Engineering case studies
Erik Herron
Electrical engineer, controls engineer and project manager. Case studies in power systems, microgrids and industrial process control.
Case studies
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Waste-to-energy microgrid · 2019 to 2020
From Sewage to Kilowatts
Integrating a 300 kW steam turbine into a sewage-to-energy plant and building an inverter-based AC microgrid on a common DC bus
- 307 kW
- steam turbine-generator
- 780 VDC
- common bus with inverter-based AC supply
- 60 → 50 Hz
- developed in the US, deployed to West Africa
- Rankine cycle
- power management system
- islanded microgrid
- sequence of operation
- PLC interface design