Smart Grid / Micro Grid
These training systems cover training concepts for renewable energies and integration into smart grids as well as classic power generation and distribution.
Smart Grid Training Systems
Basic Smart Grid Equipment Set
This equipment set is the heart of the smart grid inside the power engineering laboratory. In addition to power generation, transmission and distribution, the SCADA software is used to collect all the values and trigger corresponding switching operations.Â
This can be done manually and also automatically via Soft PLC. The smart grid control centre detects and monitors the feed-in of generated energy and any load variations and also carries out corresponding countermeasures to keep the power grid stable. This set includes:
- Three-phase double busbar system
- Investigations on three-phase power lines
- Overcurrent time protection for power lines
- Complex loads, energy consumption metering and peak load monitoring
- Manually activated and automatic reactive power compensation
- Load management – demand-side management
- Intelligent control of power generators and consumers
Extension Add-On’s:
- EPH3 – Professional Photovoltaics
- EWG1 – Wind power plants (turbines)
- EDC – High-Voltage DC Power Transmission
- EUG – Synchronisation Circuits
- ECS1 – Industrial Cyber Security
- EUK – Pumped Storage and Conventional Power Plants
- EUT – Investigating Transformers
- EUL – Power Transmission Lines
- ELP – Line Protection
Micro Grid Training Systems
Basic off-grid parallel mode / Microgrid Set
When this standalone system is coupled to the smart grid, then it is referred to as the microgrid. It has three operating modes: on-grid, off-grid and dual-mode.Â
Microgrids will play a central role in the smart grids of the future. Benefits include:
- Reduction of power transmission and transformer losses
- Independence from large power utilities
- Smart grid as a back-up system
- Intelligent power supply control and load control using SCADA
- Power generation with renewable energies
- Optimum current quality, reliability and sustainability
This basic set includes:
- Automatic control of several generators in off-grid operation
- Automatic control of several generators in grid-parallel operation
- Coordination of energy demand and generation in off-grid mode
- Deployment of modern IT technology such as networked sensors/actuators, PLC control and SCADA user interfaceÂ
- “Smart Metering” of a balance node to make a subnetwork autonomous.
- Manual control
- Automatic voltage control
- Automatic frequency control
- Automatic torque control
- Automatic cos-phi control
- Droop control
Extension Add On’s:
- EUG 3 – Pumped Storage Power Plant
- EMG 2 – Additional secondary system
- EWG 1 – Wind power plants (turbines) (up to three supplements)
- EPH 3 – Professional Photovoltaics
- EUC 2 – Dynamic loads
- ECS 1 – Industrial Cyber Security
SCADA for Smart Grid Cybersecurity
SCADA for Power Engineering Lab
SCADA for the Power Engineering Lab is a software designed for the control and monitoring of power engineering systems. Inside the software, all measurement values and operating states can be displayed on measuring devices within the system in real time.Â
Critical parameters and signals can be controlled by the software. The measured values and operating states of the devices can be selected, recorded and plotted over time. Signal evaluation and export are also possible. The SCADA Designer is used to create user interfaces. The Viewer is the SCADA system used for system control operation and monitoring.Â
SCADA Designer
- Freely configurable user interfaces
- Icon configuration for all Lucas-Nülle equipment used in power engineering
- Standardized electronic switching symbols for the visualization of circuits
- Individually configurable lists of measurement values for any number of measurements
- Display of measurement values and operating states in real time
- Implementation and analysis of the Smart Grid
- Design of several worksheets per system
SCADA Viewer
- Permits full system control
- Analysis of smart grid
- Display of measurement values and operating states in real time
- Configure files created with SCADA Designer
- Sample file templates for all experiments
- Multiuser-capable