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302142 (v.2) Electrical Utility Engineering 623
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Credits: |
25.0 |
| Contact Hours: |
3.0 |
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| ** 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. ** |
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| Lecture: |
1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
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| Syllabus: |
Power systems stability - modelling of system components, AVR's, 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. PLC and SCADA. Design - introduction to PLC's, PLC programming languages, simple PLC controllers, introduction to SCADA, simple SCADA system design. Contract administration - contract types, supply only, turn key contracts, 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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| ** 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. ** |
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| Field of Education: | 31301 Electrical Engineering | | Funding Cluster: | 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying | | SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information | | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
Availability |
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Internal |
Partially Online Internal |
Area External |
Central External |
Fully Online |
| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Semester 1 |
Y |
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| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Semester 2 |
Y |
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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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