Course Description: This course deals with different aspects of power system operation; monitoring and control with a view to enrich knowledge of students in this important area of power engineering

Course Objectives:

Characteristics of power generation units, economic dispatch with and without taking into account transmission loss, unit commitment, introduction to power system control and its importance, control of generation, voltage and frequency control, SCADA systems and its application to the power system operation and control, and system operation in deregulation environment.

Week 1

Introduction to the course, Mathematical Basis for Optimization, Linear and nonlinear Systems, Convex and non-convex optimization problems Week 2 Unit commitment in power systems: Fuel consumption, Characteristics of thermal unit, Incremental fuel rate and their approximation, Minimum and maximum power generation limits Week 3 Unit Commitment Continued: Simulation of UC problem, inclusion of the constraints, Introduction to economic dispatch problem
Week 4 Unit Commitment Problem Simulation and Use-case study in the Opensource software Week 5 Economic Dispatch: Economic dispatch problem with and without transmission line losses Week 6 Economic Dispatch: Problem Simulation and Use-case study in the Opensource software
Week 7 Power System Security: Factors affecting security, Contingency analysis, Network sensitivity, correcting the generation dispatch by using sensitivity method and linear programming. Week 8 Power System Control: Ideas of load frequency and voltage control, Reactive power control, Block diagrams of P-f and Q-V controllers Week 9 Mid-semester Examination Week 10 Power System Control: ALFC control, Static and dynamic performance characteristics of ALFC and AVR controllers, Excitation systems model, concept of area and Tie-line operations Week 11 Small Scale Stability Analysis: d-q model of generator, State space representation Week 12 Small Scale Stability Analysis: Eigen value and participation factor analysis. Week 13 Voltage Stability: Basic concepts, Voltage collapse, P-V and Q-V curves, Impact of load, Static and dynamic analysis of voltage stability, Prevention of voltage collapse. Week 14 Real-Time Monitoring using State Estimation: State Estimation, Formulation Week 15 Real-Time Monitoring using State Estimation: Solution Algorithms Week 16 Simulation and Modeling of Power System: Stability analysis of single area frequency control, Bias control of two area system and AVR. Week 17 Simulation and Modeling of Power System: Advanced Topics in Power System Control with a case- study

Reference Books

Power Generation, Operation, and Control, 3rd Edition Wood, Allen J.

Computational Methods for Electric Power Systems, Third Edition Crow, Mariesa L.