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Power Systems Laboratory

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Software Required

• MATLAB/Simulink^®: www.mathworks.com.

• PowerWorld^®:

  • To download the free educational version, go to http://www.powerworld.com/downloads/demosoftware.asp.
  • Click on PowerWorld Simulator.
  • Follow on-screen instructions to download and install.

• PSCAD^®:

• To download the free educational version, go to the Free Downloads page on the Manitoba HVDC Research Centre Inc. at https://pscad.com/products/pscad/free_downloads/.
• Download PSCAD^® Trial License (Student Edition) installer which includes help documentation and example cases.
• Also download the GNU Fortran compiler from the same page which is required to run PSCAD^®.
• If you have any issues installing this on a 64 Bit Windows PC, check these solutions.

Video Instructions

1. Installation of PowerWorld and PSCAD-EMTDC

2. Familiarization with using PSCAD-EMTDC

3. Obtaining Parameters of Transmission Line using PSCAD/EMTDC

4. Simulating a Transmission Line in a Power System using PSCAD/EMTDC

5. Power Flow using PowerWorld

6. Power Flow using MATLAB

7. Including Off-Nominal Turns-Ratio and Phase-Shifting Transformers in Power Flow using PowerWorld

8. Including an HVDC Transmission Line for Power Flow Calculations in PowerWorld

9. Modeling of Thyristor Converters in PSCAD-EMTDC

10. Power Quality Calculations using PSCAD-EMTDC

11. Modeling of Synchronous Generators using PSCAD-EMTDC

12. Voltage Regulation by Thyristor Controlled Reactors (TCR) using PSCAD-EMTDC

13. Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitors (TCSC) using PSCAD-EMTDC (Temporarily unavailable - will be restored as soon as possible. We regret the inconvinience caused.)

14. Transient Stability using MATLAB

15. AGC using Simulink

16. Transmission Line Short Circuit Faults using PowerWorld

17. Tripping of Transmission Lines due to Overloads using PowerWorld

18. Switching Over-Voltages and Modeling of Surge Arresters using PSCAD/EMTDC

Lab Manual

• Power Systems Lab Manual (608 kB PDF)

Simulation Files

• Simulation Files (11MB ZIP)