About the laboratory
Field of activity
- Basic internships for the EGT and HA degree programmes
- Practical courses on electrical lines and networks
Test benches and experiments on electrical engineering
- Exercises in connection technology - soldering practical course
- Direct current circuits
- Basic electrical quantities, basic circuits and measurement and representation of basic electrical quantities
- Kirchhoff's rules, voltage and current divider
- Networks, equivalent basic circuits and bridge circuits
- Direct current machines in motor or generator operationb
- Electricity storage
- Electric and magnetic fields
- Alternating current technology
- Kirchhoff rules, voltage and current dividers
- Networks, equivalent basic circuits and bridge circuits
- Oscillating circuits
- Active, reactive and apparent power
- Neutral point and harmonics
- Network parameters and network quality
- AC and three-phase machines in motor or generator operation
Test benches and experiments on 'Electrical lines and grids'
- Power transmission in the different horizontal network levels
- Transformers
- Network analysis and network parameters
- Load profile measurement, analysis and optimisation
- Protection technology
- Network calculation with Power Factory (Digsilent)
Equipment
Measurement Equipment
- Workstations for connection technology
- Practical set-ups and measurement technology for direct current and alternating current theory
- Practical set-ups and measuring equipment for electrical power transmission (Lucas-Nülle and LD Didactic)
- Cutaway models and set-ups for transformers, DC and AC motors (LD Didactic)
- Indoor and outdoor power recorders from Chauvin Arnoux for load flow analysis to optimise energy efficiency
- Network calculation programs from Siemens and Digsilen
- Thermographic cameras from Flir and Infratec
- Two professional drones from DJI for the analysis of power plants and systems
Projects
Current research projects
- Reactive power behaviour of supply networks in current consumer scenarios and analyses of complementary network management
- Supply networks with different, sustainable feed-in shares
- Investigation of footprints of typical consumers in the network parameters
- Network considerations for charging processes for electromobility
- Now-casting for households and defined regions with volatile feed-in
- CO2-neutral sector-coupled quarters