LESSON PLAN

Faculty Name

Designation:

Subject Name

POWER SYSTEM OPERATION

Department: EEE
Code
: EE2401

Year
Degree & Branch

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AND CONTROL
IV
B.E. E.E.E.

Semester
Section

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VII
A&B

AIM:
To understand the day to day operation of power system and the control actions to be implemented
on the system to meet the minute-to-minute variation of system load demand.
OBJECTIVES:

To have an overview of power system operation and control.

To model power-frequency dynamics and to design power-frequency controller.
To model reactive power-voltage interaction and the control actions to be implemented for
maintaining the voltage profile against varying system load.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION
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System load variation - load characteristics - load curves and load-duration curve (daily, weekly and
annual) - load factor - diversity factor. Importance of load forecasting and simple techniques of forecasting.
An overview of power system operation and control and the role of computers in the implementation.
(Qualitative treatment with block diagram).
UNIT II REAL POWER - FREQUENCY CONTROL
9
Basics of speed governing mechanism and modeling - speed-load characteristics load sharing between two
synchronous machines in parallel. Control area concept LFC control of a single-area system. Static and
dynamic analysis of uncontrolled and controlled cases. Integration of economic dispatch control with LFC.
Two-area system modeling - static analysis of uncontrolled case - tie line with frequency bias control of
two-area system - state variable model.
UNIT III REACTIVE POWERVOLTAGE CONTROL
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Basics of reactive power control. Excitation systems modeling. Static and dynamic analysis - stability
compensation - generation and absorption of reactive power. Relation
between voltage, power and reactive power at a node - method of voltage control tap changing transformer.
System level control using generator voltage magnitude setting,
tap setting of OLTC transformer and MVAR injection of switched capacitors to maintain
acceptable voltage profile and to minimize transmission loss.
UNIT IV COMMITMENT AND ECONOMIC DISPATCH
9
Statement of economic dispatch problem cost of generation incremental cost curve - co-ordination
equations without loss and with loss, solution by direct method and - iteration method. (No derivation of
loss coefficients). Statement of Unit Commitment problem constraints; spinning reserve, thermal unit
constraints, hydro constraints, fuel constraints and other constraints. Solution methods - Priority-list methods
- forward dynamic programming approach. Numerical problems only in priority-list method using full-load
average production cost.

UNIT V COMPUTER CONTROL OF POWER SYSTEMS

Need of computer control of power systems. Concept of energy control centre (or) load dispatch centre and
the functions - system monitoring - data acquisition and control. System hardware configuration SCADA
and EMS functions. Network topology state estimation - security analysis and control. Various operating
states (Normal, alert, emergency, in-extremis and restorative). State transition diagram showing various state
transitions and control strategies.
TEXT BOOKS
1. Allen. J. Wood and Bruce F. Wollenberg, Power Generation, Operation and Control,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003.
2. Chakrabarti & Halder, Power System Analysis: Operation and Control, Prentice Hall
of India, 2004 Edition.
REFERENCES
1. D.P. Kothari and I.J. Nagrath, Modern Power System Analysis, Third Edition, Tata
McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited, New Delhi, 2003. (For Chapters 1, 2 & 3)
2. L.L. Grigsby, The Electric Power Engineering, Hand Book, CRC Press & IEEE
Press, 2001.
3. Hadi Saadat, Power System Analysis, (For the chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4)11th Reprint
2007.
4. P.Kundur, Power System Stability and Control MC Craw Hill Publisher, USA, 1994.
5. Olle.I.Elgerd, Electric Energy Systems theory An introduction Tata McGraw Hill
Publishing Company Ltd. New Delhi, Second Edition 2003.

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Sunil S. Rao, Switchgear and Protection, Khanna publishers, New Delhi, 1986 .
V.K.Mehta & Rohit Mehta,Principles of Power System,S.Chand &Company ltd,2004.
M.L. Soni, P.V. Gupta, V.S. Bhatnagar, A. Chakrabarti, A Text Book on Power System
Engineering, Dhanpat Rai & Co., 1998.

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load characteristics

load curves
load-duration curve -daily, weekly and
annual
load factor, Diversity factor

Problems-To draw load curve and load

duration curve (tutorial)
Problems-To find out maximum
demand, Average load, Units generated,
load factor(tutorial)
Problems-Diversity factor, plant use

factor, Plant capacity factor(tutorial)

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Importance of load forecasting and
simple techniques of forecasting.
Importance of load forecasting and
simple techniques of forecasting.
An overview of power system operation
and control and the role of computers in
the
implementation.
(Qualitative
treatment with block diagram).
An overview of power system operation
and control and the role of computers in
the
implementation.
(Qualitative
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UNIT III REACTIVE
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Single area system - Problems(tutorial)
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Integration of economic dispatch

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control with LFC.

Two-area system modeling
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changing transformer.
System level control using generator
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UNIT IV COMMITMENT AND
ECONOMIC DISPATCH
Statement of economic dispatch
problem cost of generation
incremental cost curve - co-ordination
equations without loss and with loss,

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Solution by direct method

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Solution by direct method

Problems(tutorial)
- iteration method. (No derivation of
loss coefficients).
-iteration method, without lossProblems(tutorial)
-iteration method, without lossProblems(tutorial)
-iteration method, with lossProblems(tutorial)
-iteration method, with lossProblems(tutorial)

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UNIT V COMPUTER CONTROL

OF POWER SYSTEMS
Need of computer control of power
systems. Concept of energy control
centre (or) load dispatch centre and the
functions

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Need of computer control of power

systems. Concept of energy control
centre (or) load dispatch centre and the
functions

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System monitoring
Data acquisition and control.
System hardware configuration

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SCADA and EMS functions.

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SCADA and EMS functions

SCADA and EMS functions

Network topology

Network topology
determination(tutorial)

State estimation

Security analysis and control. Various

operating states (Normal, alert,
emergency, in-extremis and restorative).
State transition diagram showing
various state transitions and control
strategies.

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