For the Factory Acceptance Test members of RWTH Aachen travelled to OPAL-RT in Montreal to supervise the completion of the prespecified test cases. On one hand, the basic protection functionalities to protect the equipment were tested, one the other hand dedicated test cases relevant for the studies in PROMOTioN were conducted. It was demonstrated that the lab-scale converters are capable to operate both in a monopole point-to-point configuration at ±200 V transmitting 6 kW, as well as a bipole point-to-point configuration at ±400 V transmitting 12 kW.

The four tested and four additional converters will now be shipped to the laboratory site at RWTH Aachen University where they will be combined with power amplifiers and real-time simulators resulting in a lab infrastructure that allows control-hardware-in-the-loop and power-hardware-in-the-loop investigations of meshed HVDC grids.