PSCAD

Good one

Commentaires : Overall the software is good for the Electrical engineers.

Avantages :

There are lots of feature in this software. I used our university version. It helped in my project to complete it.

Inconvénients :

Need more knowledge to operate this software. Full understanding is needed

Powerful tool for simulation of Electromagnetic Transients

Commentaires : In my company it is used for the estimation of faults during a year of a transmission line for the purposes of a service contract with the company that supplies the electric power, and for the realization of insulation coordination in transmission lines and substations.

Avantages :

It has a fairly complete library of devices for electrical components and control, I used it for simulation of ElectroMagnetic Transients to achieve the current intensity under which the backflashover occurs in voltage dischargers of 115 kV transmission lines, useful value for the coordination of isolation and for the statistics of how many faults the line can have during a year, this function can be done in this software manually increasing the discharge current or automatically with the use of multiple run, everything will depend on the skill and of knowledge that you have of this application, that is, it is quite powerful, but you have to know all its functions very well. It also allows the simulation of the elements of the line as detailed as the user requires, of course the results will depend on the accuracy of the data that is entered.

Inconvénients :

The management of the software is not intuitive, it requires previous training to be able to start with its use, as well as the mastery of the electromagnetic transients is required. On the other hand, the way in which the library is stored could be improved in order to perform the selection of devices by dragging them, as is done with the palette control and the electrical palette.

Pscad for Electrical Engineering

Avantages :

We can simulate most complex system in PSCAD , if we have full licensed software, if after we simulate once it will take more time for next simulation.

Inconvénients :

After 1st simulation mostly it will show bugs in second simulation if we are not using fully licensed software. But fully licensed software is very expensive.

PSCAD's ease of accessibility and does it worth to buy

Commentaires : My final year project was stated with eTab then I ended up working with PSCAD. it's hard to lean actually in the beginning but then after it's really worth your time.

Avantages :

The easiness of the software, where we can construct any kind of network with proper fulfilled knowledge. because of the constructed tools and other equipment were already been designed by the team. And also the cookbooks and the helping portal which was given by the company itself also a very handy material for a beginner.

Inconvénients :

There is a very big difference from the free version and the premium one. so when you are looking to tranfer your work from a free verion to a premium version then you are in trouble .

Best tool for Power Engineering Simulations

Commentaires : With the evolution of power systems PSCAD is the best tool to obtain fast and accurate simulations with the help of comprehensive library of various types of models.

Avantages :

Availability of almost everything related to power engineering

Inconvénients :

maximum possible nodes that can be used is around 200