity applications have you used or plan on using?
48%
29%
38%
48%
58%

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IF THERE IS ANYTHING WE CAN HELP YOU WITH…
Today’s Team
Francis Bédard Business Development
François Berthelot Sales Engineer
Ana Bertolucci Marketing & Communications Manager
Vanessa Broccoli Marketing Event Coordinator
Thomas Kirk Sales Engineer
Do not hesitate to let us know!
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