Converter

Model interface of Converter

This component models electrical converter by efficiency model.

IO Converter

Fig. 47 I/O Converter

System may be ON or OFF and gives acccess to its States variable for combined constraints. Power in is limited to MaxPower value. This MaxPower can be optimized if the corresponding given parameter is negative.

The efficiency can follow three models:

  • simple (by default): the parameter Efficiency is constant

  • given by a timeseries: the parameter Efficiency is multiplied by the timeseries UseProfilConverterUse

  • given by a performance map. See the dedicated part in the documentation for more information.

Caution

Additional input and output fluxes can be added but if they represent another energy carrier than the variable, do not forget to set CheckUnit to NO. For instance, if we want to represent a water consumption that represent 1% of the input power, we can add an input dedicated port with the variable InputFlux and a coefficient A of 0.01 but we must set CheckUnit to NO!

Expressions table of Converter

See also Expressions table of TechnicalSubModel for generic options

Table. 17 Converter

Expression name

Unit

Mandatory

Description

PowerIn

mExpPower_In

mPortPowerIn->pFluxUnit

\

MaxPower

mExpSizeMax

mPortPowerIn->pFluxUnit

\

PowerOut

mExpPower_Out

mPortPowerOut->pFluxUnit

\

Model variables of Converter

Table. 18 Converter variables table

Variable name

dimension

Associated Expr

size

varMin

varMax

varType

mPower_Out

1

mHorizon

fabs(mMaxPowerOut)

double

mPower_In

1

mHorizon

fabs(mMaxPower)

double