Ship power system testing and simulation

This paper highlights the capability at CAPS and some of the key research efforts underway in support of the Navy´s all-electric ship program. This includes the testing and evaluation of the 5 MW superconducting prototype propulsion motor developed by American Superconductor Corporation for ONR and the application of the RTDS in ship system simulation and hardware in the loop testing of controls, protection and rapid reconfiguration and power transfer. A major part of the work is to develop and validate component models for the ship electrical system, such as the various types of propulsion motors, their drives, other power electronic converters for AC-DC-AC and DC-DC distribution and zonal loads and power sources for pulse power weapons and directed energy weapons of the next generation navy ships.