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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Computer Applications in Electrical Power Engineering

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 410-2301/02
Abbreviation VPEE
Course title Computer Applications in Electrical Power Engineering
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Vladimír Král, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
Chances of PC use in power engineering.
Basic electric values measuring problems.
Measurement signal adjustment.
Converters of electric values, technical standards.
Data transfer and data processing. PC control of measurement instruments.
Long term automatic measuring.
Steady state and dynamic voltage deviation. Voltage outages. Transient performances.
Software for A/D converters and distribution network monitors.
Measuring data processing and their evaluation.
Monitoring and evaluation of electric power take-off in relation to daily load curve.
Demand side management. Maximum stable and quarter capacity. Energy consumption management.
Batch and bulk data processing. Database and spreadsheet programs usage.
Results presentation.

Exercises:
Information about the requirements for passing the exercises. Safety considerations. The organization of the work in the labs. Instructions for elaboration of lab task.
Resistivity measuring by Ohm method. Measurement error evaluation.
Voltage transformer transmission response.
PC serial interface. Measuring instruments control via serial interface, measured data import to spreadsheet.
Data acquisition cards - description, principles, characteristics and their control. Principle of A/D converters.
LV transient measuring.
Special software for mathematic data processing, FFT analyse.
Virtual development software package and their applications.
Final written test.

Laboratories:
No.1: Measuring of wide brand general-purpose instruments frequency dependence.
No.2: Measuring of voltage and current by DAQ card. Experiment configuration. Measured data analyses.
No.3: Measuring electric values accordance with EN 50160. Let use Analyser BK 550.
No.4: Measuring by distribution network monitor.

Project:
Phase shift by ground fault determination.

Literature

Prasad, V. Engineering electromagnetic compatibility - principles, measurement, technologies, and computer models, New York: IEEE New York, 2001, ISBN 0-7803-4743-9 
Gupta, S.; Gupta, J.P. PC Interfacing for Data Acquisition & PC Process Control, 2nd edition, NYC: Instrument Society of America, 1994, ISBN 1-55617-513-2.
Kollár, I., et al. Technology of Electrical Measurement, John Wiley Chichester, 1993, ISBN 0-471-93435-6 
Haasz, V.; Snorek; M., Schummy, H. PC Instrumentation for Data Acquisition and Measurement, Berlin: PTB Berlin, 1992, ISBN 3-89429-209-1 

Advised literature

Walkenbach, J.: Microsoft Excel 2000 Formulas, IDG Books Worlwide, 1999.