EE-632: Economic Operation & Control of Power Systems: Instructor: S. Chakrabarti
EE-632: Economic Operation & Control of Power Systems: Instructor: S. Chakrabarti
(2010, Second-Semester) Instructor: S. Chakrabarti Course Description The course is intended to present fundamentals as well as state-of-the-art techniques for economic operation and control of electric power systems. The prerequisite for this course is a good background in power system fundamentals (e.g. undergraduate course on power system analysis). Details of the course assessment plans are given at the end. Much emphasis is given on the course project. The course project is different from the usual term papers. Unlike in the term papers, you are required to search for a suitable research topic related to the course content, and work on the problem throughout the semester. At the end of the semester, you are required to present a seminar on the chosen topic and submit a brief report. Guidance will be provided to you, if needed, in choosing and conducting the course project. The intention is to provide exposure to the methods of conducting a research work, and also to encourage independent and innovative ideas, which is also the main theme of this course. Course Contents Mathematical preliminaries Unconstrained and constrained optimization for functions of single and multiple variables, techniques to search for optimal solutions, linear programming, dynamic programming, computational intelligence based optimization techniques Economic dispatch of thermal units Economic load dispatch of thermal units including network losses, transmission line loss calculation using B-coefficients, use of optimization techniques to find economic dispatch Unit commitment Need for unit commitment, constraints in unit commitment problem, application of dynamic programming for solving unit commitment problem Hydrothermal scheduling Special characteristics of the hydrothermal scheduling problem, shortterm and long-term scheduling, formulation of the short-term scheduling problem
Power system security Understanding the security problem, major components of security assessment, real-time security assessment, contingency analysis, computation of network sensitivity factors, voltage stability and security, techniques of voltage stability analysis Reactive power dispatch and optimal power flow Reactive power dispatch, classical method, derivation of the exact loss formula for transmission lines, optimal reactive power dispatch using linear programming, methods of reactive power control, optimal power flow, problem formulation for various objectives, security-constrained optimal power flow, multi-contingency voltage stability enhancement, multi-objective optimal power flow Control of generation Overview of the load frequency control problem, development of primemover, generator, turbine and load models, isochronous generators, speed regulation characteristics, load sharing by parallel generators, adjusting speed-droop characteristics, tie-line model, interconnected power system, automatic generation control, generation allocation State estimation Power system monitoring, EMS, SCADA, function of state estimator, maximum likelihood estimation, formulation of the WLS state estimator, DC state estimation, synchronized measurement technology, optimal placement of phasor measurement units, hybrid state estimation incorporating conventional and synchronized measurements, bad data detection and identification
Marks Distribution Mid Sem. Exam I Mid Sem. Exam II End Sem. Exam Assignments Course project Total 10 Marks 10 Marks 40 Marks 10 Marks 30 Marks ---------------100 Marks ----------------