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| ELEC0029-2 | Electric power systems analysis and operation
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 30h Pr |
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| Number of credits : |
| Master in Electrical Engineering, research focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Electrical Engineering, research focus, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Electro-mechanical Engineering, research focus, 1st year | | 4 |
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| Master in in Electrical Engineering, professional focus in sustainable car technologies, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Electrical Engineering, specialized approach, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Electro-mechanical Engineering, professional focus in sustainable car technologies, 1st year | | 4 |
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| Master in Electro-mechanical Engineering, Professional Focus (Management), 1st year | | 4 |
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| Lecturer : | Thierry Van Cutsem |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester |
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Course contents :
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| This course is an introduction to electric power system engineering. The main emphasis is on steady-state operation. Some important analysis methods are presented.
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 computation methods pertaining to steady state operation and in the presence of faults. Those methods are typically implemented in power system analysis software that he/she will be able to use with discernment.
Finally, the student will have acquired a perception of the electric power network as a (large-scale) "system", i.e. a 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.
Basic knowledge of MATLAB is required. |
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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 homework has to be performed by groups of three (possibly two) students. It involves various questions relative to a power system with enough complexity, whose data are provided. Those questions involve a large part of the course material. The ARTERE software is made available to the students, allowing them to organize their work as they wish. 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 in French and can be downloaded from the Web page of the lecturer (see below). The student who does not understand French should contact the lecturer as soon as possible; he/she will be recommended specific chapters in a few textbooks in English.
The slides used during the lectures are in English and are available upon request.
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, in which case it is assigned a weight of 1/3;
- theory : oral exam without lecture notes (but a list of formulae is provided) :
- first session of exams : 1/3 of the final grade
- second session of exams : 3/8 of the final grade, if the homework grade is transferred from the first session; otherwise, 1/3 of the final grade.
- exercises : written exam with all notes available :
- first session of exams : 1/3 of the final grade
- second session of exams : 3/8 of the final grade, if the homework grade is transferred from the first session; otherwize, 1/3 of the final grade.
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Work placement(s) :
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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 homework (see above) 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
office : room 0/13 in building B37
tel: +32 4 3662689
e-mail : t.vancutsem@ulg.ac.be
Web page : www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~vct |
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| Items online : |
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| Web page of the course |
| go the Web page below, then click on the "Courses" tab |
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