School: Engineering

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  • Unit Title

    Power Systems 1
  • Unit Code

    ENS3206
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Shantanu KUMAR

Description

This unit introduces the basic concepts and fundamental components of electrical power systems. Basic electrical power concepts such as alternating current, real, reactive and apparent power, and multi-phase power are reviewed. This is followed by coverage of electrical power generation and transmission. The unit concludes with the analysis of power systems from the point of view of power flow.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass ENS3551

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify the major components of the electricity supply chain, including major plant and equipment.
  2. Analyse and conceptually design a bulk power generation and transmission system.
  3. Analyse and design three-phase electric power circuits including load and power calculations.
  4. Apply knowledge of power systems fundamentals and three-phase circuit operation in the solution of basic system design problems relevant to the 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 flows, direct and iterative solutions, control of power flow.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory activities and reports20%
TestQuizzes in-class10%
ProjectDesign project20%
Examination ^End of semester examination50%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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