RELab - virtual laboratory of the renewable energy

Author

Cotfas, D.T. ; Cotfas, P.A. ; Ursutiu, D. ; Samoila, C.

Author_Institution

DEC Dept., Transylvania Univ. of Brasov, Brasov, Romania

fYear

2013

fDate

6-8 Feb. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The paper presents a very useful, innovative, compact laboratory, which is simple and complex at the same time. This virtual laboratory covers an important part of the renewable energy: photovoltaic energy, wind energy and solar thermal energy. The SolarLab board and the educational platform NI ELVIS II are the “heart” of the RELab laboratory. The complex software developed in LabVIEW is also presented. ReLAB allows the realization of over thirty lab experiments.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; engineering education; laboratories; power engineering computing; renewable energy sources; solar cells; thermal energy storage; virtual instrumentation; wind power; LabVIEW; RELab; compact laboratory; educational platform NI ELVIS II; photovoltaic energy; renewable energy; solar thermal energy; virtual laboratory; wind energy; Blades; Laboratories; Photovoltaic systems; Renewable energy sources; Temperature measurement; Wind turbines; photovoltaic; renewable energy; solar thermal energy; virtual laboratory; wind;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV), 2013 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6345-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-6344-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/REV.2013.6502901

Filename

6502901