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Centers, Groups, and Laboratories Conducting Research in Power
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See Also:
Power Overview
Power News
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Faculty Members Conducting Research in Power
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Center for Power Engineering
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Research ranges from power system issues to equipment diagnosis and monitoring. Power system efforts include
- developing a comprehensive power system information network architecture;
- studies regarding the use of SMES in stabilizing power system oscillations;
- evaluating hidden failures in protection systems and their impact on wide-area disturbances;
- developing software that helps utilities design and analyze their distribution systems.
The Center is also developing IT and photonic sensor tools for fault monitoring and prediction.
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Center for Energy and the Global Environment (CEAGE website)
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Researcher works on solar energy analysis in the CEAGE lab.
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The Center for Energy and Global Environment (CEAGE) focuses on technologies and systems for environmentally compatible methods of power generation for supporting the critical infrastructure including the necessary manpower training. Our current research projects are examining the internet infrastructure for greater sustainability and affordability, alternative sources for power for distributed applications, and an online digital library for engineering and technology.
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Power IT Lab (website)
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The Power IT Lab prepares graduate and undergraduate students for leadership roles in IT applications in Power Engineering. Lab programs address the development and implementation of effective computer and network strategies that address new challenges in the de-regulated power industry. The lab's primary efforts concentrate on Internet and IT applications in power engineering. Past and on-going research includes a LAN-based Load Shedding Control System, WAN-based SCADA Real Time Information Display Systems, On-Line Power Transformer Diagnosis, and Internet based GPS time synchronized wide area frequency acquisition and monitoring network (FNET).
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Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES website)
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A DC/DC PWM resonant converter for applications that require high power density, low-weight, and volume.
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CPES, a consortium of 5 universities and more than 80 industry partners is one of the nation's few NSF Engineering Research Centers. Current research, with a total annual budget of more than $10 million, is aimed at developing an integrated system approach via integrated power electronics modules (IPEMs). Program elements include advanced power semiconductor devices, power ICs, integrated packaging, control and sensor integration, IPEM synthesis, integrated design methodologies, distributed power systems and motor drives for a wide range of applications. |
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