Power Systems and Electronics Research Laboratory (PSE) Bristol UK

 The Power Systems and Electronics Research Laboratory (PSE)  is one of the strongest Research Laboratory among the new Universities in the UK. The diverse multidisciplinary activity of the laboratory provides collaboration between specialists in academia and industry.

Laboratory members have many years of experience in the area of Power Systems, Artificial Neural Network, Control, Digital Signal Processing, Electrical Contacts/Switchgears, Electromagnetic and the application of Power Electronics and Microprocessors, which is recognised nationally and internationally. The laboratory also conducts research into alternative energy systems, transport and industrial plants.

The laboratory has collaboration with European Universities, Iranian Universities, Algerian Universities, South American Universities, Japanese Universities and a number of UK and German companies.

In recent years the laboratory has hosted two major International Power Engineering Conferences (2001 EEUG and 2004 UPEC). Laboratory members are actively involved in the review of IET, IEEE and many International related Journals as well as serving on British, Canadian, German and Japanese Editorial boards of International Journals and various Scientific Committees of related Conferences. In total, over 800 papers have been published among laboratory members in refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings.

To date the laboratory has received funds from EPSRC, The Leverhulme Trust, The British Council, EU, HEFCE and from a number of UK, German and Korean Companies.

The laboratory is equipped with a Electrical Contact Models, DSP and Microprocessor tools, Transmission lines and STATCOM Models. The laboratory also houses a number of electric motor/generator machine sets with industry standard variable speed drives, simulation of electric vehicles and wind turbines.

The laboratory possess ATPDraw, and PSCAD/EMTDC software for electrical transient simulation, ERACS for power systems modeling, ANSYS for Finite Element Analysis of Heat and Magnetic, MATLAB for Control, Power Systems, DSP, ANN/Fuzzy, and VISSIM for traffic flow simulation.