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Abstract
Designing and testing of any Gas Turbine Electronic Control Unit (ECU) can
be costly, hazard and time consuming. Generally, In Gas Turbine industry there is
more pressure to get products to market faster and reduce design cycle time. This has
led to a need for the dynamic testing, where components are tested while in use with
the entire system, either real or simulated.
In this thesis, a low-cost single shaft Gas Turbine (ECU) testing system is
proposed using the concept of Hardware-In-The-Loop (HIL). In the proposed system
some of the control system components are real hardware components and others are
simulated. First, whole Gas Turbine system is modeled based on past models then the
model is modified and verified. The measurement and control system is modified and
simulated using MATLAB / SIMULINK® and NI-LabVIEW / Control Design and
Simulation®, Then the system was tested and validated under high levels ofdisturbances more than before and compared its performance to the older model. The
model is changed to be in the form of Real Time simulation model. Second, the
Hardware-In-The-Loop testing system is implemented. Therefore, the simulation part
of the (ECU) is replaced by real hardware. A Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)
system is used as an (ECU), which is connected to the simulation of the other system
parts to work together as a complete system. An experimental setup of the used (HIL)
has been tested. Experimental results of (HIL) are obtained and compared with the
simulation results. Finally, the experimental results indicate the validation of (HIL)
method in this domain.