Power System Engineering
(3-0-0-3)
CMPE Degree: This course is Elective for the CMPE degree.
EE Degree: This course is Elective for the EE degree.
Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.
Technical Interest Group(s) / Course Type(s): Electrical Energy
Course Coordinator: A P Meliopoulos
Prerequisites: ECE 3072
Catalog Description
To introduce basic concepts of electric power system design, encompassingprotection, stability and control.
Course Outcomes
- Explain the failure modes in electric energy systems
- Analyze electric power systems under various fault conditions.
- Apply the basic principles of stability of dynamic systems to electric energy systems.
- Apply the principles of power system protection, characteristics of protective relays and setting and coordinating protective relays.
- Model and formulate the dynamics of electric energy systems.
- Determine the stability properties of electric energy systems.
- Apply fault detection methods to formulate specific protection functions for electric energy systems.
Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)
Not Applicable
Topical Outline
Background (one lecture)
Power system design issuesPower system stability
Power system protection
Power system controlPower System Models (Chapter 3, five lectures)
Line Sequence Impedances
Generator Sequence Impedances
Transformer Impedances
Per Unit Parameters
Power System Grounding
Power System Electrical Transients (Chapter 4, six lectures)
Transients Characterization
Balanced Fault Analysis
Unbalanced Fault Analysis
Three Phase FaultsAsymmetric FaultsFault TransientsEffects of GroundingGrounding Potential Rise – Safety
Interactive A&V of Electrical Transients
Electromechanical Transients / Stability (Chapter 14, eight lectures)
Classification of Electromechanical TransientsTransient Stability
Numerical solution methods
The equal area criterion
Lyapunov direct method
System Stabilization
Protection Fundamentals (Chapter 5, eight lectures)
Protection PhilosophyZones of ProtectionProtective Equipment Overcurrent ProtectionDifferential Protection
Zone Distance Protection
Overvoltage / Undervoltage Protection
Underfrequency / Overfrequency Protection
Pilot Relaying
Substation Automation
Interactive A&V of Protective Relaying
Fault Monitoring and Recording