Power Systems - Analysis and Design Principles

Lecture 1 (Introduction):

• Course Overview and Passing Requirements
• Traditional Power Systems
• Need for Increased Flexibility in Future Power Systems
• Fundamentals (Phasors & real, reactive and complex powers, power factor, Balanced 3-phase systems)

Lecture 2 (Main components of traditional power systems (synchronous generators, power transformers, transmission lines)):

• Main components of traditional power systems (Power transformers, Synchronous generators, Transmission lines)

Lecture 3 (Transmission lines modelling, power flow calculation and voltage stability):

• Transmission lines modelling
• Power-flow calculation
• Voltage stability

Lecture 4 (Protection of transmission networks):

• Introduction to Power System Protection
• Instrument Transformers
• Overcurrent Relays
• Radial System Protection
• Directional Relays
• Distance Relays
• Differential Relays
• Digital Relays

Lecture 5 (Transient stability and transmission lines transient operations):

• Power system transient stability
• The swing equation
• Simplified synchronous machine model and system equivalents
• The equal-area criterion
• Traveling waves
• Traveling waves on single-phase lossless lines
• Boundary conditions for single-phase lossless lines

Lecture 6 (Control of power systems (frequency control, voltage control)):

• Introduction to Power System Control
• Voltage Control (Reactive Power and Voltage Control, Exciter-Generator Model)
• Frequency Control (Frequency Regulation, Turbine-Generator Model)

Lecture 7 (HVDC systems):

• Overview of the HVDC systems
• Some HVDC projects
• Challenges of the HVDC systems

Lecture 8 (Challenges of future power systems and possibilities of new technologies):

• Challenges of future power systems
• DSO/TSO Interaction and Coordination
• Possibilities of new technologies (PMU/synchrophasor measurements, Digital substations, Big data-analytics)