New platform for experimental education in electrical generation based on wind energy systems
- Autores: C. Veganzones, D. Ramírez, F. Blazquez, M. Blanco, S. Martinez, Javier Rodríguez Falces, C. Platero, J. A. Sanchez, N. Herrero
- Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 25, no. Extra 4, 2009, págs. 841-848
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In this paper, the development of a physical platform and the description of a specific methodology to be employed for experimental teaching in wind energy electrical generation in the `Electrical Generation with Renewable Energy Sources' course, within the Electrical Engineering educational program at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, is presented. The developed platform has a reduced-size wind turbine to which some different types of scaled-size electrical generation systems can be coupled. The instructors can easily configure the specific structure of this platform for each laboratory session. A regulated electric fan is employed to generate and control the speed of the wind that is incident on the wind rotor. Students can configure the session specifications and are able to control the execution of each experiment, as well as to analyze the results in a comfortable way using user-friendly interface software. This paper also describes, as a case study, the application of the proposed methodology in one of the laboratory sessions.
