311310 (v.2) Power System Optimisation 401

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
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 integratedsystems; 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; ArtificialIntelligent 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.
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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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