CONTROL ENGINEERING, PROVEN IN PRACTICE
CONTROLS AND ENERGY SYSTEMS - FROM REQUIREMENT TO DELIVERY
Porus Lab is an independent engineering lab and knowledge platform focused on microgrid dispatch, power plant control, grid code compliance, and systems engineering.
FROM ENGINEERING CONCEPTS TO WORKING SYSTEMS
We documents the process behind engineering solutions: defining requirements, building models, testing behavior, and sharing what was learned along the way.
THREE PILLARS
Microgrid Dispatch & Energy Management
Dispatch strategies and optimization for coordinating generation, storage and loads, including peak-demand management.
Power Plant Control & Grid Code Compliance
Plant-level control for renewable and hybrid plants, and how to demonstrate compliance with grid code requirements.
Systems Engineering & Safety Analysis
Requirements, architecture, SysML v2 modeling, DFMEA, traceability, verification and validation.
HOW THE WORK IS DONE?
Understand: define the problem, use cases, requirements and constraints.
Model & develop: analysis, simulation, control design, software and hardware.
Verify & share: document checks, limitations and results as evidence.
FEATURED WORK
Latest technical article
Why Predictive Algorithms Won’t Guarantee the Targeted Peak Demand in Behind-the-Meter Applications
A look at why prediction-based control can miss peak-demand targets in behind-the-meter systems.
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Open-source engineering tools
MATLAB power flow methods (Gauss-Seidel, Newton-Raphson, Decoupled and Fast Decoupled), power converter magnetics design code, and a control systems lab manual.
Hardware series
Open PCB designs for power electronics and control experiments: the PWM interface board, the voltage and current sensor board, and the sensor interface board.
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OUR APPROACH
Porus Lab shares what has been designed, separates what has been simulated from what has been tested, and publishes evidence once validation is complete.
CLOSING CALL TO ACTION
Working on a microgrid, PPC or grid code problem?
Share the use case, or send feedback on any project through its GitHub repository.
