Power System Engineering

(3-0-0-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Groups / Course Categories: Threads / ECE Electives

Course Coordinator: Daniel Molzahn

Prerequisites: ECE 3072 [min D]

Catalog Description

To introduce basic concepts of electric power system design, encompassing protection, stability and control.

Textbook(s)

Power System Analysis, Power System Analysis and Design

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)

N/A

Topic List

  1. Background (one lecture)
    1. Power system design issues
    2. Power system stability
    3. Power system protection
  2. Power System Models (Chapter 3, five lectures)
    1. Line Sequence Impedances
    2. Generator Sequence Impedances
    3. Transformer Impedances
    4. Per Unit Parameters
    5. Power System Grounding
  3. Power System Electrical Transients (Chapter 4, six lectures)
    1. Transients Characterization
    2. Balanced Fault Analysis
    3. Unbalanced Fault Analysis
    4. Three Phase Faults, Asymmetric Faults, Fault Transients Effects of Grounding, Grounding Potential Rise - Safety
    5. Interactive A&V of Electrical Transients
  4. Electromechanical Transients / Stability (Chapter 14, eight lectures)
    1. Classification of Electromechanical TransientsTransient Stability
    2. Numerical solution methods
    3. The equal area criterion
    4. Lyapunov direct method
    5. System Stabilization
  5. Protection Fundamentals (Chapter 5, eight lectures)
    1. Protection Philosophy, Zones of Protection, Protective Equipment Overcurrent Protection, Differential Protection
    2. Zone Distance Protection
    3. Overvoltage / Undervoltage Protection
    4. Underfrequency / Overfrequency Protection
    5. Pilot Relaying
    6. Substation Automation
    7. Interactive A&V of Protective Relaying
    8. Fault Monitoring and Recording