LAUSR.org creates dashboard-style pages of related content for over 1.5 million academic articles. Sign Up to like articles & get recommendations!

An Original Smart-Grids Test Bed to Teach Feeder Automation Functions in a Distribution Grid

Photo by dannyg from unsplash

This paper proposes the description of an original smart-grids test bed aimed at teaching novel feeder automation functions to students from both university and industry origins. With this test bed,… Click to show full abstract

This paper proposes the description of an original smart-grids test bed aimed at teaching novel feeder automation functions to students from both university and industry origins. With this test bed, a lab class proposes to students, first, to develop feeder automation functions using scientific software and, then, to experiment by practically testing them on an emulated distribution grid platform, called PREDIS. This platform includes real medium-voltage reduced-scale loads, generators, and a supervisory control and data acquisition system. The presented lab class is part of a dedicated complete pedagogic module with lectures and experiments. Through the development, the tests and the deployments of their own solutions in an actual distribution grid, the students learn by doing from theory to practice the complete chain of smart-grids solutions: from the electrical to the communication layers.

Keywords: distribution grid; feeder automation; test bed; automation functions; smart grids

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Year Published: 2018

Link to full text (if available)


Share on Social Media:                               Sign Up to like & get
recommendations!

Related content

More Information              News              Social Media              Video              Recommended



                Click one of the above tabs to view related content.