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Electricity Transmission and Distribution

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 410-2304/04
Abbreviation PREE
Course title Electricity Transmission and Distribution
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Krejčí, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
Basic concepts, power system of the Czech Republic, load diagram, basic configuration of distribution networks
Power lines (types, conductor materials, types of poles)
Electrical substations (types, wiring used in the Czech Republic),
Line parameters (resistance, inductance, capacitance, leakage)
Calculations of DC networks (basic calculation methods, solution of different network configurations)
Calculation of LV and MV AC networks (basic calculation methods, solution of more complex configurations)
Calculation of HV lines by substitute cells
Sizing of power lines, basic circuit breakers
Losses in power distribution, possibilities of loss reduction, power factor compensation
Transient phenomena - ground connections, short circuits, sizing for short circuit currents

Exercise:
Basic concepts
Line parameters
DC network calculations - basic methods
DC network calculations - nodal networks
Calculation of LV and MV AC networks - basic methods, more complex configurations
Calculation of HV lines by substitute cells
Power distribution losses
Reducing losses in power distribution
Transients - ground connections and short circuits
Sizing for short-circuit current effects

Labs:
Laboratory Problem - Short Alternating Current Model
Laboratory task - HV line model
Laboratory Problem - Power Factor Compensation

Projects:
Calculations of electrical networks and short-circuit ratios

E-learning

Selected study materials are published on the e-learning portal (https://www.vsb.cz/e-vyuka/en).

Literature

•Blackburn, J.L.: Applied Protective Relaying, Newark, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, 1976
•Warrington, A.R. van C.: Protective Relays : Their Theory and Practice, London, 1971
•Whitaker, J. C.: AC Power Systems, CRC Press 1991
•Burke J. J.: Power Distribution Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications, New York, 1994
•Machowski, J., Bialek, J., Bumby, J.: Power System Dynamics and Stability, Chichester, 1997
•Horowitz, S., Phadke, A.: Power System Relaying, Tanton, 1995

Advised literature

Learning texts for combined form of study