Electrical Power Systems

DigiWind  |  TUS
Starts: 01/11/2025  |  12 Weeks
Hybrid Lectures

The module reviews the concepts of modern high-voltage (HV) Electrical Power Systems and their operation. Including: Planning: electrical power system, including generating sources, storage, security and reliability. Operation and Control: Decentralised control; excitation systems, synchronous machines, substation automation. Centralised control, Reactive Power Plant and FACTS Controllers. Shunt and series compensations, VAR compensation. Power Transformers: Review, construction, oil systems, nameplate, specifications. Single and three-phase transformers. Short circuit and inrush currents, surge protection. Control of Power and Frequency: Automatic Voltage Regulators (AVRs), Control Loops, Division of Load, Power-Frequency Characteristic, Computer Control of Load, Frequency & Stability. Control of Voltage and Reactive Power: Review of Reactive Power, Voltage Control, Injection of Reactive Power, Tap-Changing Transformers. Reactive Power Compensation: Shunt Capacitors, Static VAR Control, Series Compensation, Subsynchronous Resonance. HVDC: Review of HVDC converters. Converter station design. HVDC thyristor valves, harmonic filters, Reactive power considerations. Control of HVDC.

Goals

The module develops the Learner’s ability to analyse, design, manage and validate electrical power, and transformer systems using digital design and simulation analytical tools. This analysis includes power flow, system stability and voltage, frequency & reactive power control. On completion of this module the learner will/should be able to; 1. Analyse the control of electrical power and frequency in interconnected systems. 2. Specify the requirements of electrical power transformers in industrial settings. 3. Design electrical power systems using dedicated systems analysis software, such as ERACS & ETAP. 4. Analyse and design applications of reactive power and voltage control methods in a power grid. 5. Classify Power System Operations and Control, and apply the principles to HVDC applications.
Instructors
Ger O’Farrell, Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, TUS
Requirements
Knowledge of electrical power systems. Minimum Bachelor Degree and english language competence (equivalent to IELTS6.5)
Notes
This 5 ECTS Module (Irish NFQ Level 9) is a constituent module of the TUS MSc in Electrical Power Systems.

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