EDS® Energy CubeStudying full-scale renewable energies

Making renewable energies part of your educational facility

Concept:

Technicians and engineers with qualifications in renewable ener-gies and energy management are needed in the public and industrial sector. Consequently, these topics have been estab-lished in curricula of a variety of educational facilities.

Festo Didactic offers an opti-mized solution – the EDS® Energy Cube. Full-scale solar and wind energy generation are inte-grated into a well-conceived stand-alone system based on a robust container. Integrating renewable energies into your educational facility has never been easier.

Advantages:

• Worldwide and safe shipping in standard ISO container

• Fast installation and start-up – no fundament required

• Reliable and resistant construction for durable use

• Remote monitoring and control of all relevant signals

• Independent and stand-alone energy supply with integrated storage system

• Optimized for educational and research facilities through integrated measurement and control equipment

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Studying energy during generation

The system comprises industrial components of the latest tech-nology:• photovoltaic (PV) modules• horizontal axis wind turbine

(HAWT)• valve-regulated lead-acid

batteries (VRLA)• inverters, controllers, safety

facilities

Both energy supply by the sources and the consumption and storage processes are con-tinuously measured and the data can be accessed in real time.

Signals of high quality sensors for wind speed, solar radiation and environmental conditions supplement the supervisory con-trol and data acquisition system (SCADA) and form the basis for deeper analyses.

Multiple learning scenarios

The SCADA data of the EDS® Energy Cube can easily be visu-alized by most devices as well as exported to standard formats.

Multiple learning and research opportunities are opened:• analysis of wind and solar

energy supply• tracking of daily, weekly and

yearly power generation• analysis of PV module

characteristics• acquisition of wind turbine

power curves• study of operating conditions

and control mechanisms

Festo Didactic also offers a con-nection to a comfortable indoor workstation for control, analysis and live consumption of the out-door generated electrical energy.

Systems thinkingOn a higher level, the study of systems behavior is enabled, like• storage management for

fluctuating energy supply and demand

• decentralized energy supply• self consumption and

autarky• intelligent consumption

(demand side management)• the integration of E-Mobility.

This supports interdisciplinary thinking and the engineering skills from the system point of view (i.e. systems engineering).

Current research topics in the growing field of energy manage-ment are addressable. For instance, the EDS® Green Factory – a learning factory for energy efficient production –can be connected to the Energy Cube resulting in a multilevel learning environment for energy and industrial production.

In cooperation with:

SaEnergy Systems GmbHFriedrichstrasse 9510117 Berlininfo@SaEnergy-Systems.comwww.SaEnergy-Systems.com

Festo Didactic GmbH & Co. KG

Rechbergstraße 373770 Denkendorf Germanydid@de.festo.comwww.festo-didactic.com

EDS® Energy CubeStudying full-scale renewable energies

EDS® Energy Cube

Indoor

Workstationwith power outlets and PC

EDS® Green Factorywith power consumersand energy management

PCs or tabletsfor control and visualization

Outdoor

AC power

Contol and monitoring signals

AC power

Contol and monitoring signals

Contol and monitoring signals

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