| Description:
| Aims:
To provide a fundamental understanding of the structure, operation and analysis of a modern power system.
Learning Outcomes:
After successfully completing this unit students will be able to: identify factors affecting the pricing of electricity, describe the advantages of interconnected networks, describe and analyse transformers, explain the principles of switching, explain and analyse the operation of a generator and its control systems, predict the stability of a generator under varying system conditions, explain and apply methods of load flow analysis, perform balanced and unbalanced fault calculations, analyse and apply transmission line models, make simple settings calculations for overcurrent, distance and differential protection.
Skills:
Application of the information, techniques and methods detailed in the unit material, to the proposal of, and the carrying through of, appropriate solutions to engineering problems in electrical power systems. Taught, facilitated and tested.
Content:
Introduction; Basic Considerations: energy requirements, power system structure, pricing, reliability; Power System Plant: transformers, switchgear; Generation: steady-state operation, simple power systems; Dynamic & Transient Operation of Generators: equal area criterion, electrical transient modes; Load Flow Analysis: Gauss Iterative method, Newton-Raphson method; Fault Calculations: symmetrical components, sequence networks, fault types, transformer networks; Transmission Line Characteristics: transmission line representation, line performance chart; Principles of Protection: types of protection, ring distribution systems, distance protection.
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