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Fourier Source

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1 Introduction

1 Introduction
The Fourier Source Element (ElmFsrc) of DIgSILENT Power Factory, available since version 13.1, allows the definition of periodical signals in the frequency domain. It can be connected to any other dynamic PowerFactory model, especially to voltage or current source models, thus realizing harmonic voltage or current sources. The element may be used in both the balanced and three phases RMS simulation and in the three phases EMT simulation as well. Typical applications are: Harmonic voltage or current sources for modelling harmonic injections Small signal analysis, calculation of transfer functions

2 Element description
2.1 The element dialog in PF

Figure 1: The data and diagram pages in the ElmFsrc dialog.

Figure 1 shows the data and diagram pages of the element dialog. The user may define minimum frequency and a frequency step size of the harmonic spectrum. For the input of data at every harmonic frequency, additional cells need to be appended. Two methods for generating a time domain signal from the specified spectrum are supported by the Fourier source. These are General Fourier series

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Inverse FFT

Both methods are briefly described in the following sections. The input parameters vary according to the selected calculation approach. While dc-component and frequency step are always to be specified in both cases, a minimum frequency is additionally required for the Fourier Series approach and an oversampling factor for the FFT one. For checking purposes, the specified, periodic signal is immediately shown in time- and frequency domain on the Diagram page of the input dialogue box.

2.2 Modelling approaches

2.2.1 Fourier Series Modelling Approach
When the Fourier Series approach is selected, the output signal yo is calculated by means of a Fourier series, as shown in (1):

y0 (t ) = Ao + Ai cos[2 ( f min + (i 1) f ) t + i ]
i =1

(1)

where

is the frequency step,

A0 the dc component and Ai and i the amplitude and phase of the ith harmonic.

yo defined by (1) is a continuos time domain function and realizes an ideal time-domain signal based on the specified spectrum.
However, many cosine-terms must be evaluated at every time step during a transient simulation, which can lead to slow calculation times in case of many specified frequencies.

2.2.2 Fast Fourier Transform Modelling Approach

In this approach PF calculates the output signal waveform

yo by means of the inverse Fast Fourier Transform (iFFT) algorithm,

which is applied to the discrete spectrum. Unlike the Fourier Series approach, the iFFT must be carried out only once at the beginning of a transient simulation why computational resources are used more efficiently. However, the resulting output signal

yo is a discrete time function and its time step will generally not match the simulation step size. This means that for each simulation time step the value of yo has to be interpolated. This introduces an interpolation error. This interpolation error can
be reduced by applying an over-sampling factor, as described below. The FF Transform pair is defined by Eq. (2) and (3):

N 1 2 j k n TS Y0 ( k ) = Y0 k = y0 (n.TS ).e N T S n=0

(2)

1 N 1 y0 (tn ) = y0 (n TS ) = Y0 ( k ).e j k nTS N k =0

(3)

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Subscripts

and (N-1), where

n and k represent the discrete time tn and discrete frequency k respectively and are permitted to range between 0 N is the number of samples. The following variables correspond to the FFT definition of (2) and (3):

TS =

1 Twindow = fS N

(4)

tn = n TS f0 =

(5)

1
Twindow

1 f = S n TS n 2 n TS

(6)

0 = 2 f 0 =

(7)

2 k = k . 0 = k n T S
As it can be seen from (6), the windowing time only, i.e. the frequency resolution or frequency step. Furthermore,

(8)

Twindow determines the minimum frequency of the discrete frequency spectrum Twindow has no relationship to the maximal frequency. Ts as defined in (4). Due to the time

The maximal frequency is related to the sampling frequency fs, i.e. to the sampling time

sampling, the FFT results in a periodic sequence of uniformly spaced frequencies with a period fs = 1/ Ts. Therefore, the sampling frequency must be chosen in such a way, that no superposition of subsequent harmonic spectrums (aliasing) will occur (comply with the sampling theorem). Factors between 5 and 20 seem to be appropriate in most cases. PF enables the user to specify this ratio by means of the oversampling factor OSF (see Figure 2) defined in (9):

OSF =

fS 2 f max

(9)

where fmax is the maximal frequency of the spectrum. The default value for the oversampling factor is 10 and the user may increase it as necessary. However, it must be pointed out, that with an increasing oversampling factor also the number of samples computational time. The diagram page in the element dialog (see Fig.3) helps the user to select a suitable oversampling factor. By modifying the oversampling factor in the data page, the curve in the diagram is automatically updated. With the zoom tools the user may analyse whether the aproximation is good enough or a higher oversampling factor is still required. Fig.3 depicts an example of the FFT modelling approach. The curves on the right side are a zoom near the peak value of those on the left side.

increases and consequently increasing

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1.00

-1.00

-1.20

0.00 -1.40

-1.60 -1.00

-1.80

-2.00 0.000

0.020 0.040 0.060 0.080 3rd Armonic with Serie: Output 3rd Armonic with FFT /overspl_10: Output 3rd Armonic with FFT /overspl_20: Output 3rd Armonic with FFT /overspl_30: Output

[s]

0.100

-2.00 0.008

0.009 0.010 0.011 3rd Armonic with Serie: Output 3rd Armonic with FFT /overspl_10: Output 3rd Armonic with FFT /overspl_20: Output 3rd Armonic with FFT /overspl_30: Output

[s]

0.012

Figure 2: Influence of the oversampling factor.

Regardless of whether the time discrete output signal yo is a finite-length sequence or a periodic sequence, the FFT treats the N samples of yo as though they characterise one period of a periodic sequence. This period corresponds to the inverse of the frequency step defined by the user. For each transient simulation time step, the output value of yo is linearly interpolated between those values resulting from the iFFT. This interpolation lets introduce an additional selection criterion for the oversampling factor. It seems reasonably, that the sampling time

Ts in Eq.(6) not be in any case smaller than the simulation step size Tstep and therefore, the oversampling factor

may be determined as following:

OSF =

1 2 f max Tstep

(10)

2.3 Parameter Definitions

Table 1 summarizes the parameter definitions of the Fourier Source Element (ElmFsrc), whereas Table 2 shows the output signals.

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Table 1: Parameter Definition of the ElmFsrc

Parameter Loc_name Dc_com Delta_f Overspl F_min Ampl_ Phase_ Description Name DC Component Frequency Step Oversampling Factor (only for the FFT option) Minimum Frequency (only for Fourier Series option) Amplitude Phase Unit -Hz -Hz -Grads

Table 2: Output signals of the ElmFsrc

Parameter Yo Time Description Output signal Time Unit -s

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