302500 (v.3) Advanced Electrical Engineering 403

Area:

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0

** 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 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Other Requisite(s):

Admission: into honours year or double degree

Syllabus:

Power System Stability and Control - short, medium, and long term stability, modelling of components, dynamic equations, linearisation of models, computer simulation, contingency evaluation, super-conductor applications in stability improvements. Modal analysis in transmission systems - single mode propagation, multi-conductor transmission systems, multi-mode propagation, travelling waves in multi-conductor systems, numerical computation. Power quality and harmonics - power definitions in three phase circuits, ridge rectifier harmonics, cyclo-converters. Power system operation and planning - power system reliability, state estimation, optimal power flow and VAR planning, load forecasting, load management.

** 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:

31300 Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Technology (Narrow Grouping)

HECS Band (if applicable):

Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information:

Informational

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Area External	Central External
2004	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area