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EE 491: Performance of Power Systems

Catalog Information
Course Number: 
491
Credits: 
3
Offered: 
Fall
Pre-Requisites
EE 361: Electrical Power Systems
EE 362: Power Systems Laboratory I

or

Three-phase circuits, electromechanical energy conversion, theory of synchronous machines, DC machines and induction machines, circuit representations of transformers and transmission lines, power-flow equations, sufficient computer literacy to do programming assignments using Matlab.

Dependent Courses: 
Class Information
Structure: 

Three 50-minute lectures per week. No labs. Typically have two one-hour exams, and a two-hour final. Typically, there are two computer projects; the first on implementation of power-flow algorithms, and the second on concepts of dynamic stability.

Topics: 
  • Review of power system components and analysis (3)
  • Power flow analysis - Newton-Raphson, fast decoupled (9)
  • Economic operation, hydrothermal coordination (6)
  • Power System reliability (6)
  • Generator controls, interarea exchange and electricity markets (6)
  • Concepts of small-signal stability and transcient stability (9)
  • Introduction to power system security and state estimation (6)
Requirements
Textbooks/References: 

Power System Analysis, 1st ed., J. J. Grainger W. D. Stevenson, Jr., McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering, 1994, ISBN: 0070612935.

Student Edition of MATLAB Version 5 User's Guide, Duane Hanselman, Bruce Littlefield, MathWorks Inc., Prentice Hall, 1997, ISBN 0-132-72550-9.

Professor/Coordinator: 
Mani Venkatasubramanian
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