302023 (v.2) Electrical Utility Engineering 523

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 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: contract types, supply only, turnkeycontracts, performance guaranteed, services and maintenance contracts, periodic supply and services, conditions of contracts, terms of payment and security money, quality assurances, 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.
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Field of Education:	031301 Electrical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

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