78453 - Electric Power Systems and Smart Grids M

Learning outcomes

Students of this course will attain knowledge of some advanced issues related to electrical power systems analysis and management. The use of renewables, one of the focus of the Electrical Engineering curriculum, calls nowadays for an even smarter management of the electric network, for this reason the smart grid paradigm originating form such a technical challenge will be illustrated and discussed.

Course contents

The course provides the basic elements for management and control of electrical power systems with penetration of renewable generation.

The main topics addressed are:

Elements of Economic Dispatch

Load Flow

Short Circuit calculation

frequency control

Voltage control

Stability

Electromagnetic Transients

Smarty grid paradigm  

Readings/Bibliography

· O.I. Elgerd, Electric energy systems theory, McGraw-Hill, 1982. 

·J.J. Grainger, W.D. Stevenson, Power system analysis, McGraw-Hill 1994.

·H. Saadat, Power system analysis, PSA Publishing, 2010.

· A. Greenwood, Electrical transients in Power systems, John Wiley & Sons, 1991.

· P. Kundur, Power system stability and control, McGraw-Hill 1994.

·S.H. Horowiz, A.G. Phadke, Power System Relaying, John Wiley & Sons, 1995.

·J. Machowski, J.W. Bialek, J.R. Bumby, Power System Dynamics and Stability, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Ed. 2008.

·J. Machowski, J.W. Bialek, J.R. Bumby, Power System Dynamics and Stability, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Ed. 2008.

·M. Bollen, The Smart Grid: Adapting the Power System to New Challenges, Morgan & Claypool Publishers; 1 edition (September 22, 2011.

Teaching methods

Lectures at the blackboard and by mans of pp slides previously delivered to students. 

Exercises at the blackboard and by means of computer laboratory session. 

Assessment methods

Written test (unbalanced faults for a power network having limited number of busses), followed by oral examination.

Teaching tools

Chalk and blackboard

PPT Slides

Animations 

 

Links to further information

http://lisep.ing.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Carlo Alberto Nucci