Advanced Diploma in Electrical Design Engineering

Your complete guide in power system analysis, modelling, load flow and fault studies, for electrical power engineering

Created by: Amr Saleh
Lecturer Assistant, Electrical Engineer, and Researcher

What Will I Learn?

• Realize the structure of the electric power sysyem
• Learn how to draw single line diagram of any power system
• Review of basic electrical concepts
• Different types of powers in power system
• Realize power factor correction
• Complete analysis of three phase power systems
• Difference between delta and star three phase supply and load
• Learn power calculations in three phase systems
• Power factor correction in three phase systems
• Generators in power systems
• Salient pole vs. cylindrical rotor generators
• Generator operation and its equivalent model in power system
• Learn how to assess the performance parameters of synchronous generators
• Realize generator characterstics and its phasor diagram
• Relaize the operation and construction of transformers in power systems
• Learn how to model a transformer in power systems
• Learn how to measure the transformer parameters
• Realize three phase transformer connections and their applications
• Transmission lines in power systems
• Realize the modelling and performance of transmission lines
• Complete analysis of short, medium, and long line models
• Relaize the surge impedance loading (SIL) and its importance
• Realize the per-unit system and its use in analyzing power systems
• Change of Base in per unit system
• Concept and importance of power flow analysis
• Formation of bus admittance matrix and its importance in load flow analysis
• Understand types of buses in power system
• Learn how to obtain load flow equations
• Realize approximate method in power flow analysis
• Learn Gauss-Seidal method in power flow analysis
• Learn DC power flow method in power flow analysis
• Learn how to evaluate the losses and power flow in transmission lines
• Complete analysis of power system faults
• Realize definition, causes, and consequences of electric faults
• analyze the symmetrical faults using thevenin method
• analyze the symmetrical faults using bus impedance matrix
• Learn how to construct bus impedance matrix
• Realize the concept and formulation of symmetrical components method
• Learn how to get the sequence networks for generators, transformers, and transmission lines
• Analysis of (L-G), (L-L), and (L-L-G) faults
• Many MATLAB projects related to power systems

Requirements

• Electrical engineering fundamentals
• Passion to learn power system engineering

Target audience

• Any one having the passion to learn power system engineering from scratch
• Electrical power engineers with an interest in power system analysis