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.

Power_Generation_Sim.slx (41 kB)
Simulink file of our Simulation

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