Engineering Equipment Grant: Computer Aided Design and Analysis of Electric Power Distribution Systems

该设备奖将允许建立一个计算机图形设施，以支持电力分配系统的计算机辅助设计和分析方面的研究。四个项目将使用这些设备，它们涉及：负荷建模、馈线重新配置、谐波传播和人工智能在电力系统中的应用。这些项目主要涉及配电自动化系统，这导致了许多新的一般性问题需要研究。这些项目是由北卡罗来纳州新成立的电力研究中心(EPRC)赞助的，该中心是一个得到电力行业公司支持的组织，旨在促进基础和应用研究。所要求的设备包括图形工作站、数字化板、彩色绘图仪以及用于现有MICROVAX配置的硬件和软件。拟议的设备将补充DEC MICROVAX-II和现有的以太网接口设备。这一额外的图形功能将用于促进大型分配系统数据库的操作，并以更全面的方式显示结果。

This equipment award will allow the establishment of a computer graphics facility to support research in the computer aided design and analysis of electric power distribution systems. Four projects will use the equipment, they involve; load modelling, feeder reconfiguration, harmonic propagation and applications of artificial intelligence to power systems. These projects are primarily related to the distribution automation system which has caused many new general problems to be investigated. The projects are being sponsored by the newly established Electric Power Research Center (EPRC) at N.C. State which is an organization supported by electric power industry companies to promote basic and applied research. The equipment being requested includes a graphics workstation, digitizing board, color plotter and also hardware and software for the existing MICROVAX configuration. The proposed equipment will supplement a DEC MICROVAX-II and ETHERNET interfacing equipment already in place. This additional graphics capability will be used to facilitate the manipulation of large distribution system data bases and to represent results in a more comprehensive fashion.