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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 25%, EX 75% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: * To develop a knowledge and understanding of the fundamental concepts of electrical energy system operation, analysis and fault diagnosis. * To provide a thorough understanding of the operation and design of the principal types of AC plants and to provide models for the calculation of plant performance. * To provide students with an insight into, and an understanding of, analytic methods applied to electrical energy system analysis. Learning Outcomes: At the end of the unit students will be able to: * Calculate the performance of key plant including transformers. * Carry out analyses of symmetrical and asymmetrical fault conditions in electrical energy systems. * Perform a multi-node load flow analysis and exercise an informed choice over the solution technique. * Explain the techniques of dc power transmission including its benefits compared to ac transmission. * Analyse transients on power systems caused by switching operations or faults for both single and multi-phase situations. Skills: The programme should instil the ability critically evaluate engineering systems, across traditional boundaries. To this end students will learn to: * Recognise the principal subsystems of a modern power network. * Recognise and explain the functional purpose of each subsystem. * Apply the information, techniques and methods discussed in the lectures, to the analysis of important topics in electrical energy systems. * Critically evaluate a power network, and make observations relating to it's applicability to a particular application, or proposed modifications to the network. Content: * Energy and power; forms of energy; energy conversion from energy sources including wind, solar, tidal, bio-fuel, wave, hydro, nuclear and fossil fuel. * Structure of a modern power system: operating charts, voltage control, matrix representation of transmission lines. Two port network representation of transmission lines, per unit system, fault analysis: symmetrical components. * Transformers: their construction, operation, connections, relevant calculations. * Load flow analysis: network matrix representation, Gauss-Seidel and Newton-Raphson solution techniques. AC/DC conversion: converter types, dc transmission, advantages compared to AC transmission. Overvoltages: switching and fault overvoltages, Bewley Lattice diagrams, switchgear principles, current chopping, insulation coordination. Modal component theory: wave propagation. |
| Programme availability: |
EE50191 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
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