EEL4216 Fundamentals of

Electric Power Systems

Lecture 1 - Introduction

Dr. Wei Sun

HEC 306, [email protected]
Spring 2017, ECE Dept.
About Me

Office: HEC 306

Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~weisun/
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Outline
Go through Course Syllabus
Course Motivation
What is power system?
How is power industry in U.S.?
What will we learn in this course?
Next Class

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 Textbook
J. D. Glover, M. S. Sarma, and T. J. Overbye,
Power System Analysis and Design, 5th Edition,
2011
Other references

J. J. Grainger and W. D. A. R. Bergen, and V. A. J. Wood, B. F. Wollenberg, P. Kundur, Power

Stevenson, Power System Vittal, Power System Power generation, operation system stability and
Analysis, McGraw Hill, Analysis, 2nd ed., and control, 2nd ed., John control, McGraw
1994. Prentice Hall, 2000. Wiley & Sons, 1996 Hill, 1994.
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Course Targets
Fundamental concepts in power system analysis
From Physical Background To Mathematical Models

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Introduction to Electric
Power Systems
Electrical Energy
Electrical Power Engineering deals with:
Energy conversion Generator and Motor
Transmit to the end user Transmission and Distribution
Transform to various types of energy Load
Each system has its own characteristics
Different systems have similarities
Generation Transmission Distribution
Load

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How Does Power System Work?

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 SAFE
RELIABLE
ECONOMICAL
EXPANDABLE

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Power Plants
Fossil fuels
Oil, Gas ,Coal
Nuclear
Renewables
Hydropower, Wind,
Biomass, Solar

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Energy Resources for Electricity
Generation

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Transmission Substations

Transformers

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Power System Control Center

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 How to Control Power Systems ?
Remote
terminal
unit (RTU)
Substation
Communication link

SCADA Master Station

Energy control center with EMS Control
(Energy Management System) Signal

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Power Grid in U.S.

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 Power Regulator Agencies
FERC (Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission)
Regulate wholesale price
of electricity, nature gas
Impose mandatory
reliability standards and
penalties
NERC (North American
Electric Reliability
Corporation)
Ensure the reliability of
the North American bulk
power system
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RTO & ISO
RTO
Regional Transmission Organization
Large interstate areas, high voltage level, bulk transmission grid

ISO
Independent System Operator
Single or several states, wholesale market, reliability planning
Midcontinent ISO (MISO)
ISO New England (ISO-NE)
PJM Interconnection (PJM)
Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO)
California Independent System Operator (CAISO)
Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)
New Brunswick System Operator (NBSO)
New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)
Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)
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Electricity Price

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AC/DC Hybrid: a Future Grid?

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Hiring Companies
Power utilities, e.g.
IOU (Xcel Energy, MidAmerican
Energy)
Cooperative (Florida Electric
Cooperatives Association)
Public Power (Orlando Utilities
Commission)
Independent System Operators (ISO)
/ Regional Transmission Operators
(RTO)
PJM, SPP, ISO New England, NYISO,
Midcontinent ISO, CAISO and ERCOT

Positions: planning/operation engineers

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Resources at UCF
Power Faculty
Zhihua Qu, Aleksandar Dimitrovski, Wei Sun, Qun
Zhou, Robert Reedy
FEEDER Center
http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/FEEDER/
Siemens Digital Grid Lab
HEC 302
OPAL-RT hardware, SEL relays, Omicron
amplifier, and NI Programmable PMU
Siemens software and hardware
IEEE Power & Energy Society
UCF Student Chapter

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Power Courses at UCF
EEL 4216 Fund. Of Electric Power Systems
EEL 4205 Electric Machinery
EEL 4XXX Introduction to Smart Grids
EEL 4XXX Global Energy Issues
EEL 5245 Power Electronics I
EEL 5268 Communications and Networking for Smart Grid
EEL 5291 Distributed Control and Optimization for Smart Grid
EEL 6255/5XXX Advanced Power Systems Analysis
EEL 5XXX Power System Economics
EEL 6208 Advanced Machines
EEL 6246 Power Electronics II
EEL 6269 Advanced Topics in Power Engineering
EEL 6272 Smart Power Grids Protection
EEL 6XXX Data Analytics in Power System
EEL 6XXX Power System Resilience
EEL 6XXX Power System Reliability
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This Course
What Will We Learn In This Course?
Basic concepts
Introduction
Phasors, 3 phase circuit
Power system network modelling
Transformers
Transmission line (generator/load)
Steady-state analysis
Power flow analysis
Fault analysis
Symmetrical / unsymmetrical faults
Protection
Dynamic issues
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 What Will We Discuss In This
Course?

Normal Normal
fault clear fault
operating operating
conditions conditions

Network modeling Fault analysis Protection

Power flow analysis Dynamic issue Generator control

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Power Flow Analysis

Given knowledge of the real and reactive demands,

the real power generation, and the generator
terminal voltages, together with the network
topology, compute the reactive power generation
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Fault Analysis
Power systems: What can go wrong?
Lightning
Wind and snow
Deterioration (insulation failure)
Animals (mainly squirrels & snakes, but sometimes.)

The status of systems during and after faults

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Lightning Induced Flashover!

Wind and Snow

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Too Fast?

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Power System Stability
Power System Dynamics system
behavior under disturbances (large or
small):
Principles;
modeling analysis;
control, (protection, supervision, ) counter measures;
Significant role in system secure operation

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DEMO of Power World Simulator
(PWS)
Use tools to model
Generator (synchronous)
Transmission Lines
Transformers
Loads

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purchase/demo-software

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Closure
Information of this course
Power industry in U.S.
Topics in this course

Next lecture, we will review Phasors

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