Application of the PSAT, an Open Source Software, for Educational and Research Purposes

Author

Vanfretti, L. ; Milano, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY

fYear

2007

fDate

24-28 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

This paper describes the authors´ and users´ experience in the application of a free and open source software for teaching and research in power system analysis and modeling, namely power system analysis toolbox (PSAT). PSAT is currently used in several Universities for undergraduate courses, graduate courses and research. Selected experiences of the application of PSAT for educational and research purposes are discussed in this paper. PSAT has its own web forum, which provides support to students and researchers all around the world. The paper also discusses the contributions of PSAT to power engineering education based on the results of a survey on PSAT filled up by the members of the PSAT web forum.

Keywords

power engineering education; power system analysis computing; power system simulation; PSAT; Power System Analysis Toolbox; open source software; power engineering education; power system analysis; power system modeling; Application software; Education; Educational institutions; Mathematical model; Open source software; Power system analysis computing; Power system dynamics; Power system modeling; Power system reliability; Software systems; GNU Octave; Internet; Matlab; Power system analysis; open-source software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2007. IEEE

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

1932-5517

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1296-X

Electronic_ISBN

1932-5517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2007.385952

Filename

4275718