Electric Power Plants Planning and Operation

Објавено: October 12, 2018
  1.    Course Title Electric Power Plants Planning and Operation
  2.    Code 3ФЕИТ04З018
  3.    Study program EEUM
  4.    Organizer of the study program (unit, institute, department) Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies
  5.    Degree (first, second, third cycle) First cycle
  6.    Academic year/semester IV/7   7.    Number of ECTS credits 6.00
  8.    Lecturer Dr Atanas Iliev
  9.    Course Prerequisites

10.    Course Goals (acquired competencies):  Acquisition of expert knowledge for tasks, process and criteria for planning the construction of power facilities depending on the time horizon and in funcion of the development of the power system. Obtaining knowledge about methods for optimial operation of Hydro Power Plants and Thermal Power Plants, as well as for models for optimal operation of power plants in a complex power system.

11.    Course Syllabus: Main tasks, objectives, features,  requirements and challenges in Development of Power System in new market environment. Optimization methods in power engineering: nonlinear programming. Energy characteristics of TPP and HPP. Internal optimization of HPP operation. Optimal operation of  transformer stations. Dynamic programming and its application for determining the expected production of electricity from hydroelectric power plants. Models for optimal operation of power plants in a complex power system – objective function, constraints, problem solving. Operation charts of turbo and hydro generators. Methods for long-term planning, uncertainty, assumptions, simulations. Methods for determining the expected production and costs of thermal power plants – method of combinations of the units, method of equivalent curves. Calculation of the reliability parameters (ENS and LOLP) for power system. Structure of costs, cost-benefit analysis and ways of financing the construction of power facilities. Sensitivity analysis.

12.    Learning methods:  Lectures supported by presentations, interactive lectures, auditory exercises with solving practical examples, individual homeworks.
13.    Total number of course hours 3 + 2 + 0 + 0
14.    Distribution of course hours 180
15.    Forms of teaching 15.1. Lectures-theoretical teaching 45
15.2. Exercises (laboratory, practice classes), seminars, teamwork 30
16.    Other course activities 16.1. Projects, seminar papers 30
16.2. Individual tasks 30
16.3. Homework and self-learning 45
17.    Grading 17.1. Exams 25
17.2. Seminar work/project (presentation: written and oral) 20
17.3. Activity and participation 5
17.4. Final exam 50
18.    Grading criteria (points) up to 50 points     5 (five) (F)
from 51 to 60 points     6 (six) (E)
from 61 to 70 points     7 (seven) (D)
from 71 to 80 points     8 (eight) (C)
from 81 to 90 points     9 (nine) (B)
from 91 to 100 points   10 (ten) (A)
19.    Conditions for acquiring teacher’s signature and for taking final exam Regular attendance on lectures and completion of the homeworks and project assignments
20.    Forms of assessment
 Through two partial written exams (duration of 2 hours each) or a final written exam on the whole teaching material (duration 2 hours). The student should prepare a seminar paper and submit it by the end of the semester. The points from the partial exams/final exam and the prepared seminar paper are included in the final grade.
It is not allowed to use books, scripts, manuscripts or notes of any kind, mobile phone, tablet or any other electronic device during the exam
21.    Language Macedonian and English
22.    Method of monitoring of teaching quality Internal evaluations and surveys
23.    Literature
23.1. Required Literature
No. Author Title Publisher Year
1 М. Calovic, D. Saric Power System Planning BeoPress – Beograd 2005
2 Atanas Iliev Planning of operation and constraction of Power Plants FEET – Skopje 2015
3 Atanas Iliev Selected solved exercises from Planning of Operation and Constraction of Power Plants ЕТФ – Скопје 2002
23.2. Additional Literature
No. Author Title Publisher Year
1 Daniel Kirschen and Goran Strbac  Fundamentals od Power System Economics  John Willey & Sons  2004
2  Hossein Seifi, Mohammad Sadegh Sepasian  Electric Power System Planning  Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg  2011
3  А. Wood, B. Wolenberg Power Generation, Operation and Control  John Wiley & Sons  1998