Training System of Smart Grid Technology for Power Transmission

The faculty of our university Umbetov E.S., head of Department “Management and Entrepreneurship in Engineering” and Utkin LA, Senior Lecturer at the Department “Power Supply and Renewable Energy Sources”, in November 2020, carried out commissioning and installation of the educational and laboratory complex “Training Systems of Smart Crid Technology for Power Transmission” manufactured by Festo Canada at the Atyrau Polytechnic College.

This smart grid technology training system combines a modular design approach with computer data acquisition and control. Its goal is to provide systematic training in smart grid technologies related to power transmission. The system includes a four-quadrant dynamometer, power supply and data acquisition and control interface, and two state-of-the-art USB peripherals that greatly expand the possibility of students’ training.

Associate Professor Umbetov E.S. read the course "AC transmission line" with video lectures. This course introduces to college teachers and students of the characteristics and behavior of high voltage AC transmission lines, and how to compensate the voltages on these lines using a switchable compensation shunt (SSC). This course covers many themes related to high voltage transmission lines such as voltage regulation characteristics, natural loading, corrected PI equivalent circuit, supply voltage curve, line length, and active power transmission.

Then the teachers and students of the college, under the guidance of Senior Lecturer of the Department “Power Supply and Renewable Energy Sources” Utkin L.A. continued to study the following three courses on smart grid technologies:

• Static Var compensator (SVC);

• Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM);

• High voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission systems.

These courses introduce students to the basics of SVC, STATCOM, and HVDC transmission systems. College teachers and students will learn that SVC and STATCOM are examples of Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS). They can be used in combination with high voltage DC transmission systems to significantly increase the controllability and power transmission capability of the grid. Therefore, they are important tools for the implementation of a smart grid system. These courses also allow students to experiment with real SVC, STATCOM and HVDC transmission systems implemented using power electronics modules.

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