Smart Grid

Transfer matrix for PCE tracing

Two files are provided. In the first one, there are the power signals obtained from the current and voltage measurements made with our own acquisition system (with a sampling frequency of 5 kHz). They correspond to the switching on and off of 12 home electrical appliances randomly switched on and off during 1 hour by using relay modules and resulting in 1200 events.

In the second file, the time instants of these events are all reported.

This dataset contains heavy-machinery data from the Brazilian industrial sector. The data was collected in a poultry feed factory located  in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Its process can be summarized to creating pellets of ration for poultry from corn or soybeans and added nutrients. The factory produces at fullscale over the entire year, thus it has well-behaved usage patterns at any time. It operates from Mondays through Fridays (and occasionally on Saturdays, in case production is below the monthly target) on a daily three-turn shift from 10:00 PM to 05:00 PM.

Research on Optimizing the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources into the Electrical Power Systems

In this project one model the photovoltaic and wind power sources in order to analyze how to optimally integrate them in the electrical power systems. Integration requirements like transient regimes associated with fault occurrence, identification of the electrical power systems responsible for disturbances, and optimization of the integration are focus points of the research.