Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2024-2024
MURDOCH-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

Requisites

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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 and response dynamics

2.

Analyse contingencies, economic dispatch, unit commitment, stability, and reliability in electrical power systems

3.

Analyse various active and reactive power, frequency and voltage control methods in electrical power systems

4.

Design various suitable protection schemes and their coordination for electrical network assets (generators, substations, transformers, lines, loads)

5.

Proficiently use various power system modelling and analysis software tools for the analysis of a power system

6.

Communicate with engineering teams and apply theoretical and technical knowledge

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:
  • Various types of electrical generators and their dynamic response and specifications – Diesel, Gas, Coal, Hydro, Combined cycle, Nuclear, renewable
  • Electrical load and demand characteristics
  • Various large-scale energy storage systems
  • Various active and reactive power generation controls in electrical power systems
  • Economic operation of the electrical power system and unit commitment of generators
  • Power system stability, reliability, and contingency studies
  • Various active power, reactive power, voltage and frequency control techniques for electrical power systems
  • Various types of power system protection schemes for generators, lines, cables, transformers, and motors and inverters