Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

302020 (v.2) Electrical Utility Engineering 513


Area: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 2.5
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2.5 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Power flow calculations: single line diagram and per unit calculations, load flow data requirement, type of buses, Gauss-Seidel, Newton-Raphson and decoupled load flow, DC load flow, use of interactive PC based commercial load flow package and modelling of load, overhead lines, underground cables, transformers, top charges and reactive devices. Fault calculations: symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault calculations, symmetrical components, positive, negative and zero sequence equivalent circuits, Thevenin and computer method of fault calculations, single line-to-ground, line-to-line, line-to-line-to-ground and three-phase fault calculations using an interactive simulation package, DC offset and fault MVA calculations. Power system grounding.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 031301 Electrical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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