Computer Controlled Smart Grids Application

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The Computer Controlled Smart Grids Application, "AEL-BSGC", has been designed by EDIBON to study the smart grids in the generation, transmission, distribution and load consumption fields. Students and teachers of universities and research laboratories schools can easily study and investigate how a real smart grid works since electrical energy is produced till it is consumed, analyzing problems and solutions in each part of the process or as the whole. The "AEL-BSGC" includes a 1 kVA three-phase synchronous generator-motor group which is used to study the production of electricity. The synchronous generator is coupled to a three-phase induction motor of squirrel cage controlled through a variable frequency drive. With the frequency controller the user can control (manual and automatic) the induction motor speed and reproduce any power generation condition. In addition, the generator excitation is controlled by an AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulator) that allows user to control (manual and automatic) the current excitation of the synchronous generator. This device is an advanced speed and voltage controller and allows to study the operation of a real speed and voltage controller, syn