Study Programmes 2015-2016
| ELEC0014-3 | ||||||||
| Introduction to electric power and energy systems | ||||||||
|
Duration :
|
||||||||
| 28h Th, 12h Pr, 1d FW | ||||||||
|
Number of credits :
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
Lecturer :
|
||||||||
| Thierry Van Cutsem | ||||||||
|
Language(s) of instruction :
|
||||||||
| English language | ||||||||
|
Organisation and examination :
|
||||||||
| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||||||||
|
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
|
||||||||
| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||||||||
|
Course contents :
|
||||||||
| As the title indicates, this course is an introduction to electric power system engineering.
It describes the main principles of operation, including regulation. After an overall description of the main components, the main emphasis is on their modelling and their operation in steady state. The covered material includes :
|
||||||||
|
Learning outcomes of the course :
|
||||||||
| At the end of the course, the student will have acquired an understanding of the principles underlying the operation of alternating current electric power systems, as well as the constraints imposed. 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 have acquired a perception of the electric power network as a (large-scale) "system", i.e. a set of interconnected and interacting components. From a practical viewpoint, at the end of the course, the student will be able to analyse small systems in three-phase balanced operating conditions. He will be able, for instance, to compute voltages at various locations of the network, powers produced by the energy sources, compensation devices to install, currents in components, losses, etc. |
||||||||
|
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
|
||||||||
| 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.
The student must be comfortable with phasor and comple number computations. |
||||||||
|
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
|
||||||||
| 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 full-day visit will take place at the training center and the national dispatching of ELIA, the Belgian transmission system operator, giving the student an opportunity to see the practical aspects of the course material. |
||||||||
|
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
|
||||||||
| face-to-face | ||||||||
|
Recommended or required readings :
|
||||||||
| 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, in English, contain additional information. They can be downloaded from the same Web page. For the exercises, the students take note of the derivations made on the blackboard. |
||||||||
|
Assessment methods and criteria :
|
||||||||
| - theory : oral exam without lecture notes. A list of formulae will be provided. 1/2 of the final grade.
- exercises : written exam without notes. However, the student may bring and use durint the exam a double-face page of hand-written notes prepared by him/herself, including the main formulae and any other material helping him/her to solve the exercices. 1/2 of the final grade. |
||||||||
|
Work placement(s) :
|
||||||||
| one-day visit to ELIA: see above | ||||||||
|
Organizational remarks :
|
||||||||
| The course is taught during the first quadrimester, one half-day per week.
2015 schedule : every Wednesady morning from 8:45 AM to 12:15 PM |
||||||||
|
Contacts :
|
||||||||
| Dr Thierry VAN CUTSEM
Research Director, FNRS Adjunct Professor, ULg Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Comput. Science Montefiore Institute Sart Tilman B37 B-4000 Liege Belgium phone: +32 4 3662689 (office) +32 494 063373 (cellular) fax: +32 4 3664582 t.vancutsem@ulg.ac.be www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~vct |
||||||||
|
Items online :
|
||||||||
 | Web page of the course : go the Web page below, then click on the "Courses" tab |
|||||||