Digital Twins in Marine Power Systems
Date: February 12, 2025
Topic: Digital Twins in Marine Power Systems
Speaker: Thomas Morrell graduated from Gonzaga University in 2015 with a BS in electrical engineering and from Washington State University in 2017 with an MS in electrical engineering. In 2017, he began working at POWER Engineers, Inc. in Denver, Colorado, in the SCADA and Analytical Services Division, where he worked on various projects related to system protection, transmission planning, and substation automation. In March 2020, he was hired at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. in Pullman, Washington, in the Engineering Services Division as a protection engineer involved in various projects related to hardware-in-the-loop testing, arc-flash protection, and protection system standards development. He currently works as a development lead engineer in the Infrastructure Defense Division where he leads a team focused on power systems research and product development for the U.S. Federal Government. He is a senior member of IEEE and a registered professional engineer in the states of California, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
Abstract: Digital twins were first introduced in 2002 by Dr. Michael Grieves for the formation of a product lifecycle management center. Since then, the use of digital twins as a means of replicating physical system states in order to recreate real-world conditions has grown to other industries and sectors, to include the power system industry and the U.S. Department of Defense. Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) uses real-time digital simulation tools to create digital twins with which power system protection and power system management solutions may be designed, tested, and validated. This presentation will cover the development of real-time digital simulation digital twins solutions at SEL and highlight a digital twin project recently completed by the SEL Infrastructure Defense Division.
Attendance was 10 Industry members and 25 Students.
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