Unified power engineering laboratory for electromechanical energy

Summary form only given. This paper introduces a unified power engineering laboratory capable of various experiments for power systems, power electronics and electromechanical energy conversion. It presents a flexible hardware setup, data acquisition (DAQ), and virtual instrumentation (VI), the base of our unified lab. Some features of virtual instrumentation are shown with real-time phasor diagrams, sequence component analysis, and spectral analysis of AC data. We describe the general design of a single lab setup, which can be used for power electronics and electromechanical energy conversion experiments independently. We also present an example of power system operations, which can be implemented by the interconnection of several lab stations.