Get to know the Gdansk branch

What is the Gdansk Branch?

The Gdańsk Branch is the largest field facility of the Institute of Power Engineering - National Research Institute, employing over 100 people. Our greatest potential is an experienced staff of diversified specialisation. The Gdańsk Branch has a modern laboratory base, equipped, inter alia, with a real-time RTSD simulator and systems for testing advanced measurement and automation solutions for the power system.

The branch has a wide range of laboratory facilities such as electrical machines, power hydraulics and signal transmitters coupled to the 15 kV network.

The Gdansk Branch of the Institute of Power Engineering - National Research Institute cooperates with a number of institutions of the Polish power sector and also takes an active part in the work of the European Energy Research Alliance by participating in two joint research programmes Joint Programme on Smart Grids, as a Full Member, and Joint Programme on Wind Energy, as an Associate Member, with the German Fraunhofer Institute IWES.

The Branch consists of 5 departments:

• Department of Control, Information and Communications (OGA);
• Department of Automation and System Analysis (OGC) -  with two Divisions: Automation and System Analysis;
• Department of Electrohydraulic Devices (OGH);
• Department of Power System Automation (OGM);
• Department of Strategy and System Development (OGS).

Gdańsk Branch cooperates with a number of institutions of the whole Polish energy sector. It also participates in works conducted by the European Energy Research Alliance.

What does the Gdansk branch do?

The branch is engaged in activities connected with broadly defined electrical power engineering, internal combustion engines, systems control and hydroelectric units:

• Power and energy digital measurement systems;
• Precipitator diagnosis and control;
• Power stations digital protection systems;
• Specific communication problems in electrical power engineering;
• Mathematical models of power system elements;
• Excitation and voltage control systems of all types of synchronous generators;
• Research of control systems influence on system stability;
• New stabilizer solutions enabling increase of stable generators functioning;
• Multi-parameter generators control algorithms, including adaptation and optimization elements;
• Power station automatics systems basing on combustion engine;
• Mathematical models of control systems and control algorithms;
• Analysis of hydrosystem dynamics, including hydraulic phenomenon in pipeline;
• Diagnosis of water and steam turbine control systems;
• Testing new hydraulic elements for turbine control systems;
• Designing of master control systems and water-power plant functioning control;
• Systems of automatic voltage and reactive power control in power plants;
• Systems of automatic transformer stations control;
• Transformer controllers;
• Remote control computer systems;
• Computer system software;
• Electric energy quality analysis:  voltage and current interference and distortion measurements;
• Long time horizon, technical and economic analysis concerning power industry.

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