COURSE CONTENTS

0. Preliminaries

1. Overview of the Electrical Power System

    • A Virtual tour

2. The balanced Three-phase system

    • The wye and the delta connection
    • Single-phase and three-phase power
    • Practical applications,

1.The flicker problem

2. Power factor correction

3. Short circuit calculation

3. The transformer

    • Purpose
    • Construction
    • Hysteresis and eddy currents
    • Equivanlent circuit
    • The wye and delta connection
    • Harmonics
    • Per unit system of calculation

4. The Induction Motor

    • Construction 
    • The revolving magnetic field
    • Equivalent circuit
    • Power flow and characteristics
    • Starting
    • As a break, motor, generator
    • Single-phase induction motor

5. The synchronous Machine(Motor and Generator)

    • Construction
    • Synchronous reactance
    • Equivalent circuit
    • Rotor: cylindrical ,salient pole
    • Synchronous generator connected to an infinite bus
    • Motor V curves
    • Power factor control

5. The DC Motor

    • Construction
    • Production of torque
    • Equivalent circuit, shunt and series
    • Machine equation
    • Speed-torque characteristics

6. Conductor Parameters and Transmission Lines

    • Use of tables
    • A,B,C,D constants
    • The short line
    • The medium length line
    • The long line

7. The Load Flow Problem

    • Bus admittance matrix
    • A non-linear problem and its solution

8. The Unbalanced Three-phase System

    • Symmetrical components
    • Single line to ground fault
    • Double line to ground fault

9. Power System Operation

    • Steady state stability-power transfer equation
    • Transient stability- the swing equation
    • Equal area criteria for stability
    • Voltage stability
    • Thermal constraints
    • Power system protection

10. Electrical Safety

11. Review