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Offerings
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2024-ONGOING
Requisites
Prerequisite
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Learning activities
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Learning outcomes
1.
Critically appraise the type and performance of a variety of electrical generators, storages and loads and their specifications
2.
Model and calculate the economic operation, stability, control and protection aspects of power systems and smart grids
3.
Analyse the control and protection of inverters in power systems and smart grids
4.
Design and apply the response of some generators, loads, storages and their operation, control and protection systems
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:
- Introduction to various types of electrical generators and their specifications – Diesel, Gas, Coal, Hydro, Combined cycle, Nuclear, renewable
- Introduction to electrical load and demand characteristics
- Introduction to various large-scale energy storages – Batteries and Pumped hydro
- Introduction to various power generation controls in conventional and smart power systems
- Economic operation and Unit Commitment
- Introduction to power system stability
- Introduction to various control techniques for conventional and smart power grids – frequency control, reactive power control, inverter controls
- Introduction to various types of power system protection schemes for generators, lines, cables, transformers, and motors and inverters