Power Quality Improvement at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a major hospital and medical research facility in Toronto, is fed from a portion of the electrical grid that is subject to numerous short power dips. These dips can cause significant issues within the hospital. A newly installed generator was found to not only produce electrical power but also help support the incoming voltage during those dips and mitigate some of the adverse effects. Research is required to gather data from specific electrical points of Sunnybrook’s power distribution system and analyse that data to create a software model of the generator’s control system. This model can then be used to create operating scenarios that optimize the generator’s ability to minimize those adverse effects and prepare for physical tests to confirm the projections.

Faculty Supervisor:

Vijay Sood;Langis Roy

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Partner:

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Clean Technology; Energy and Utilities; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

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