Course: Design and Modeling of Powert Plants and Electrical Substations
Code: 3ФЕИТ04018
ECTS points: 6 ECTS
Number of classes per week: 3+0+0+3
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Atanas Iliev
Course Goals (acquired competencies): Acquiring knowledge for designing high voltage power facilities: hydroelectric power plants, thermal power plants and electrical substations. The ability to use modern techniques, methods and computer software during design, modeling, optimization and simulation of processes in power plants and electrical substations.
Course Syllabus: Modern methods for designing the Power Plants and Electrical Substations. Phases in the design process. Analysis of project parameters. Preparation of variants of project solutions. Technical and economic criteria for evaluation of variant solutions. Application of technical standards in the design process. Calculation of short-circuit current and sizing of equipment in power plants and electrical substations. Reliability of schemes of electrical substations. Designing a grounding system. Cases for analysis: a hydroelectric power plant project, high voltage substations. Application software for design and modeling of the power plants and electrical substations. Mathematical methods and techniques for modeling and visualization processes in thepower plants and electrical substations. Statistical analyzes in power engineering. Modeling the operation of the power plants in a complex power system. Determining the optimal number of units in operation at HPP. Optimal Power Flow. Application of fuzzy logic and neural networks in the power engineering.
Literature:
Required Literature |
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Nasser D. Tleis | Power Systems Modelingand Fault Analyses | Elsevier Ltd | 2008 |
Additional Literature |
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Brian Hahn, Daniel Valentine | Essential Matlab for Engineers and Scientists | Elsevier Ltd | 2007 |
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Mohamed El-Hawary | Electric Power Applications of Fuzzy Systems | IEEE Press | 2008 |