Power System Analysis II

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Power System Analysis II follows up the material from Power System Analysis I with more details on the analysis and calculation during faults or transients. Students will understand symmetrical faults such as three-phase and single-phase short circuits. Next, symmetrical components in power system will be introduced and impedance loads, series impedances, three-phase transmission lines, rotating machines, and transformers will be modeled. This course (Power System Analysis II) helps students to understand unsymmetrical faults such as single line to ground, double line to ground, and line to line faults. Furthermore, students will understand how to analyze the power system components under different fault conditions. Protection and relaying play an important role in a power system. Having equipment such as generators or transformers in power grids, engineers and power system planners should protect these expensive devices from faults or any transients. Relays and breakers are the best tools for protection. Relays sense the currents/voltages in multiple locations. If the measured current/voltage is not within the limit, they send the command to the breakers to disconnect the circuit and protect the equipment. Students in Power System Analysis II will analyze the protection devices and operation principles of relays. The last topic in this course is the transient stability of synchronous machines using equivalent dynamic model and generator control. This course will help students to model the generators in power systems and apply various control mechanisms such as: voltage, frequency, or power control to the synchronous generator model.