FURNAS CONTROLS/ENERGY CONVERSION LABORATORY
Laboratory Description:
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| Furnas Laboratory PLC Station |
Furnas Laboratory Power Station |
This laboratory is named in honor of Carl
Furnas, a 1906 graduate of Purdue University, who founded the Furnas Controls
Company, which provided an endowment in his honor for the continual operation of
the lab.
The Furnas Controls/Energy Conversion Laboratory is an 1150 ft2
laboratory, which includes 10 student workstations used to support courses in
power, rotating machines and programmable controllers. Students use the
Hampden consoles and related equipment to study rotating machinery and power
systems. Industrial controllers are used in conjunction with the
Purdue-designed Industrial Process Control Learning System to simulate
industrial control systems. High-level programming language is used to
control the PLC-5’s and the ARCO data acquisition systems. All of the test
equipment in the Furnace Laboratory is HPIB compatible and interconnected for
use in EET 488, Automated Test Instrumentation.
Courses in the Furnas Controls/Energy Conversion
Laboratory
| EET 231 Electrical Power and Controls |
EET 302 Introduction to Control Systems |
| EET 331 Generation and Transmission of Electrical
Power |
EET 372 Process Control |
| EET 381 Electrical Distribution Systems |
EET 488 Automated Test Instrumentation |
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EET 499A Automotive
Electronics |
Student workstation equipment
| Dell Pentium-based PC |
Industrial Process Control Learning System |
| Hampden Consoles with fractional hp motors, three-phase RLC
load units, digital tachometers, |
Transmission line simulators, phase-angle meters,
phase-shifting transformers |
| Allen-Bradley Programmable Controllers |
HP E3631A Power Supplies |
| Fluke 41 Harmonic Analysis Meters |
HP 33120A Function Generators/Arbitrary Waveform
Generator |
| Fluke PM 3370B Digital Oscilloscopes |
HP 34401A Multimeters |
Student workstation software
| MS Office Pro (Word, Excel, etc.) |
Borland C++ |
| MS QuickBASIC |
Power World (power flow) |
| Flukeview and Flukeview 41 |
Power Tools (Dapper, Captor, Afault) |
| Rockwell Software Logic 5 and Linx |
EZ Power |
| Matlab/Simulink |
Genisis |
Network Resources:
Student PC’s and two HP printers are networked to
each other, the Allen-Bradley data highway, and to the internet. |
