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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

Note

Tutition Patterns

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.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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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

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        

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