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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Electrical Power Engineering

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 410-2102/02
Abbreviation ELEN
Course title Electrical Power Engineering
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Krejčí, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures: 1.-Basic electrical power terms, produce of electrical power in power plants, balance of produce and consumption of electrical power. 2.-Transmission and distribution of electrical power, electrical parametres of lines, effective resistance. 3.-Inductance, capacitance, conductance. 4.-Steady running conditions of electrical networks, simple DC line (LV, MV). 5.-Three-phase LV and MV lines and networks, MV nodal networks. 6.-HV and UHV lines. 7.-Failure states in electrical networks, short circuits in electrical networks, characteristics of short circuit effects. 8.-Terminology and identification of short circuit currents, short circuit current timing course. 9.-Calculation of short circuit conditions. 10.- Ground fault, ground-fault compensation. 11.-Power system operation, structure of power system, basic diagram of power station. 12.-Loses in electrical networks and their reduction. 13.-Power factor correction. 14.-Power quality.

Numeric exercises:1.-Basic electrical power terms (systems, loading diagram). 2.-Balance calculations of power plants. 3.-Electrical parametres of lines, effective resistance, inductance. 4.-Capacitance, conductance. 5.-Steady running conditions of LV and MV electrical lines. 6.-Calculations of HV long lines. 7.-Power factor correction. 8.-Loses in electrical networks. 9.-Calculation of short circuit conditions in network. 10.-Calculation of short circuit conditions in network. 11.-Test.

Laboratory exercises: 1.-Measurement on model of line. 2.-Measurement of power factor correction. 3.-Measurement on protection.

Projects: 1.-Calculation of steady running conditions of short line. 2.-Calculation of long line. 3.-Calculation of short circuit conditions in network.

Literature

Whitaker, J. C.: AC Power Systems, CRC Press 1991
Machowski, J., Bialek, J., Bumby, J.: Power System Dynamics and Stability, Chichester, 1997
Horowitz, S., Phadke, A.: Power System Relaying, Tanton, 1995

Advised literature

Burke J. J.: Power Distribution Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications, New York, 1994
Syllabus for distance part of combined study