Power plant model design using matlab / simscape

Design and verification of voltage and electric power controllers of synchronous generator are complex tasks, which should be often realized by simulation because of the technical and economic difficulties, but the simulation model usually not represents the higher dynamics and nonlinearities of synchronous generator, exciter and network. Therefore it is necessary to implement the proposed new forms of controller (e.g. adaptive, predictive, and robust) on real model instead of simulation model to improve the educational and research process, but the verification of such controllers is not available within the Slovak power system. Because of that it is necessary to create the realistic model of power plant unit. The basic design of the proposed power plant model has to be verified first by simulations using the Matlab physical modeling toolboxes SimScape and SimPowerSystems. The aim of this paper is to show the design process of the proposed power plant model with help of Matlab simulation.