Experiment 1

INTODUCTION TO SIMPOWER
SYSTEMS AND STUDY OF POWER
ON A SINGLE PHASE NETWORK

Authors Name Muhammad Bilal Nadeem

Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Islamabad, Pakistan
bsee1630@pieas.edu.pk

Abstract—In this document we have discussed about the Then the instantaneous power supplied to the load will be
SIMPOWER SYSTEM library of MATLAB. How to make the given as
circuit and simulate them on MATLAB? How to see the graphs of
the input to oscilloscope? And we get familiar with the
environment of MATLAB. We have also done some calculations
After applying trigonometric identities, we get the
and found the results about the reactive power and real power.
following relation.
Keywords—MATLAB; SIMPOWER; library; real power;
power : factor (key words)
Where
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1)
In this paper we shall discuss about how to deal with
MATLAB simulation by using SIMULINK. SIMULINK is
actually a simulation based software, which provides you
access to simulate the physical phenomena through the graphic The equivalent circuit in MATLAB will look like as shown
user interface. Actually behind these models of gui interface, in figure 2
there are complex calculations are going on, and using the
results of these calculations it gives the output.
In MATLAB there are some modules related to power
system. We will discuss here about the SIMPOWER Library of
MATLAB SIMULINK and we also develop a single phase
circuit to show the impact on power factor by its load voltage
and current.
Consider a single phase voltage source supplying power to
a load.

Figure 2: Circuit Diagram for single phase load

II. PROCEDURE
Open new model in Simulink
Open SIMPOWERSYSTEMS library from SIMULINK
browser
Simcap -> SimPowerSystmes -> Specialized Technology
-> Fundamental Blocks

Figure 1: the basic circuit

Add powergui to your model.
Open Electrical Sources and voltage sources and add AC
Voltage Source to your
model.

Open Elements and add Series RLC load and Ground to your In scope, go to settings -> general and change number of
model. axes to 3.
Go to history and uncheck “ Limit data to last:”
Run the simulation for one second.

Open Measurements and add Current and Voltage Double click powergui and go to “tools -> steady state” and
measurement to your model. observe the value of
current and voltage.
Observe the shape of current, voltage and power from scope.

III. OBSERVATIONS & RESULTS

We performed the experiment and finished our tasks. The
following are our results.
Task 1 I solved it manually by using the tan-1 of reactive
Now go to library Simulink -> Commonly Used Blocks. and real power. This can seen as
Add Product block and Scope to your model.
Now connect the circuit as shown pervious page.
Set RLC load as shown in figure below.

In MATLAB I also found the same result through steady

state option in powergui module. This result is shown in fig 3.

Set the AC voltage source according to figure

given below.

Figure 3: value of voltage and currents

Task 2 In this task we will find the values of the resistive

and inductive load by finding the total impedance.
 Hence
R= 478 cos (11.30)
R=468.44 Ω
And
X=478 sin (11.3)
X=93.21 Ω Figure 5: the value of voltage and current

Task 3 In this task we will change the load such that the And the scope output is shown in following figure
impedance angle becomes -500. To do this I have assumed that
the total apparent power remains the same. So total apparent
power will be 101.98VA and by using it we will we can find
the values of the load.
Apparent power = 101.98<-11.3
Apparent power=101.98<-50
Real power = 101.98 cos(-50) = 65.55W
Reactive power = 101.98 sin(-50) =78.12VAR
I found these results and the when I set these values to the
load in the simulation I found the following results. Figure 6: Scope output

Task 5 the maximum point for which the power is sinusoid

can’t be achieved. Because as θ approaches to 900 the system
response becomes in infinite. The result is shown in the
following figure.

Figure 4: the value of voltage and current

Task 4 In this task we have to set the lagging power factor

of 0.8. We have done this by using following calculations.
Cos(θ) = -0.8
Θ = -36.8690
Apparent power=101.98<-36.8690
Real power = 101.98 cos(-36.8690) = 81.59 W
Reactive power = 101.98 sin(-36.8690) =61.172 VAR Figure 7: Power became in finite due to zero power factor.

And we found the following result.

IV. DICUSSION
In this lab we have come across very impressive results. We
now know the importance of power factor. All of the apparent
power can be converted to real power. This is done by using
capacitor when there is an inductive load and vice versa. If the
apparent power decreases then the losses in the line decreases, V. CONCLUSION
the transformer required is of low rating and also the generator
In this lab we have understood about the SIMPOWER
required is of low rating. This saves a huge amount of money.
SYSTEM library of MATLAB. We made the circuit and
So it is always preferred to have improved power factor.
simulate it on MATLAB. We saw the graphs of the input to
oscilloscope. And we get familiar with the environment of
MATLAB. We have also done some calculations and found
the results which shown the importance of power factor.