ELECTRICAL POWER ENGINEERING Electrical Power Engineering – GTU Introduction: The electrical energy is today an essential factor for the industrial and social development of any country. It is commonly obtained from non-re-generative sources such as fossil fuels, and as consumption per capita and population grow, its limited production needs to be efficiently managed to satisfy the increasing world demand. Modern electric power systems have grown and expanded geographically becoming more and more complex. The planning, monitoring, and management of such systems, require advanced analysis and control techniques for network interconnection, energy management and storage, and the integration of distributed renewable energy sources in the future Smart Grid implementations. Description: The GTU trainer has been designed to provide students with a fully comprehensive knowledge in Electrical Power Engineering systems, subdivided into four major study areas: Electric power generation Electric power transmission and distribution Electric power use Protection techniques
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ELECTRICAL POWER ENGINEERING
Electrical Power Engineering – GTU
Introduction: The electrical energy is today an essential factor for the industrial and social development of any country. It is commonly obtained from non-re-generative sources such as fossil fuels, and as consumption per capita and population grow, its limited production needs to be efficiently managed to satisfy the increasing world demand. Modern electric power systems have grown and expanded geographically becoming more and more complex. The planning, monitoring, and management of such systems, require advanced analysis and control techniques for network interconnection, energy management and storage, and the integration of distributed renewable energy sources in the future Smart Grid implementations.
Description: The GTU trainer has been designed to provide students with a fully comprehensive knowledge in Electrical Power Engineering systems, subdivided into four major study areas:
Electric power generation
Electric power transmission and distribution
Electric power use
Protection techniques
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Key characteristics
• Scaled down model of entire power distribution system
• Reconfigurable lab composed of discrete elements
• Industrial grade devices
Modularity
• Software to supervise and control all the active components of the network
• Software based learning platform structured following a didactic approach
• Open software platform for full customization
Open SCADA Web
• Multidisciplinary laboratory that covers from the most basic concepts of electrical engineering to more advanced configurations
• Hands-on, experiment based, training platform
Didactic approach
• Students interact with real industrial equipment
• Platform for simulating real scenarios
• Development of analytical and troubleshooting skills
Skills development
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Modularity
Each trainer is composed of a set of modules representing a scaled down version of the various sections forming a complete electrical power system.
Industrial grade equipment has been integrated into a controlled environment, providing a flexible and reconfigurable learning platform to study electrical power engineering applications.
High voltage 400 kV power transmission lines, represented by 400 V lines in the
laboratory.
Real electrical generator is used to produce electrical power.
Dedicated digital multifunction instruments used for accurate measurements.
Industrial devices integrated in the system for monitoring and protection
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Open SCADA Web
The full system is controlled by an industrial Supervision and Control Data Acquisition (SCADA) software that
communicates with all the active devices in the trainer to provide real-time measurements, system status
and system control.
The software is structured following a didactic
approach, dividing each unit of study into single
exercises.
The open SCADA-WEB licence gives the teachers the possibility to create their own projects and
fully customize the experiments by displaying the parameters of interest
and controlling the actuators for an
“intelligent” power management.
Depending on the configuration, the
software can be used to monitor the system
remotely from a local or remote PC using an internet connection
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Didactic approach:
The laboratory follows a top down architecture, dividing each topic in learning units and in single exercises
that build up knowledge progressively from the most basic concepts of electrical engineering to the more
advanced network configurations.
From bottom to top:
Hardware components.
Major application trainers (generation, transmission and distribution, or use).
Smart layer that uses the knowledge and data from the single applications to create management facilities.
From front to back:
Technical and theoretical documentation.
Practical experiments that reproduce some real-life scenarios.
Real life implementation.
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Skills development:
This multidisciplinary laboratory aims to provide a progressive hands-on learning tool to be used throughout the power engineering course program, thus developing skills at various levels:
Basic:
• Circuits theory: validate the basic electric laws and circuit theory using three-phase power.
• Electrical measurements: Use of industrial measurement devices and protection relays.
Intermediate:
• Electric machines: study of a three-phase transformer, and alternator or a motor acting as load.
• Power electrical engineering: generation, transmission, distribution and use of electrical power.
Advanced:
• Grid: Study of different network topologies.
• Energy management: Power flow control, fault simulation and troubleshooting.
• Introduction to intelligent power systems "Smart Grid".
