College - Author 1
College of Engineering
Department - Author 1
Electrical Engineering Department
Degree Name - Author 1
BS in Electrical Engineering
College - Author 2
College of Engineering
Department - Author 2
Electrical Engineering Department
Degree - Author 2
BS in Electrical Engineering
College - Author 3
College of Engineering
Department - Author 3
Electrical Engineering Department
Degree - Author 3
BS in Electrical Engineering
Date
6-2020
Primary Advisor
Taufik, College of Engineering, Electrical Engineering Department
Abstract/Summary
This project aims to design a wind or hydro power generation simulator. The original scope of this project was to construct a physical simulation apparatus in which wind/water speed data is fed to a microcontroller that adjusts the control voltage of a motor drive. The spinning DC motor would generate power via a coupled generator whose power output would be a scaled down version of wind/hydroelectric generator power output given the same wind/water speed input. Due to Covid-19, the project was altered to be entirely virtual and was made through Simulink in MATLAB. The virtual simulator attempts to mimic physical system behavior by feeding a user input array, over a time span of 30 seconds, representing wind/water speeds, over a time span of 24 hours, into a programmable function block meant to mimic desired microcontroller behavior. The output of this block is fed to a second function block acting as the system’s motor drive which drives the pre-defined DC motor module. The connected generator module’s output is connected to a DC-DC converter block in order to simulate the system’s ability to power appliances with a constant voltage despite the fluctuating generator output.
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/eesp/477
Simulink file of our Simulation