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| ELEC0029-2 | Analysis and operation of electric energy systems
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 30h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Thierry Van Cutsem |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| This course is an introduction to electric power system engineering. The steady-state operation of these systems is presented and the main analysis methods are given.
The covered material includes :
- recalls : power in sinusoidal regime, balanced three-phase systems
- properties of electric power transmission
- modelling of main components : transmission line, power transformer, synchronous machine, behaviour of loads
- steady-state analysis : "per unit" system, power flow computation
- analysis of disturbed operation : balanced faults, unbalanced three-phase systems.
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| At the end of the course, the student will have acquired an understanding of the principles which underlie the operation of alternating current electric energy systems. Those principles will enable him/her to tackle more specific or more complex problems likely to appear in his/her professional life.
The student will also master the computation methods dealing with the operation in steady state operation and in the presence of faults. Those methods are typically implemented in power system analysis software that he will be able to use with discernment.
Finally, the student will have acquired a perception of the electric power network as a "system", i.e. as a (large-scale) set of interconnected and interacting components. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Prerequisite
The student must have learned Electrical Circuits theory and be familiar with their analysis methods. The first two chapters offer short recalls of notions related to powers and three-phase systems. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The theory is taught and exercises are solved without devoting separate time slots to these two activities. On the contrary, exercises are inserted in the theoretical course in order to illustrate or extend the latter. When solving the exercises, interaction with the students is solicited.
A personal homework is asked to groups of two (possibly three) students. It involves various questions relative to a power system with enough complexity, whose data are provided. Those questions deal with a large part of the course material. A software is made available to the students allowing them to work at home. Some questions require to develop scripts in MATLAB language, to be appended to the report. There is a deadline to return the latter, typically the fist day of the exam session. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| face-to-face. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Detailed lecture notes are available and can be downloaded from the Web page of the professor (see below).
For the exercises, the students take note of the derivations made on the blackboard. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| - homework (outlined above) : 1/3 of the final grade in the first exam session; the grade is transferred to the second session but with a weight of 1/4 (unless the student wants to improve this work);
- theory : oral exam without lecture notes (but a list of formulae made available) : 1/3 of the final grade in the first session of exam, 3/8 in the second session;
- exercises : written exam with all notes available : 1/3 of the final grade in the first exam session, 3/8 in the second session; |
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Organizational remarks :
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| The course is taught during the second quadrimester, two half-days per week, so that time is left to perform the personnal work in the last part of the quadrimester.
Typical lectures:
- morning: 9-12 AM
- afternoon : 2-5 PM.
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Contacts :
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| Dr Thierry VAN CUTSEM
Montefiore Institute, Sart Tilman B 37, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
tel: +32 4 3662689
e-mail : t.vancutsem@ulg.ac.be
Web page : www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~vct (see "elec0029" tab) |
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