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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Power Systems 1

  • Unit Code

    ENS3206

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit introduces the concepts of electrical power systems, including energy generation, transmission and distribution. Basic electrical power concepts such as alternating current, real, reactive and apparent power, and multi-phase power are covered. This is followed by coverage of power system design and operation, and power quality.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS3551

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and conceptually design a power generation, transmission and distribution system.
  2. Analyse and design electric power circuits including load and power calculations.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of electricity supply chain fundamentals, major plant and equipment, complex power, and three-phase circuit operation.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of power quality, system performance and operation of a power system.

Unit Content

  1. Electricity supply chain fundamentals, major plant and equipment.
  2. Generation of electrical energy, types of generating stations, hydropower, thermal, nuclear, and wind-generating stations, simple and synchronous generators.
  3. Loads, resistive loads, motors, electronic devices.
  4. Overview of power systems, history of electric power systems, present and future trends, electric utility industry structure, computer analysis.
  5. Power quality, system performance and operation.
  6. Power transformers, per-unit system, three-phase transformer connections, autotransformers, off-nominal turns ratio transformers.
  7. Review of fundamental quantities and definitions of electric power, AC power, three-phase power, delta and wye connections, phasors, power factor, balanced three-phase circuits, per phase analysis.
  8. Transmission of electrical energy, transmission lines, components of a HV transmission line, transmission line parameters, transmission line approximations and equivalent circuits, maximum power flow, line loadability, reactive compensation techniques, transmission lines transient operation, power system overvoltages.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, and laboratory work.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestMid-semester test20%
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory activities and reports18%
TestPop quizzes12%
Examination ^End of semester examination50%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • ^ Glover, J. D., Sarma, M. S., & Overbye, T. J. (2012). Power system analysis and design (5th SI ed.). CENGAGE Learning.
  • Bergen, A.R. & Vittal V. (2000). Power System Analysis (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Saadat, H. (2011). Power system analysis (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw Hill Higher Education.
  • Kothari, D. P. & Nagrath, I. J. (2008). Modern power system analysis (4th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Power Systems 1

  • Unit Code

    ENS3206

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit introduces the concepts of electrical power systems, including energy generation, transmission and distribution. Basic electrical power concepts such as alternating current, real, reactive and apparent power, and multi-phase power are covered. This is followed by coverage of power system design and operation, and power quality.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS3551

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and conceptually design a power generation, transmission and distribution system.
  2. Analyse and design electric power circuits including load and power calculations.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of electricity supply chain fundamentals, major plant and equipment, complex power, and three-phase circuit operation.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of power quality, system performance and operation of a power system.

Unit Content

  1. Overview of power systems, history of electric power systems, present and future trends, electric utility industry structure, computer analysis.
  2. Electricity supply chain fundamentals, major plant and equipment.
  3. Review of fundamental quantities and definitions of electric power, AC power, three-phase power, delta and wye connections, phasors, power factor, balanced three-phase circuits, per phase analysis.
  4. Generation of electrical energy, types of generating stations, hydropower, thermal, nuclear, and wind-generating stations, simple and synchronous generators.
  5. Power transformers, per-unit system, three-phase transformer connections, autotransformers, off-nominal turns ratio transformers.
  6. Transmission of electrical energy, transmission lines, components of a HV transmission line, transmission line parameters, transmission line approximations and equivalent circuits, maximum power flow, line loadability, reactive compensation techniques, transmission lines transient operation, power system overvoltages.
  7. Power quality, system performance and operation, loads, resistive loads, motors, electronic devices.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, and laboratory work.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestMid-semester test25%
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory activities and reports15%
TestPop quizzes10%
Examination ^End of semester examination50%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • ^ Glover, J. D.,  Overbye, T. J., & Sarma, M. S., (2016), Power system analysis and design (6th SI ed.), CENGAGE Learning.
  • Bergen, A.R. & Vittal V. (2000). Power System Analysis (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Saadat, H. (2011). Power system analysis (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw Hill Higher Education.
  • Kothari, D. P. & Nagrath, I. J. (2008). Modern power system analysis (4th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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