MODELING OF NAVAL SHIPBOARD POWER SYSTEM WITH MATLAB/ SIMULINK

Abstract

Field studies conducted have shown that most faults on Naval Shipboard Power Systems (NSPS) lead to short-circuit. When such situation occurs, heavy current flows through the equipment, thereby causing considerable damage to the equipment and interruption of services in the ship. To conduct fault studies on NSPS, and effective simulation tool can be very helpful towards developing and understanding of the dynamics of short-circuit faults and then evaluating the effectiveness of various solution alternatives. Matlab is a powerful toool which has a power systems blockset/simulink for modeling and simulation of all power system components. In this study, modelling of NSPS with Matlab is presented. Details of the system components model are explained and the transient behaviours of the system under two cases are presented