Acquisition of Instrumentation for the Electric Energy Processing Systems Laboratory at UPRM

位于Mayaguez的波多黎各大学的能源系统小组（UPRM）提议收购仪器，将能源研究基础设施升级到15 kVA。拟议的仪器包括电力电子转换器、测功机、变压器和测试用电动机、浪涌发生器、电能质量分析仪、计算机和数据采集卡以及测量设备。专家组要求这些仪器改进电能处理系统实验室现有的计算和实验设施。为了在能源系统，特别是电力电子和电能质量领域开展研究项目和有意义的行业合作，改善这一研究设施至关重要。所要求的仪器还将用于开发设计项目和实验室实验，以改进研究培训活动（研究生和大学生一级）。这些工具将通过本科生研究项目、研讨会、专题课程和演示将研究带入课堂。拟议的仪器仪表将为扩大电力系统、电力电子应用、替代能源和电能质量方面的研究和教育范围提供所需的资源。EEPSL将更好地将UPRM工作整合到电力电子系统中心（CPES）的主流研究中。UPRM是CPES的核心学术合作伙伴，CPES是由弗吉尼亚理工大学领导的NSF ERC。EEPSL目前的能力只允许测试低于500瓦的模型和设备。该设备将提供工具，用于使用更高功率水平的电力系统的缩放版本验证模型。该实验室还将作为电机、驱动器和其他工业规模负载等设备的测试设施。加勒比地区没有象欧洲环境保护和安全中心这样的设施、其人员和更好的资源。

The Energy Systems Group at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez (UPRM) proposes the acquisition of instrumentation to upgrade energy research infrastructure to 15 kVA. Proposed instrumentation includes power electronics converters, dynamometers, transformers and motors for testing, a surge generator, power quality analyzers, computers and data acquisition cards, and measuring devices. The Group is requesting these instruments to improve existing computational and experimental facilities at the Electric Energy Processing Systems Laboratory (EEPSL). Improving this research facility is vital in order to carry out research projects and meaningful industry collaborations in energy systems, especially in power electronics and power quality. The requested instruments will also be used to develop design projects and laboratory experiments that will improve research training activities (graduate and undergraduate levels). These tools will bring research to the classroom through undergraduate research projects, seminars, special topics courses and demonstrations.The proposed instrumentation will provide resources needed to expand the scope of research and education in power systems, power electronics applications, alternate energy sources, and power quality. EEPSL will be better equipped to integrate UPRM work to mainstream research of the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES). UPRM is a core academic partner in CPES, an NSF ERC led by Virginia Tech. Current capabilities at EEPSL only allow testing of models and equipment below 500 Watts. The equipment will provide tools for the validation of models using scaled-versions of a power system at higher power levels. The laboratory will also serve as a testing facility for devices such as motors, drives and other industrial-size loads. A facility such as EEPSL, its personnel and improved resources, does not exist in the Caribbean.