Syllabus
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Course Code: EI -PE-403 Course Name: Program Elective- IV - (iv) Power Quality and FACTS |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Introduction: Power quality-voltage quality, power quality terms, power quality evaluation procedures term and definitions, general classes of power quality problems, transients, long duration voltage variation, short duration voltage variations, voltage imbalance, waveform distortion. | |
| 2 | Voltage sags and interruptions: Sources of sags and interruptions, estimating voltage sag performance, fundamental principles of protection, motor starting sags. Transient over voltages: Fundamentals of harmonics, Harmonic distortion, voltage harmonic indexes, harmonic sources from commercial loads, harmonic sources from Industrial loads, effects of harmonic distortion, intra harmonics. Distributed generation and power quality: DG technologies, interface to utility system, power quality issues. |
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| 3 | FACTS Concept and General System Considerations: Transmission Interconnections, Flow of Power in an AC System, Power Flow and Dynamic Stability Basic Types of FACTS Controllers, Brief Description and Definitions of FACTS Controllers, Static Shunt Compensators: Objectives of Shunt Compensation - Midpoint Voltage Regulation for Line Segmentation, End of Line Voltage Support to Prevent Voltage Instability, Improvement of Transient Stability Thyristor Controlled Reactor. |
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| 4 | Static Series Compensators: Objectives of Series Compensation, Concept of Series Capacitive Compensation, Voltage Stability, Improvement of Transient Stability. GTO Thyristor-Controlled Series Capacitor, Thyristor-Switched Series Capacitor, Thyristor-Controlled Series Capacitor, The Static synchronous Series Compensator. | |
