Remote Labs for Electrical Power Transmission Lines Simulation Unit

Electrical Power Transmission Lines are used to transferElectrical Energy from the Generating site such as power plant to and Electric Substation. The interconnected lines that facilitate this are known as Transmission Network. These transmission lines are different from that of the high voltage substations to the consumers, which is referred to as distribution network. Study of transmission lines is an important topic in the courses offered under Electrical Engineering program. This includes understanding of certain fundamental concepts related to Electrical Power Transmission Lines such as Ferranti effect, ABCD parameters and their analysis, Transmission lines efficiency and calculation of losses, Modelling of Transmission lines (T and Pi sections), Surge Impedance loading and so on. Typically, Transmission Line Simulators are used to study the concepts mentioned above. Students perform experiments on these Transmission Lines Simulators that represent the equivalent model of the real Electrical Power Transmission Lines running for several kilometres of distances are the experimentation platforms on which several aspects of Transmission lines are studied. In the context of several Engineering Institutions, simulators such as these are a scarce resource and typically a given institution would have at most 1 such setup. This is because of the cost and size of these simulators.