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Furnas Controls/Energy Conversion Laboratory

Laboratory Description:

This laboratory is named in honor of Carl Furnas, a 1906 graduate of Purdue University, who founded the Furnas Controls Company, which provided an endowment in his honor for the continual operation of the lab.

Furnas Laboratory PLC Station

This laboratory is named in honor of Carl Furnas, a 1906 graduate of Purdue University, who founded the Furnas Controls Company, which provided an endowment in his honor for the continual operation of the lab.

Furnas Laboratory Power Station

The Furnas Controls/Energy Conversion Laboratory is an 1150 ft 2 laboratory, which includes 10 student workstations used to support courses in power, rotating machines and programmable controllers.  Students use the Hampden consoles and related equipment to study rotating machinery and power systems.  Industrial controllers are used in conjunction with the Purdue-designed Industrial Process Control Learning System to simulate industrial control systems.  High-level programming language is used to control the PLC-5's and the ARCO data acquisition systems.  All of the test equipment in the Furnace Laboratory is HPIB compatible and interconnected for use in EET 488, Automated Test Instrumentation.

Courses in the Furnas Controls/Energy Conversion Laboratory

• EET 231  Electrical Power and Controls
• EET 302  Introduction to Control Systems
• EET 331  Generation and Transmission of Electrical Power
• EET 372  Process Control
• EET 381  Electrical Distribution Systems
• EET 488  Automated Test Instrumentation
• EET 499A  Automotive Electronics

Student workstation equipment

• Dell Pentium-based PC 
• Industrial Process Control Learning System
• Hampden Consoles with fractional hp motors, three-phase RLC load units, digital tachometers,
• Transmission line simulators, phase-angle meters, phase-shifting transformers
• Allen-Bradley Programmable Controllers
• HP E3631A Power Supplies
• Fluke 41 Harmonic Analysis Meters
• HP 33120A Function Generators/Arbitrary Waveform Generator
• Fluke PM 3370B Digital Oscilloscopes
• HP 34401A Multimeters

Student workstation software

• MS Office Pro (Word, Excel, etc.)
• Borland C++
• MS QuickBASIC
• Power World (power flow)
• Flukeview and Flukeview 41
• Power Tools (Dapper, Captor, Afault)
• Rockwell Software Logic 5 and Linx
• EZ Power
• Matlab/Simulink
• Genisis

Network Resources:

Student PC's and two HP printers are networked to each other, the Allen-Bradley data highway, and to the internet.