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EE 368 — Power Systems Analysis

BSc BSc Electrical/Electronic Engineering · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Load Flow Analysis: Formation of a.c. load flow equations. Gauss-Seidel iterative method of solution. Cartesian and polar forms of load flow equations, formation of the jacobian matrix and solution using the Newton-Raphson method. Digital computer study of load flow. Fault Analysis: Causes of faults, types of faults, 3-phase symmetrical fault calculations, unsymmetrical shunt and series fault calculations. Simultaneous faults. Applications to digital computation. Operation and Control: Characteristics of governors and their operation, speed changer settings, load-sensitive components of a power station, load-frequency characteristics, Exciter characteristics, block diagram representation of voltage control systems, voltage and reactive power control. Stability: Equal area criterion and solution of differential equations.

Credits
3
Level
Year Three

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Course details from Details of Syllabus - Department of Electrical Engineering, KNUST.