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Electrical Power Systems

Unit Code: HET326




Duration

Contact Hours

Campus

Prerequisite

Corequisite

1 Semester

66 hours

Hawthorn, Sarawak

HET225 Electrical Machines

Nil

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points


Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) and Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)/ Bachelor of Commerce. 

Aims & Objectives:

To introduce students to the fundamentals of Power Systems modelling and analysis.

Teaching Methods:

Lectures (42 hours), tutorials (12 hours) and laboratory work (12 hours)

Assessment:

Assignments (10%), Labs (20%), Tests and Examination (70%)

Generic Skills Outcomes:

Students are expected to enhance several of their graduate attributes during this unit and should consult with your lecturer if not clear as to how this unit achieves this. The graduate attributes which relate to this unit help to produce students who are:

  • Are informed and knowledgeable in the area
  • Display attitudes appropriate to the professional area
  • Have pertinent skills and abilities
  • Have the ability to work both independently and collaboratively

In addition to the Swinburne generic attributes, this unit is also expected to enhance skills recognised by the Institution of Engineers (Australia), specifically:

  • Ability to apply knowledge of basic science and engineering fundamentals
  • In-depth technical competence in at least one engineering discipline
  • Ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution
  • Ability to utilise a systems approach to design and operational performance
  • Ability to function effectively as an individual and in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams, with the capacity to be a leader or a manager as well as an effective team member
  • Expectation of the need to undertake lifelong learning, and the capacity to do so

Content:

Revision of Power Concepts

  • Active, Reactive and Apparent Power. * Complex Power
  • Three-Phase Power Systems. * Star-Delta and delta-star transformations.

Electrical Energy Supply Systems

  • Transformer impedance referral
  • Per-Unit quantities.
  • Introduction to one-line diagrams and impedance diagrams
  • Autotransformers.

Transmission Line Modelling

  • Transmission line series components 
  • Transmission line shunt components
  • Transmission line current and voltage relationships
  • Increasing-accuracy mathematical models for the Transmission line.

Synchronous Machine

  • Construction and principles of operation
  • Speed of rotation of mmf pattern and relationship with number of poles and supply frequency
  • Equivalent circuit, phasor diagram and internal generated voltage
  • Power angle relationship and active power flow
  • Motor and generator modes of operation
  • Synchronizing to infinite busbar

Three Phase Transformers

  • Three-phase transformer connections
  • Transformation phase shifts
  • Clock-hour figures relationship to phase shift
Power System Modelling
 
  • Models of power system components
  • One-Line diagrams
  • Impedance diagrams from one-line diagrams

Loadflow Solutions (time permitting)

  • Loadflow data
  • Gauss-Siedel method of solution
  • Newton-Raphson method of solution
  • Outputs obtained from a loadflow study

Textbooks:

Glover, J.D., Sarma, M.S., & Overbye, T.J., Power System Analysis and Design, 4th Edn, Thomson Learning

Recommended Reading:

Grainger & Stevenson, “Power System Analysis
Bergen, A.R., Power Systems Analysis, 2nd edn, Prentice Hall International, 2004