Students:
- Jason Boxer,
- Vincent Carbone,
Advisor: A. Deese
It can be problematic to test or add components to large power systems based on their size and immobility. This team’s goal is to design a device that is capable of simulating the presence of a load from a remote location. The scaled remote load emulator allows for smaller pieces of power laboratory systems to be interconnected with larger systems by emulating the behavior of the larger system. Specifically we approach this by developing hardware that measures the equivalent impedance of a nonlinear load in real-time at location A. This hardware then transmits the information over a wireless network from location A to B and then emulates this load by way of time-varying equivalent impedance at location B. Based on the costs associated with large power systems, our plan is to take a proof of concept approach to this project.