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Understand The Various Power System Components. Evaluate Fault Currents For Different Types of Faults

This course covers the fundamentals of power systems including modeling and components. The course has 5 modules that cover basic concepts of power systems, components like transmission lines and transformers, over-voltages and insulation, fault analysis and protection schemes, and numerical protection. Students will learn about generation, transmission, distribution and protection of power systems. They will evaluate fault currents, understand over-voltages and insulation coordination, and learn basic and numerical protection schemes. The course aims to provide an understanding of power system concepts, components, faults, and protection.

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Understand The Various Power System Components. Evaluate Fault Currents For Different Types of Faults

This course covers the fundamentals of power systems including modeling and components. The course has 5 modules that cover basic concepts of power systems, components like transmission lines and transformers, over-voltages and insulation, fault analysis and protection schemes, and numerical protection. Students will learn about generation, transmission, distribution and protection of power systems. They will evaluate fault currents, understand over-voltages and insulation coordination, and learn basic and numerical protection schemes. The course aims to provide an understanding of power system concepts, components, faults, and protection.

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Power Systems-I[modeling and componenets]

Course Outcomes:

At the end of this course, students will demonstrate the ability to,

 Understand the concepts of power systems.

 Understand the various power system components.

 Evaluate fault currents for different types of faults.

 Understand the generation of over-voltages and insulation coordination.

 Understand basic protection schemes.

Module 1: Basic Concepts (4 hours)

Evolution of Power Systems and Present-Day Scenario. Structure of a power system: Bulk
Power Grids and Micro-grids. Generation: Conventional and Renewable Energy Sources.
Distributed Energy Resources.Energy Storage. Transmission and Distribution Systems: Line
diagrams, transmission and distribution voltage levels and topologies (meshed and radial
systems). Synchronous Grids and Asynchronous (DC) interconnections. Review of Three-phase
systems. Analysis of simple three-phase circuits. Power Transfer in AC circuits and Reactive
Power.

Module 2: Power System Components (15 hours)


Overhead Transmission Lines and Cables: Electrical and Magnetic Fields around
conductors, Corona. Parameters of lines and cables. Travelling-wave Equations. Sinusoidal
Steady state representation of Lines: Short, medium and long lines. Power Transfer, Voltage
profile and Reactive Power.Characteristics of transmission lines. Surge Impedance Loading.
Series and Shunt Compensation of transmission lines.
Transformers: Three-phase connections and Phase-shifts. Three-winding transformers, auto-
transformers, Neutral Grounding transformers. Tap-Changing in transformers.Transformer
Parameters. Single phase equivalent of three-phase transformers.
Synchronous Machines: Steady-state performance characteristics. Operation when connected
to infinite bus. Real and Reactive Power Capability Curve of generators. Typical waveform
under balanced terminal short circuit conditions – steady state, transient and sub-transient
equivalent circuits. Loads: Types, Voltage and Frequency Dependence of Loads. Per-unit
System and per-unit calculations.

Module 3: Over-voltages and Insulation Requirements (4 hours)

Generation of Over-voltages: Lightning and Switching Surges. Protection against Over-


voltages, Insulation Coordination. Propagation of Surges, lighting arresters, surge aresters.
Voltages produced by traveling surges. Bewley Diagrams,Ground wire, protector tube.

Module 4: Fault Analysis and Protection Systems (10 hours)

Method of Symmetrical Components (positive, negative and zero sequences). Balanced and
Unbalanced Faults. Representation of generators, lines and transformers in sequence networks.
Computation of Fault Currents. Neutral Grounding.
Switchgear: Types of Circuit Breakers. Attributes of Protection schemes, Back-up Protection.
Protection schemes (Over-current, directional, distance protection, differential protection) and
their application. Earthing switches,
Module 5:
NUMERICAL PROTECTION
Introduction, Block Diagram of a Numerical Relay, Numerical over current Protection,
Numerical Transformer Differential protection, Numerical distance protection of Transmission
line, Software and Hardware

SUGGESTED TEXT BOOKS:

1. Ravindranath.B and Chander.N, “Power System Protection and Switchgear”, New Age
International 2014.
2. Chakrabarti .A, Soni .M.L, Gupta .P.V, “A text book on power system Engineering”, Dhanpat
rai & Co. pvt. Ltd., 2009.
3. Y.G.Paithankar and S.R.Bhinde, “Fundamentals of power system protection”, PHI, New
Delhi, 2010.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Wadhwa C.L., “Electrical Power Systems”, New Age International Pvt. Ltd., Publishers, 2010
6th Edition.
2. Patra S.P., Basu S.K. and Chowduri S., “Power systems Protection”, Oxford and IBH
Publishing Co, 1983.
3. Sunil.S.Rao, “Switchgear Protection and power systems”, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi, 3rd
Edition, 2008.

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES:

 Study of relays & Study of protection scheme, solid state relays.


 To understand instrument transformer and accuracy.
 To understand the method of circuit breaking various arc theories Acing phenomena
capacitive and inductive breaking

Course Designer: Mr.M.Mahendran


Email id:[email protected]

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