MSU-ZELRI Research Center for Power Electronics Systems

Located in the MBI Building on 3900 Collins Road in Lansing, Michigan, the MSU Research Center for Power Electronics focuses on advanced R&D on power conversion technology and motor control for renewable energy, utility and transportation applications. The lab consists of a low-voltage (three-phase 480 V) lab and a medium-voltage (three-phase 6,000 V) lab for conducting research, development, and testing of power converters/inverters and motor drives from a fraction of kVA to ten MVA.  We have been working with government laboratories, industry, and other universities on many projects from small power converters with power less than 1 kW to multilevel inverters up to mega watts and motor drives. Major pieces of equipment and software packages in the MSU Research Center for Power Electronics are:

• Surface mount solder station
• 240 V and 480 V ac and 600 V dc power supplies
• Three 10 kVA and one 100 kVA variacs and load banks
• Five 500 Mhz/1 Ghz sampling digital color oscilloscopes
• Four 100 A and 500 A 20MHz current probes and amplifiers
• Two digital power meters
• One 50 kW dyno setup and motor/controller setups
• Digital signall processor (DSP) development tool kits of TI's F240xx
• Development tool kits of Xilinx FPGA/CPLDs
• Orcad schematics/PCB layout package
• Saber (for power electronics circuit, motor, mechanical/thermal system simulation)
• Pspice
• Matlab
• 6000 V, 10 MVA inductive load, 1200 HP motor testing facility

• Consumers Energy Flexible Power Station for testing and evaluation of various loads (home appliances, Plug-in HEV, etc) and renewable energy sources. (under construction)

• Denso-Toyota Prius HEV Powertrain Station (under construction)