MRI: Acquisition of a Real Time Digital Simulator for Power and Energy Systems Research and Education

ECCS-0722493真实的时间数字仿真器是一个独特的硬件和软件集成，用于在仿真回路中使用外部硬件进行电力系统仿真。智力优势：将与模拟器进行的研究活动将推进科学和技术，使我们的学生掌握电力系统动态现象背后的物理。例如，真实的时间建模和仿真可以帮助识别快速电压崩溃的根本原因，并设计有效的对策以提高电力系统的可靠性。此外，该模拟器提供快速原型设计能力，用于开发可再生和分布式能源系统的新控制算法。该仪器将被用来作为一个平台，为本科生和研究生在电力系统建模和仿真，继电保护，电力电子和控制等领域的综合实践研究培训/教育更广泛的影响：该模拟器将补充正在进行的研究和教育活动的电力和能源系统在田纳西理工大学。模拟器将积极影响我们的研究和教育成果，并使其他几个当地组织受益。许多教职员工，学生和代表性不足的群体，包括妇女将有机会获得高科技国家的最先进的仪器。此外，模拟器将促进与田纳西州州立大学的教师和学生的良好合作，田纳西州州立大学是历史上黑人学院和大学的成员。 制定了有效的计划，如免费培训讲习班，以促进更广泛地使用模拟器。 从更广泛的意义上说，拟议的研究和培训活动将有助于电力系统的安全，并有利于我们的国家电网现代化议程后，最近几次重大停电。

ECCS-0722493The Real Time Digital Simulator is a unique integration of hardware and software for performing simulation of power systems with external hardware in the simulation loop. Intellectual Merit: The research activities to be conducted with the Simulator will advance science and technology and enable our students to grasp the physics behind power system dynamic phenomenon. For example, real time modeling and simulation can help identify the root causes of fast voltage collapse and design effective countermeasures for improving power system reliability. Additionally, the Simulator provides rapid prototyping capability for developing new control algorithms for renewable and distributed energy systems. This instrument will be used as a platform for integrated hands-on research training/education for undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of power system modeling and simulation, protective relaying, power electronics and controls, etc. Broader Impacts: The Simulator will complement on-going research and education activities for power and energy systems at Tennessee Technological University. The Simulator will positively impact our research and educational outcomes and benefit several other local organizations. Many faculty members, students and underrepresented groups including women will have access to the high-tech state-of-the-art instrument. Further, the Simulator will foster a good collaboration with faculty and students at Tennessee State University, a member of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Effective plans such as free training workshops are devised to facilitate broader accessibility of the Simulator. On a broader sense, the proposed research and training activities will contribute to the power system security and benefit our national agenda of power grid modernization in the wake of several recent major blackouts.