Unit details
ELEC5505 Power System Analysis
- Credit
- 6 points
- Offering
(see Timetable) Availability | Location | Mode |
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Semester 2 | UWA (Perth) | Face to face |
- Content
- This unit covers power network structures and steady-state model; power-flow analysis formulation; voltage and reactive-power control; short-circuit fault analysis; control in fault operating conditions; power systems protection; power and frequency control; and stability. The academic objective of the unit is for students to achieve a broad and in-depth education in the subject of power transmission and control.
- Outcomes
- Students are able to (1) demonstrate professional engineering skills and abilities when working in teams; (2) demonstrate the ability to model power systems components (transmission lines, transformers, generators and loads); (3) analyse the power flow of a simple interconnected power system with multiple sources and loads using Gauss-Siedal, Newton Raphson, and decoupled power flow methods; (4) analyse the impact of short-circuit faults on the power network and make design changes to the network to control the fault currents; (5) describe and analyse various protection schemes for power transmission and distribution systems; and (6) describe and analyse the techniques for control of voltage and frequency of interconnected power systems.
- Assessment
- Typically this unit is assessed in the following ways: (1) class tests; (2) laboratories; and (3) final examination. Further information is available in the unit outline.
Supplementary assessment is only available in this unit in the case of a student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course.
- Unit Coordinator(s)
- Professor Victor Sreeram
- Unit rules
- Prerequisites:
- enrolment in the Master of Professional Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering specialisation); for pre-2012 courses: ELEC1302 Power and Machine Technologies
or
ELEC2302 Electromagnetics and Electromechanics
or
(ENSC2002 Energy
and
ENSC3016 Electric Machines)
- Advisable prior study:
- ENSC3016 Electric Machines
- Incompatibility:
- ELEC4307 Power Transmission and Control
- Contact hours
- lectures, practical classes and laboratories
- The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of publication but may be subject to change.
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- Books and other material wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary reading', 'Recommended reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. Where texts are listed in the unit description above, an asterisk (*) indicates that the book is available in paperback.