Battery Emulation System

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Tendering Procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid
Competitive Procurement Strategy: Lowest/Lower Bid
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Nature of Requirements: 

Battery Emulation System

31184-196541/A
Courteau, Robert
Telephone No. - (343) 550-1614

1. Background: 

In the current times of intensive research and development in electrification of aircraft propulsion systems, the NRC is in preparation to conduct advanced on-ground research in Hybrid-Electric aircraft propulsion systems. In order to conduct such research the NRC requires a technologically advanced Battery Emulator System. This system will be used to simulate batteries (Energy Storage) to provide electric power to high power-density axial flux motors through specialized inverters at multiple DC [Direct Current] voltages as well as for testing batteries. 

2.0 General Requirements 

1. The Contractor is responsible for all packaging, crating and transportation.
2. The Contractor is responsible to deliver the equipment to 1200 Montreal Rd. Building M-10, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0R6 
3. The Contractor is responsible for installation review and commissioning support of the equipment; this includes support for initial startup and acceptance tests. The review, commissioning support can be done on-site or remotely by mutual written agreement between the NRC and the Contractor. The acceptance of the battery emulator will be provided by the NRC in writing to the Contractor after all the testing has been completed to the satisfaction of the NRC, in accordance with the mandatory technical requirements described in section 3 of this document and after all the conditions of the section 2 (General Requirements) of this document will be met.
4. The Contractor must provide training for four NRC users. In this training, the Contractor must present the key operational functionalities of the battery emulator, the safety precautions and procedures, as well as the procedures for on-site trouble-shooting to be done by the NRC technical staff. The training must be scheduled no later than 5 days after the final commissioning and must be provided no later than 10 days after the final commissioning date, unless otherwise required by the NRC in written. The training can be performed on-site or remotely by mutual written agreement between the NRC and the Contractor. The Contractor must provide an electronic copy of the training material to each of the participants 3 days prior to the training date.
5. The Contractor must provide assistance in case of failure of the battery emulator within 48 hours. The Contractor must provide, upon delivery of the battery emulator, the contact information for their service centre and a list of the key contact personnel, including the names and phone numbers of Supervisors, Managers and key technical contacts.
6. The Contractor must provide remote assistance to the NRC end users in case of technical questions about the battery emulator hardware and software without additional cost to the NRC for a minimum period of one year.  
7. The Contractor must provide 2 Hardcopies and one Electronic copy of the manuals of the battery emulator in English at the time of delivery. The manuals must cover installation, commissioning, operation, programming and troubleshooting of the battery emulator.
8. The Contractor will have access to the facility during normal working hours (8:30 to 16:30 Local time) after satisfactory security check previously arranged.
9. The Contractor must deliver the battery emulator with all required software to control and execute automated testing for all operational modes of the battery emulator. The software must be installed in the battery emulator prior to delivery. The Contractor must also provide one separate backup copy of the software at the time of delivery. The software provided must be the most current software version available for the battery emulator.
10. The Contractor must provide all the software updates for the battery emulator for the following two (2) years starting from the date of delivery at no additional cost to the NRC.
11. The Contractor must provide a full calibration certificate of the battery emulator at the time of delivery, with a validity period of at least one year. The Calibration Certificate must not be older than 3 weeks from the date of shipment of the unit.
12. The Contractor must cover the battery emulator hardware and software with a warrantee valid for a minimum of one year for parts and labor.
13. The Contractor is the sole responsible for the cost of the battery emulator CSA [Canadian Standards Association] certification. Under no circumstances the NRC will accept additional cost for the CSA certification process.   
14. All deliverables would ideally be received by January 31st 2020, and must be received by February 21st 2020.


3.0 Technical Requirements:

The Contractor must supply a Battery Emulator that meets the following mandatory technical requirements to be declared responsive. 

1. The Battery Emulator must be an existing, commercially-available system with all its components contained in a single cabinet; including all functionalities for power conversion, cooling, controls, measurement, operational data display, research data display, data logging, safety, programmable protections, external communication interface and software to operate the battery emulator and manage the research data.
2. The battery emulator must supply a minimum power of 100kW [kilowatts] in a single output.
3. The battery emulator must have a grid connection with the following specifications: 3 phase plus ground, 480 or 600 V [Volts] AC [Alternative Current], frequency of 60Hz [Hertz], bi-directional.
4. The battery emulator must deliver a DC output voltage from 50 V to 1000 V (or higher); selected by the user within this range.
5. The battery emulator must supply a current of 300 A [Amperes] DC or higher.
6. The battery emulator must be capable of emulating a lithium-Ion battery within the voltage range specified in requirement number 4, regulating the voltage while sinking or providing current as required by the testing activity. 
7. The battery emulator must be capable of receiving the back EMF [Electromotive Force] coming from the DC motors without damage to itself; behaving as a regenerative DC load with an efficiency equal or better than 75% [percent] and putting the discharged power back to the AC power grid; without producing perturbations to the AC power grid.
8. The battery emulator must be capable of performing automatic battery testing under international standards of IEC [International Electrotechnical Commission] and ISO [International Organization for Standardization] standard 12405-1.
9. The battery emulator must have high accuracy measurements for DC voltage, DC current and DC power with a maximum error of ±0.2% of the measured value; and must also be capable of storing, displaying and exporting the measured data to an external PC [Personal Computer].
10. The Battery emulator must display graphically, in multiple colours, the real-time measurements values and the trends of the measured values in a time scale defined by the user. 
11. The battery emulator must have built-in [integrated inside the enclosure of the battery emulator] safety features that must include, at a minimum, user programmable alarms and protections for abnormal voltage, abnormal current, abnormal power, abnormal temperature, as well as built-in self-check routines of the battery emulator normal operation. All abnormal conditions and warnings must be detected and immediately reported to the user through the screen and/or dedicated lights and audible alarms and logged in the battery emulator memory. 
12. The battery emulator must have built-in discrete and analog inputs and outputs to connect with external equipment.
13. The Battery emulator must have a dedicated manual emergency shutdown pushbutton which must be installed in the main control panel of the battery emulator and at least one discrete input for a remote wired emergency shutdown coming from an external device.
14. The battery emulator must have programmable slew rates and must respond to a current change from 10% to 80% in 3ms [milliseconds] or less.
15. The battery emulator must be capable of accepting future upgrades to deliver higher power levels without the need of being returned to the manufacturer to reach 300kW or higher.
16. The battery emulator must have a built-in Ethernet communications interface and must have compatibility to be controlled through LabView® software.
17. The battery emulator must have CSA [Canadian Standards Association] certification. The CSA Certification Mark must be clearly visible on the outside of the enclosure of the battery emulator. A document that certifies the CSA certification of the battery emulator must be provided by the Contractor to the NRC as part of the supporting documentation for the bidding process. This certificate of compliance must include the manufacturer and model number of the battery emulator system.
18. As part of the supporting documentation for the bidding process, the Contractor must provide drawings, electrical schematics and a complete list of the electrical requirements to the NRC for installation of the battery emulator.

 Support Provided by Canada:
 
• NRC will be responsible for preparing the site and completing the electrical connections from the Battery Emulator System to the NRC electrical grid.

Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.