Welcome to Power Systems engineering lab facilities at king Abdul-Aziz University (KAU) in Electrical and Computer Engineering department.

  The Power systems lab is located on the ground floor in Engineering building A40 in rooms (L4C04, L4C04-B, L4C05, and L4C05-B)

  This laboratory is designed to study various components, devices and circuits used in power generation, transmission and protection. The lab facilitates the familiarization of students with transmission lines’ sampling, testing, protection, electric related physical phenomenal, and PC hardware and software measuring tools. Equipment includes digital AC/DC fixed and variable power sources, Transmission line modules, various loads, different digital and analog (Power-Voltage–Current) measuring equipment. The lab is adequate for instruction and design projects.

  The lab is divided into three parts as follow:

•     Power Systems trainers stations.
•     Power Electronics trainer station.
•     Power Systems Protection station.

The Power Systems Engineering Lab Facilities serve the core course in undergraduate degree in power systems engineering degree. Also it serves the senior design projects for power systems major students, ECE major students, and other engineering departments that has a power systems, power electronics, and power protection application and needed a facility to run experiments and get support on their senior design project.

The core courses that the Power Systems Engineering Lab serve as follows:

1. 1- Power systems engineering (EE351)

     The Power systems lab serve Power systems course by performing experiments on different topics covered in the course such as:

   1.   1- Perform experiment on phase sequence detection and representation.
   2.   2- Perform experiment on active power and reactive power.
   3.   3- Perform experiment on the effects of load alteration on power and reactive power.
   4.   4- Perform experiment on power flow and voltage regulation and their effect on single line transmission line.



2. 2- Power electronics (EE442)

     The power systems lab serves power electronics course by performing experiments on different topics covered in the course such as:

   1.   1- Perform experiment on rectifiers' technology.
   2.   2- Perform experiment on single phase, half wave, uncontrolled rectifiers.
   3.   3- Perform experiment on single phase, full wave, controlled rectifiers.
   4.   4- Perform experiment on three phase, half wave, controlled rectifiers.



3. 3- Protection systems and switchgears (EE454)

     The power systems lab serve protection course by performing experiments on different topics covered in the course such as:

   1.   1- Perform experiment on line to line, line to earth faults.
   2.   2- Perform experiment on distance high voltage protection.
   3.   3- Perform experiment on overcurrent high voltage protection.
   4.   4- Perform experiment on industrial protection devices.