RE18 – Advanced Smart Grid Technology
The RE18 Advanced Smart Grid Technology system provides students with a self-contained modular system, allowing an in-depth understanding of the complex interactions between renewable energies, energy storage and consumers on a laboratory scale.
The system allows the construction of a controllable Smart Grid on a laboratory scale. Providing multiple pre-set scenarios but additionally allows for bespoke or user-created setups.
Description
The RE18 Advanced Smart Grid Technology system provides students with a self-contained modular system, allowing an in-depth understanding of the complex interactions between renewable energies, energy storage and consumers on a laboratory scale.
The system allows the construction of a controllable Smart Grid on a laboratory scale. Providing multiple pre-set scenarios but additionally allows for bespoke or user-created setups.
Contained in the system are multiple components for renewable energies such as wind and photovoltaics as well as energy stores such as lithium-iron-phosphate batteries / fuel cells that allow a large variety of fundamental experiments to be conducted in conjunction with smart grid experiments.
Technical Specifications
- 2 x Base unit Professional
- 2 x Smart meter
- 1 x Wind turbine module Pro
- 1 x Solar module 5.33V, 370mA
- 1 x Wind machine
- 1 x Motor module Pro
- 1 x Base for solar panel
- 2 x Power module
- 1 x Wind rotor set
- 2 x Light bulb module Pro
- 1 x Capacitor module Pro
- 1 x AV-module
- 1 x Battery module holder 1xAAA Pro
- 1 x LiFePo-battery AAA
- 1 x Fuel cell holder Pro
- 1 x MPP Tracker Pro
- 2 x Grid module Pro
- 1 x Diode module Pro
- 1 x Potentiometer module 110 Ohm Pro
- 1 x Bulb 120W, 12°
- 1 x Lamp housing
- 6 x Safety short-circuit plug, with mid socket
- 1 x Aluminium case
- 5 x Safety test lead, 25cm, red
- 4 x Safety test lead, 25cm, black
- 4 x Safety test lead, 50cm, red
- 4 x Safety test lead, 50cm, black
- 1 x Propeller
- 1 x Reversible fuel cell
- 1 x Azimuth angle scale
Features & Benefits
- Setup of a complete smart grid on a laboratory scale
- Investigating the influence of renewable energies on grid stability
- Additional fundamental experiments on wind, photovoltaics, fuel cells and energy storage
- Laboratory scale
- Modular design
- Supplied in a self contained aluminium case
- Includes in-depth manual and predefined experiments
Smart grid experiments:
- Daily power fluctuations of a photovoltaic (PV) power plant
- Daily power fluctuations of a wind power plant
- Energy supply of a building by conventional power plants
- Energy supply of a building by conventional and PV power plants
- Energy supply of a building by conventional and PV power plants with storage
- Voltage behaviour and grid stability in a radial distribution system
- Grid stability with PV power plants
- Grid stability with PV power plants depending on consumer load
- Grid stability with PV power plants depending on wire length
- Grid stability with PV power plants and smart transformer stations
- Grid stability with PV power plants and storages
- Grid integration of E-Mobility
- Conductor rope management
Fundamental experiments:
Photovoltaics
- IV-Characteristics of solar panels
- IV-Characteristics depending on illumination
- IV-Characteristics depending on temperature
- MPP-Tracking
Wind energy
- Turbine power dependent on blade shape and pitch angle
- Turbine power dependent on number of blades
- Turbine power dependent on wind direction
Fuel cell and electrolyzer
- Functionality of an electrolyzer
- IV-characteristics of an electrolyzer
- Functionality of a fuel cell
- IV-characteristics of a fuel cell
Storage technologies
- Charge and discharge characteristics of a capacitor
- Functionality and charge procedure of a LiFePo battery
- Operation of fuel cells and electrolysers
- Renewable Energies
- Electrical Engineering
- RE10: Advanced Photovoltaic Energy
- RE12: Advanced Wind Energy
- RE14: Advanced Fuel Cell Technology
- RE16: Advanced Thermal Energy
- RE24: Advanced Battery Technology
- Storage Temperature: -10°C to +70°C
- Operating temperature range: +10°C to +50°C
- Operating relative humidity range: 0 to 95%, non-condensing
Electrical supply: 110-230V AC 50-60Hz
- Level and stable work surface
PACKED AND CRATED SHIPPING SPECIFICATIONS
- Volume: 0.038m³
- Gross weigh: 10Kg
- Length: 0.640m
- Width: 0.165m
- Height: 0.370m
RE18: Advanced Smart Grid Technology
