A novel electric power laboratory for power quality and energy studies: training aspects

Domijan, A.; Embriz-Santander, E.

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“…3,8 Research on PQ consists of monitoring which is performed to test electrical device behaviour in the event of a disturbance, detecting disturbances caused by faults or dynamically changing load condition in a distribution system, and assessing the performance of disturbance mitigating devices. The degradation of PQ refers to poorly regulated voltage and distortion of sinusoidal current or voltage waveform by means of harmonics, fl icker and transient events such as voltage sags and swells.…”

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Electric Power Quality Education and Testing Laboratory with Local Utility Contribution

Ece

Agalar

2009

International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education

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An education and testing laboratory with local utility contribution for electric power quality (PQ) studies is presented in this paper. The laboratory functions as an instructional and as a research environment for graduate and senior level undergraduate students. The laboratory structure is discussed in terms of system set up and hardware and software tools utilised to conduct the experiments. Automated PQ event detection and classifi cation tools developed by the students are presented to set an example for some of the PQ-related studies conducted in the laboratory. The local utility company contributes to the studies performed in the laboratory by providing unlimited access to the real-life PQ event data acquired by data loggers connected to its feeder lines. The utilisation and importance of this real-life data in PQ education is also presented.Electric power quality can be defi ned as a measure of how well electric power service is utilised by customers. The degradation of PQ refers to poorly regulated voltage and distortion of sinusoidal current or voltage waveform by means of harmonics, fl icker and transient events such as voltage sags and swells. Some of the factors affecting PQ degradation are distribution system faults, switching of capacitor banks, advanced switching power electronics loads, and as in an arc furnace case, dynamically changing time varying loads connected to the same point of common coupling with other sensitive equipment that require good quality power. 3 These disturbances can reduce manufacturing quality and increase process downtime in industrial applications. 1,2 PQ is a recent subject of interest in power systems education programs due to the increasing commercial awareness in this area. 3,8 Research on PQ consists of monitoring which is performed to test electrical device behaviour in the event of a disturbance, detecting disturbances caused by faults or dynamically changing load condition in a distribution system, and assessing the performance of disturbance mitigating devices. All these tasks can be accomplished by combining power engineering with signal processing, statistics, and probability. Hence, a power quality class designed to refl ect this multi-disciplinary nature of PQ studies would increase interest and encourage enrolment since students would have an opportunity to observe real-life applications of what they learned in other courses. An educational laboratory, equipped with the required instruments to generate both normal and disturbed voltage and current waveforms at variable magnitudes and monitoring instrumentation to acquire generated waveforms while displaying analysis results, is also necessary in order to complete an effective PQ education environment.by guest on

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Electric Power Quality Education and Testing Laboratory with Local Utility Contribution

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Agalar

2009

International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education

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“…Software laboratories explicitly for distribution system planning can be found in [1]. At the University of Florida, a hardware laboratory was established for power quality and energy studies [2]. In Taiwan, a distribution automation laboratory was created for wider types of studies [3].…”

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Hardware Design And Layout Of A Reconfigurable Power Distribution Automation And Control Laboratory (Rdac)

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Yang³

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2002 Annual Conference Proceedings

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This paper will present the hardware design and detailed physical layout of a scaled power distribution system laboratory under construction at Drexel University. Engineers with formal knowledge about power distribution systems are needed to design, upgrade and operate large-scale distribution power systems and their automation and control techniques. In response, at Drexel, we are developing a power distribution systems curriculum centered around a reconfigurable distribution automation and control laboratory, RDAC. This paper focuses on the physical layout and presentation of large-scale distribution power systems.

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Power Quality Conditioners in Smart Power System

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Dhandapani

Natarajan

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Artificial Intelligence‐based Smart Power Systems

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A novel electric power laboratory for power quality and energy studies: training aspects

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Electric Power Quality Education and Testing Laboratory with Local Utility Contribution

Electric Power Quality Education and Testing Laboratory with Local Utility Contribution

Hardware Design And Layout Of A Reconfigurable Power Distribution Automation And Control Laboratory (Rdac)

Power Quality Conditioners in Smart Power System

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