Laboratory of Electrical Power Engineering 1
Lecturers
Laboratory exercises
Course Description
Study Programmes
University graduate
General Competencies
Students will be able to recognize main problems in power plant control. They will get practical experience with state estimation, power flow, short circuit and security analyses. Students will be able to develop dynamic models of electric power system. Students will be able to model main components of thermal, nuclear, hydro and wind power plants to check basic power conversion characterisitics using modern state of the art computer codes and models. Student will have basic capabilities to calculate heat production and dissipation in electric power system components.
Learning Outcomes
- identify heat sources and sinks and calculate ambient conditions having influence on electrical equipment operation
- define and analyze dependence of operational parameters in cooling towers and similar heat transfer equipment
- classify faults in electrical power networks and to calculate fault current values
- explain the difference in the short circuit values for different locations in the network and various network configurations
- analyze the steady state of power network and to calculate the power flows in the network
- select the structure of power networks
- argue the impact of distributed energy sources on power networks
- create graphics-based systems for data collection and analysis
Forms of Teaching
Two hours per week.
ExamsExamination before, during and after the laboratory exercises.
Laboratory WorkFour hours weekly.
Other Forms of Group and Self StudyPreparing for Laboratory work.
OtherMeasurement data elaborations.
Grading Method
Continuous Assessment | Exam | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Threshold | Percent of Grade | Threshold | Percent of Grade | ||
Laboratory Exercises | 0 % | 50 % | 0 % | 50 % | ||
Quizzes | 0 % | 50 % | 0 % | 50 % |
Comment:
10 laboratory exercises are individually evaluated. Each carries 10% of total points.
Week by Week Schedule
- Introductory lecture
- Laboratory exercise 1: Calculation of temperature increase in rooms with electrical equipment
- Laboratory exercise 2: Analysis of cooling tower operation
- Laboratory exercise 3: Measurement electrical characteristics of grounding system including four types of measurements: -potential distribution -grounding system resistance -step and contact voltage - resistance of lightning grounding system
- Laboratory exercise 4: Fuses. Measuremets of characteristics of different fuses types.
- Laboratory exercise 5: Power flow
- Laboratory exercise 6: Short circuit
- Exams
- Exams
- Laboratory exercise 7: Structure of distribution networks
- Laboratory exercise 8: Distributed energy sources
- Laboratory exercise 9: Fundamentals and application of graphical programming in power systems
- Laboratory exercise 10: Creating a system for monitoring and control of power system facilities
- Laboratory exercise 11: Load angle stability
- Exams and evaluation.