ENEL480-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017

Electrical Power Systems

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2017
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 3 March 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 19 May 2017

Description

This course is designed to build on Power Systems 1(ENEL380) by giving a more in-depth treatment of some areas while introducing new areas such as reliability assessment are introduced. Issues such as renewable energy, sustainability and environmental impact will be covered, as will new developments in power systems, in the process of teaching this course and by using a design assignment as problem-based learning tool. Topic covered include: Power-flow, Fault analysis, Reliability analysis, Power Quality, Renewable energy, Smart Grids, Power Electronics in Power System (SVC,STATCOM, HVDC).

Topics covered include:

1. Power-flow Analysis
2. Fault Analysis
3. Protection
4. Reliability analysis
5. Smart Grids
6. Power Quality
7. Trends and developments in electrical power systems

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Understand the laws and concepts governing the behaviour of an interconnected electrical power system
2. Understand the various types of analysis used for analysing electrical power systems, their purpose and essential features (for both steady-state and transient conditions)
3. Understand the more sophisticated power-flow analysis (AC/DC and motor-starting studies)
4. Understand and able to perform Fault analysis for balanced and unbalanced faults.
5. Apply knowledge of power system behaviour to design a solution that addresses problems with a real-life future scenario (this is an open-ended complex design problem)
6. Discern good and bad developments based on technical, environmental and fiscal reasons (i.e. the development of critical thinking).
7. Perform Protection systems calculations
8. Understand and perform Reliability analysis on Generation & Transmission systems, Distribution systems and interconnected power systems
9. Understand the Smart Grid concept
10. Understand present trends and developments in electrical power systems
11. Prepare appropriately detailed formal engineering report

Prerequisites

ENEL380, ENEL382

Restrictions

ENEL437

Course Coordinator

Neville Watson

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 30%
Test 30%
Exam 40%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,038.00

International fee $4,600.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Electrical and Computer Engineering .

All ENEL480 Occurrences

  • ENEL480-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017