Course: Transmission and distribution grids

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Course title Transmission and distribution grids
Course code KEE/PDS
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Tesařová Miloslava, Doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Lectures: 1. Concept of electrical power system, its parts and relation between them, power system control, electrical networks - types, performance characteristics, neutral earthing arrangement and application, construction and performance characteristics of network elements 2. Transmission system - performance characteristics, cooperation with adjacent power systems, trends and topical problems 3. Distribution system - performance characteristics according to voltage level, cooperation with transmission system, trends and topical problems 4. Industrial electrical grids - specifics, connection of industrial plants to distribution system, basic concept of industrial supply systems, requirements on supply availability, back-up supply, examples of industrial grid topology 5. Fault conditions in power system - concept of power system protection, short-circuit conditions, reduction of short-circuits and their effects, rating of equipment with respect of short-circuit effects 6. Fault conditions in power system - earth faults - detailed analysis of currents and voltages, fault identification and location 7. Power quality - definition, standard EN 50 160, voltage characteristics, causes of voltage waveform disturbances, impact of lower voltage quality on industrial equipment, voltage-tolerance curves 8. Interruptions - causes, indices of continuity of supply SAIDI, SAIFI, MAIFI, incentive-based quality regulation, improvement of indices 9. Voltage quality - voltage variations, causes, effects, evaluation, voltage regulation in distribution system, impact of decentralized generation on voltage profile 10. Voltage quality - voltage dips, fluctuations, unbalance - causes, effects, evaluation, mitigation 11. Voltage quality - harmonics - causes, effects, evaluation, mitigation, impact of harmonics on compensation capacitors 12. Power factor correction in industrial networks - types of PFC equipment, selection of appropriate of PFC equipment, incentive invoicing of reactive energy 13. Connection of equipment (electricity generation and accumulation facilities, disturbing installations) in distribution system - connectivity requests, network disturbances (voltage quality, power flows in distribution networks) Tutorials: General procedure of supply network design Maximum demand of industrial plant or its parts Power factor correction (PFC) - PFC equipment and their location, calculation of PFC equipment output Short-circuit currents in industrial networks - calculation of 3-phase short-circuit current, contribution of motors to short-circuit current Rating of supply system components (cable and transformer sizing) Assessment of network disturbances caused by special industrial equipment and generation facilities - procedure, selection of mitigation techniques

Learning activities and teaching methods
Laboratory work, Lecture
  • Contact hours - 65 hours per semester
  • Team project (50/number of students) - 25 hours per semester
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 5 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 35 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 20 hours per semester
  • unspecified - 45 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to describe concept of electrical power system, its parts and relation between them
to describe operation of power system with regard to neutral earthing
to compare reliability and other performance characteristics of overhead lines and underground cables, and electric network arrangements
to define parameters of network elements, to draw up their equivalent circuits
to draw up time behavior of a short-circuit current with maximum DC part, to analyze parts of a short-circuit current, to define short-circuit currents (initial symmetrical, peak, thermal)
to explain principles of fundamental protection devices
to distinguish the type of a switch according its switching capability and describe its application
to explain principle of power factor correction (PFC) and its benefits
to define quantities in power systems under non-sinusoidal conditions, to describes effects of harmonics
to explain origin of resonances in power systems and their applications, e.g. in passive single-tuned filters
Skills
to identify the way of neutral earthing on the basis of voltage and current conditions during a line-to-ground fault
to calculate conductor resistance, currents and complex power in AC circuits, power factor, efficiency, energy
to calculate power, current and voltage conditions in simple networks (one-side fed radial networks) in steady state
to calculate initial short-circuit current and power during 3-phase short-circuit fault
to size cross-section of a conductor and to make initial proposal of transformer installed capacity
Competences
N/A
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to describe concept of electrical power system and hierarchy of power system control, performance characteristics of transmission and distribution systems, trends and topical problems
to specify and compare reliability and other performance characteristics of network elements, to compare supply reliability and other performance characteristics of of EHV, HV, MV and LV networks, to give reasons for different way of system earthing and to compare dis-/advantages of system earthing arrangements
to explain aspects determining basis concept of industrial supply systems, to give specifics of industrial electrical grids
to explain concept of power system protection and principles of fault identification and location, give reasons for currents and voltage conditions during short-circuit and earth
to estimate impact of network elements on short-circuit current and its effects and to consider possibilities of their reduction
to define term Power Quality and voltage characteristics, to present causes of power quality disturbances
to describe impact of voltage quality on industrial equipment respectively impact disturbing equipment on supply voltage, to give examples of sensitive and disturbing equipments
to distinguish voltage characteristics, to describe causes of their disturbances, negative impacts on supply network and equipment, to assess application of various mitigation techniques
to explain principle of voltage regulation by means of transformers with tap changer, impact of decentralized generation on voltage profile and means for its reduction
to define requests for connection of equipment to distribution networks, to explain the impact of local sources on voltage quality and power flows across networks
Skills
to design basic concept of supply system with respect to requirements on power supply systems (power supply availability)
to calculate maximum demand of industrial plant or its parts
to calculate output of back-up source
to select number and output of transformers in substations and to draft operating mode of the transformers with respect to operational energy losses
to design power-factor correction/compensation, to select appropriate compensation equipment and its location, to calculate its output
to calculate 3-phase short-circuit currents in industrial networks
to rate main feeders/cables
to assess network disturbances caused by special industrial equipment and generation facilities, to select appropriate of mitigation technique
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
E-learning
Skills
Practicum
Individual study
Competences
Individual study
Lecture
assessment methods
Knowledge
Combined exam
Skills
Test
Project
Competences
Combined exam
Project
Recommended literature
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  • PNE 33 3430-0 - Výpočetní hodnocení zpětných vlivů odběratelů distribučních soustav.
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