Overview: Integrated and deregulated power system. Real-time operation: SCADA. Energy management system, various data acquisition devices, wide area monitoring, protection and control. Application functions: state estimation; short term load forecasting; unit commitment, economic dispatch, optimal power flow. Frequency control: Generation and turbine governors, droop, frequency sensitivity of loads, area control error, automatic generation control and coordination, frequency collapse and emergency load shed. Power system security: Static and dynamic security constraints. Electricity market operation, bidding, spot market, social welfare, market clearing price, locational marginal price, bilateral contracts and forward market, hedging. Demand side control: Distribution and demand side management system, smart grid concept.
Course Catalogue
High voltage DC: Rectifier circuits, voltage multipliers, Van-de-Graaf and electrostatic generators. High voltage AC: Cascaded transformers and Tesla coils. Impulse voltage: Shapes, mathematical analysis, codes and standards, single and multi-stage impulse generators, tripping and control of impulse generators. Breakdown in gas, liquid and solid dielectric materials. Corona. High voltage measurements and testing. Overvoltage phenomenon and insulation coordination. Lightning and switching surges, basic insulation level, surge diverters, surge diverters and arresters.
The students will perform experiments to verify practically the theories and concepts learned in EEE 473.
Compensating using pole placement technique. State equations of digital
systems with sample and hold, state equation of digital systems, digital simulation and approximation. Solution of discrete state equations: Z-transform, state equation and transfer function, state diagrams, state plane analysis. Stability of digital control systems. Digital simulation and digital redesign. Time domain analysis. Frequency domain analysis. Controllability and observability. Optimal linear digital regular design. Digital state observer. Microprocessor control. H control, nonlinear control.
The students will perform experiments to verify practically the theories and
concepts learned in EEE 475. Students will also design simple systems using the principles learned in EEE 475.
Renewable energy sources: Solar, wind, mini-hydro, geothermal, biomass,
wave and tides. Solar photovoltaic: Characteristics of photovoltaic (PV) systems, PV models and
equivalent circuits, sun tracking systems. Maximum power point tracking: chopper, inverter.
Sizing the PV panel and battery pack in stand-alone PV applications. Solar energy applications
In residential, electric vehicle, naval, and space. Solar power plants connected to grid. Solar
thermal: principles of concentration, solar tower, parabolic dish, receiver, storage, steam turbine and generator. Wind turbines: Turbine types, power limitation, Betz’s law; Control mechanism: Pitch, yaw, speed. Couplings between turbine and electric generator. Wind turbine generator – DC, synchronous, self-excited induction generator and doubly fed induction generator. Grid interconnection: Active and reactive power control. Biomass and biogas electricity generation.
Review of 80×86 family of microprocessors. Instruction and data access
methods in a 32-bit microprocessor; Representation of operands and operators; Instruction
formats; Designing Arithmetic Logic Unit; Processor design: single bus, multi-bus architecture; Control Unit Design: hardwired, micro-programmed and pipe line; VLSI implementation of a
microprocessor or part of a microprocessor design.
The students will perform experiments to verify practically the theories and
concepts learned in EEE 481. Students will also design simple systems using the principles learned in EEE 481.
Switching and multiplexing; ISO, TCP-IP and ATM reference models.
Different Data Communication Services: Physical Layer- wired and wireless transmission media, Cellular Radio: Communication satellites; Data Link Layer: Elementary protocols, sliding window protocols, Error detection and correction, HDLC, DLL of internet, DLL of ATM; Multiple Access protocols, IEEE.802 Protocols for LANs and MANs, Switches, Hubs and Bridges; High speed LAN; Network layer: Routing, Congestion control, Internetworking, Network layer in internet: IP protocol, IP addresses, ARP; NI in ATM transport layer: transmission control protocol. UDP, ATM adaptation layer; Application layer: Network security; Email, Domain Name System; Simple Network Management Protocol; HTTP and World Wide Web.
The students will perform experiments to verify practically the theories and
concepts learned in EEE 483. Students will also design simple systems using the principles learned in EEE 483.