Virginia Tech
ECE Department
340 Whittemore Hall
Telephone: (540) 231 2045
Fax: (540) 231 4303
Email address: virgilio@vt.edu
Instrumentation, Protection, Oscillations
Unlisted key words: Phasor Measurement
Research focus:
· Implementation, development, and application of wide area measurement devices.
· Detection and tracking of electromechanical oscillation in power systems.
· Local frequency mesurement and its application and aproximation for system frequency monitoring.
· Development and implementation of adaptive relays.
Power Systems Laboratory: This laboratory has various
measurement instruments for data acquisition and control. These include high
performance digital scopes, HP network analyzer, arbitrary waveform generators,
GPS clock, phasor measurement units, power quality and harmonic measurement
instruments and a modern power systems analog transient simulator. In addition
the laboratory has its own local area network with three servers and ten
workstations.
The Protection Laboratory: This research and teaching laboratory has four
benches equiped with single phase and three phase power supplies, four
multi-purpose digital meters a high precision digital oscilloscope. In addition
each bench has transformers, current shunts, transmission line simulators, and
digital relays from ABB, Swichtzer, GE and other manufacturers, in addition to
four sets of DOUBLE relaying testing equipment.