Research Center for Electrical Machines and Drives

Resources

There are 6 laboratories in the Department: • Classical Electrical Machines Laboratory, Room 7 (192 m² ); • Management and marketing, Room 3 (24 m²), Baritiu street; • Electromechanical Systems Laboratory, Room 6 (87 m²) ; • Small Motors Laboratory, Room 6a (60 m²); • Testing to vibrations and special tests, Room 8a (24 m²); • CAD1 Laboratory, Room 9a (42 m²); • CAD2 Laboratory, Room 4 (48 m²); • Research lab (library) for Ph.D. students Room 7a (30 m²).
Equipement: 1. Electrical machines in 0.01 – 5 kW power range: • squirrel cage rotor induction machine • wounded rotor induction machines • two-phase and mono-phase induction machines • salient poles synchronous machines • round rotor synchronous machines • separately excited dc machines • series excited dc machine • compound excited dc machines • permanent magnets synchronous machines • variable reluctance machines • switched reluctance machines SRM • electronic commutated synchronous machines • stepper motors • dc servomotors • claw-poles generators t• ri-phase autotransformers • mono-phase autotransformers • brushless dc motors l• inear motors
2. Testing equipment • Power sources: • Three-phase AC mains of 380/220 V, 400 KVA, 50 Hz • Variable three-phase AC source of 4-600 V, 50 Hz • DC generators of 40-400 V (variable output), 110 V, 220 V • Three-phase synchronous generator of 14 kW, 380/220 V, 50 Hz • Full commanded rectifiers of 0-220 V, 20 A. • Programmable source HM 7044 • Supply source DR -45-24 • Functions generator Hameg – HM 8131 • Loads • Electromagnetic brakes:1,5 kW, 3 kW • Resistive loads 3 kW • Variable capacitive loads 2 kVar • Variable inductive loads 2 kVar • Starting resistive loads of various types • Different variable resistive loads • Testing to vibrations system
3. Frequency converters: • MICROMASTER Integrated MI220/3, 2.2 KW (Siemens) • ACS600 – with Direct Torque Control (ABB Industry Oy) • MICROMASTER (Siemens) • SIMOVERT MC (Siemens) • Rectifier: SIMOREG DC Master for 4 quadrant operation (Siemens) • Frequency converter Simovert MC 10 ,2A • ACS 600 with DTC (ABB Ind. Oy) • Rectifier LZ 000000102532 • intelligent inverter 1kw, PWR, Mod. DM 30021 • IGBT 3 M-50GB -123 inverter
4. Measuring equipments: • Torque transducer unit (Dr. Steiger Mohilo & Co. GmbH) • Torque transducer ASEA • Incremental position transducer (Siemens) • Accelerometer 625B01 • Condensor microphone 377A40 with pre-amplifier 426A30 • Data acquisition Systems (National Instruments Inc.) • Digital oscilloscope Tektronix TD270 • Digital oscilloscope HM 303 with Developers Toolkit Laab • Digital oscilloscope OX 7104CK • Digital oscilloscope MTX 3252-c • Digital oscilloscope TDS 1001 B • Handy Power Quality Analyzer Chauvin Arnoux CA8332 • Precision digital TRMS multimeter Metrawatt METRAHIT29s (with the followinf accesories: 2 mains power pack, 2 clip-on measuring instruments , 2 thermal sensors for surface and immersion measurements) • Digital M9502 multimeter, 7 functions • Encoders • Over 100 de classical analogue measuring instruments (ammeters, voltmeters, wattmeters, frequency meters etc.) • Over 20 new high performance digital measuring instruments. • Noises and vibrations measuring module
5. Development and control equipment: •Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs): SIMATIC S7-200, LOGO! (Siemens), S7-300 with extensions, Profibus interface, accessories, etc. •dSPACE ACE Kit with DS1103 PowerPC GX and dSPACE Software •FieldPoint real-time distributed industrial control systems (National Instruments) Wireless industrial communication systems Pocket PC Sharp Zaurus SL500/Linux, with accessories •Motion Control Kit MCK2407 Technosoft based on TMS320F2407 processor •EMS-WX 35E (Ematron) system for SRM •Electronic module for signal conditioning •4-Axis Stepper/Servo Controller for PCI PCI-7344 (National Instruments) •Development module DS PIC DEM-DM 300020 •Ac.Dv 164005 device •Usb 6008 Low-Cost Multifunctional device •Usb 6008 Student Kit device •Industrial communications system Pocket PC Sharp Zaurus SL500, with accessories
6. Computers: • Computer network 1 (CAD 1) composed of: • server (having 2 Pentium II-350 processors, 20 + 6.4 GB HDD, 128 MB RAM, CD 48 X), connected to the INTERNET • 7 workstations (with Pentium II-350 processors, 4.3 GB HDD, 64 MB RAM) • 3 workstations (with INTEL CELERON-600 processors, 64 MB SDRAM, 20 GB Seagate HDD) • Computer network 2 (CAD 2) composed of: • server (Pentium AGER 3.6 GHz processor; 1024 GB HDD, 512 MB RAM,) connected to the INTERNET • 6 workstations (having Pentium 3.8 GHz processors, 250 GB , 512 MB RAM) • ScanJet 5300C scanner • HP LaserJet 1100 laser printer • 12 Notebooks (laptops): COMPAQ Presario 2715EA, Presario 1800 and ASUS L3500TP 9, AGER tip AS 5920; Fujitsu-Siemens; Compaq Prresario 2701 EA; Athlon SCS AMD 900-256 SC 20 GB; ASUS L3500 TP; Athlon 64/3000; Fujitsu-Siemens PRO V 3505-1; Hewlett-Packard. • 13 different computers (Pentium P4 1,4 GHz processors) all of them connected to the INTERNET . • 4 computers (Pentium P4) in each laboratory.
7. Peripherals: •Printers: HP LaserJet 1100, HP InkJet 690, CANON S 200, Canon LBP 1120 , Canon IP 2200, Canon HO 1000usb, Canon LBP 1120 Usb; Canon N 640P; •Scanner: ScanJet 6200C; ScanJet 5300C, Canon N 640P, HP Scanjet 4370. •Multi-functionals: Hp 4100 MFP; Samsung SCX 4217F, Canon.3220. •Fax: Canon Fax- B 820, •Multimedia projectors: MP 7640 , ML 7460 , Toshiba TDP S80, •Retroprojectors.
8. Software: • MATLAB Suite 6.0 ( MATLAB + SIMULINK + Symbolic Math Toolbox ) for 5 seats for general numeric and symbolic computations and for simulating dynamic systems. • MagNet 5.3 for single user for general electromagnetic field computations . • MagNet v6 for 8 seats (with 2D/axisymmetric magnetostatic solver, 2D/axisymmetric time-harmonic solver, 2D/axisymmetric transient + motion solver, scripting form and parameterisation facilities) for general electromagnetic field computations. • LabVIEW 6i , general purpose data acquisition and virtual instrumentation software. • Flux2D & Flux3D (v10.1.2) , 2 permanent licenses with the following modules: Environement, Magnetostatic, Steady AC Magnetic, Transient Magnetic, Coupling with Circuit Equations, Rotating Motion, Translating Motion, Steady State Thermal, Transient Thermal, Steady AC magnetic coupled to Transient Thermal, Skew, Iron Losses, Flux to Simulink link (for 2D), respectively Environement, Magnetostatic, Steady AC magnetic, Transient Magnetic, Coupling with Circuit Equations, Rotating Motion, Translating Motion, Iron Losses (for 3D). • JMAG 2D/3D, software for field analysis. • EPLAN 5.30, general purpose electrical engineering CAD program package (8 professional licenses + 2 SC1 licenses). • ENGINEERING BASE 3.0, general purpose electrical engineering CAD program package (6 licenses). • SIMPLORER 4.2 power electronics modelling and simulation (8 licenses). • STEP7-MicroWin 3.0 and LOGO! software for the Micro S7-200 and Micro S7-300 PLCs.