How it works?

The cavitation problem in hydraulic turbines is a well known problem produced by bubbles of vapour when the pressure of the liquid is lower than the vapour pressure. This produces erosion in the moving part of the turbines runner and shaft.

We have all tossed a spinning top or spun a coin on its edge, checking that it spins and spins while maintaining the balance all the time. These two actions are a practical example of the gyroscopic effect and how it forms part of our daily life in a natural way.

Due to the growing research about industrial application materials, we are seeing increasingly complex techniques and test procedures in industries such as automotive, infrastructures, and manufacturing. For that reason, technicians and engineers need an up-to-date and adapted technical training that can help them understand the fundamentals on which those techniques are based.

Training new generations in the field of process control engineering, both to study its principles and to identify the latest techniques and technologies applied at the industrial level. Developing three modular systems to study metering systems and control algorithms, the tuning and testing of industrial controllers by the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation, and the analysis of real systems, such as industrial process control plants,...

Developing a set of open libraries and a variety of practical exercises applied to modular systems using the LabVIEW graphical programming language to study the processes described by systems such as cooling towers, chemical reactors, steam turbines, hydrology, and more.

Training new generations in the latest technologies relating to Smart Grids, Power Generation Systems and Electrical Protections in High Voltage Grids (Picture 1), Renowable Energies, Electrical Machines, Electromechanical Systems, Industrial Electrical Systems and Home Automation Systems