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PQ & R Centre Capabilities
Profile
The Centre staff includes all the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications
power engineering academics plus additional research staff. The staff have built up a nationally
recognised expertise in research and training in power quality issues.
The strength of the Centre comes from its wide ranging expertise in both
the power system and customer load area, its strong contacts with industry
and its knowledge of international research efforts. The Centre is
equipped with an instrumentation and development laboratory including a 30kVA arbitrary waveform generator, as well as a
range of commercial and in-house developed computer software.
The Centre offers a consultancy service as well as continuing education courses. The Centre has expertise and experience
in the following areas: -
- Power Quality - standards, instrumentation, monitoring, analysis, reporting, improvement, equipment behaviour
- Harmonic Studies - modelling, analysis, mitigation, instrumentation
- Voltage Sags - modelling and analysis
- Transients - modelling and analysis
- Conducted EMI
- Distribution system reliability
Industrial Consultation
The Centre's expertise is made available to industry and to power utilities to provide expert advice
and consulting in the areas of
- Power quality problems
- Planning, performing (investigations and solutions) and reporting of power quality measurements
- Interpretation of standards
- Routine power quality monitoring
- Power quality data analysis and reports
- General power monitoring
- Equipment immunity testing
Simple telephone/email enquiries will be dealt with free of charge. More extensive investigations
will be charged at commercial rates.
The Centre has provided consultancy services to the following organisations
| Agility | Alinta | Australia Post |
| Aurora Energy | BHP Billiton | Boyne Smelters |
| Blue Circle Southern Cement | Bluescope Steel | Bradken |
| CHK Engineering | Country Energy | Energex |
| EnergyAustralia | Ergon | esaa |
| ETSA | Genesis Energy (NZ) | Incitec |
| Integral Energy | Metal Manufacturers | Powercor |
| Powerlink | Transend | TransGrid |
| Standards Australia | Telstra | SPI Ausnet (formerly T Squared) |
| Tycan Australia | Western Power | |
Contact Person on consulting/technical advice: Dr Vic Smith
Integral Energy Power Quality Centre
School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW 2522
Ph. +61 2 4221 4737
Fax. +61 2 4221 3236
Laboratory Equipment and Facilities
- California Instruments 30 kVA programmable arbitrary waveform generator.
To view details of the capabilities of this device see the flyer
- 100 kW, 3000rpm, 1000Nm 4-quadrant dynamic dynamometer
- dc to 200 kHz 3-phase harmonic analyser
- dc to 2.5kHz single-phase portable harmonic analyser
- 8 and 16 bit microcontroller development systems
- DSP development system
- Conducted EMI measuring equipment up to 64 A, 3 phase, near field E-H field probes.
- Low frequency magnetic field measuring equipment.
- 5 PM30 and 4 PolyloggerQ Power Quality Monitoring Instruments.
- 2 Hioki 3196 Power Quality Analyzers.
- 1 Dranetz PowerXplorer PX5 Power Quality Monitoring Instrument
- Various software packages such as PSCAD/EMTDC and Digsilent
Continuing Education
The Centre prepares courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing
education levels. Regular continuing education courses are delivered on the following topics: -
Quality of Electrical Supply
Electrical Drive
Systems
Power Quality from an
Energy Managers Perspective
Workshops on Australian and International
Standards are also available. Specially tailored courses
on various aspects of power engineering can be arranged upon request(minimum numbers apply).
The Centre specialises in developing inexpensive but powerful software simulation tools to accompany its courses.
For further information and enquiries see the training page or contact
the Power Quality Reliability Centre.
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