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Courses Handbook 2013

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2013.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2012.

302142 (v.2) Electrical Utility Engineering 623

Area: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Power systems stability: modelling of system components, automatic voltage regulators (AVRs), governors, generators, turbines, motors, loads, exciters and stabilisers. Critical clearing time using equal area criterion, stability calculations using an interactive package, load shedding, steady state and transient stability, short, medium and long-term dynamics study of system stability under network fault and disturbances. Effect of gains, damping and inertia on stability. Programmable logic controller (PLC) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). Design: introduction to PLCs, PLC programming languages, simple PLC controllers, introduction to SCADA, simple SCADA system design. Contract administration and contract types, supply only, turnkey contracts, performance guaranteed, services and maintenance, contracts, periodic supply and services. Conditions of contracts, terms of payment and security money, quality assurances and retention conditions. Special contract conditions. Penalty for violation of contracts. Tender and pre-tender negotiations. Evaluation of tenders, variations, binding contracts, bids, tender evaluation and acceptance and legal aspects in contract, dispute handling, extension and future provisions.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 031301 Electrical Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2013 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

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