ELECTRICAL POWER ENGINEERING

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 complex over time. 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.

With our didactic benches combine industrial grade hardware and an open SCADA software platform 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 and protection techniques.

The main characteristics of our didactic benches are the following:

• 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. The modules, based on industrial grade equipment, provide a flexible and reconfigurable learning platform to study electrical power engineering applications.
• 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. Structured using a didactic approach, the software includes an open SCADA licence to give the teachers the possibility to create new projects and fully customize the experiments.
• Didactic approach: The multidisciplinary laboratory covers from the most basic concepts of electrical engineering to the simulation of more advanced configurations and network topologies.
• Skills development: The didactic experience allows the student to simulate different real life scenarios and acquire analytical troubleshooting skills through practical hands-on training.