2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ELEC 4437 - Electrical Power Systems


Prerequisites: ELEC 2235 ELEC 2247 .  Changing power systems landscape, electric energy sources including renewable and various distributed generation (DG), environmental consequences of the electrical energy, AC transmission lines and cables, power flow in transmission networks, loadability of transmission lines, transformers, High Voltage DC (HVDC) transmission lines, power electronics devices and their applications, power quality and power factor, synchronous generators, voltage regulation and stability, peak load issues, ways to prevent voltage collapses, dynamic stability, automatic generation control (AGC). To reinforce the concepts, the course will utilize a number of tools such as PSCAD, POWER WORLD, EMTDC, MATLAB. 3 credits.