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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

311310 (v.2) Power System Optimisation 401

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Area: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Introduction to electricity market (approximately 2 lectures) : market model; open access, grid connection system issues; energy trading; distributed generation, pricing, bids and clearance, need for forecasting; vertically verses horizontally integrated systems; distributed generation network reconfiguration & optimisation (approximately 1 lecture): review of transmission and distribution networks; evaluation of distribution loss; loss minimisation techniques; loss optimisation and network configuration; reliability modelling (approximately 3 lecture): markov models; load duration curve (Annually and weekly); generation capacity ontage; loss of load probability; expected energy not served; unit Commitment and Economic despatch (approximately 3 lectures): lagrange multiplier and gradient search techniques; incremental cost/heat rate; transmission loss modeling; dynamic programming approach to economic dispatch; forecasting model (approximately 3 lecture): Box-Jenkins and time series models; Artificial Intelligent model, Genetic Algorithms, Aritificial Neural Network; econometric and socio-economic models; applications to electricity demand forcasting (daily, weekly, monthly peak load); energy forecasting; substation loads.
Field of Education: 031301 Electrical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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