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Power System Automation and Control, 5 Higher education credits

Automation och styrning i kraftsystem, 5 Högskolepoäng

Established: 2024-02-15

Established by: Department of Engineering Science

Applies from: H25

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

Knowledge and understanding

• explain how an increased automation at fault clearing in the power system can lead to less and shorter disturbances for the customers.
• explain how an increased automation using different wide area protections based on voltage, frequency or load flow can decrease the risk of severe disturbances and enable a more efficient operation of the power system.
• explain how an increased automation and control of production and consumption based on economic incentives gives a lower cost for the customers.
• explain how the active and reactive power can be controlled for loads and energy storages to provide support to the grid at different voltage levels.

Competence and skills

• design different types of control in the grid to improve the power supply for the customers and enable a more efficient operation of the grid.
• obtain the dimensioning criteria and design control of consumption, inhouse production and energy storage to optimize the economic outcome for different types of customers.
• design different types of control to support the distribution system, the sub-transmission system and the transmission system.

Judgement and approach

• evaluate how different types of increased automation and control can improve the power supply for the customers.
• evaluate how different types of control of loads and energy storages can decrease the costs for customers and grid owners.
• evaluate if different types of wide area protections can be an efficient tool to use in the power system.

Entry requirements

Bachelor's degree with a major in Electrical Engineering or equivalent. The first-cycle program shall include at least 3 credits in programming and 15 credits in mathematics. English 6.

You also need approved result from the following course/courses: EKS700-Electric Power System and ELE700-Electricity Production and Energy Storage, or the equivalent.

The forms of assessment of student performance

Individual written assignment. Oral presentation in group. Group laboratory.

Course contents

The course covers automation and control in the power system and gives an understanding of different types of automated control in the power system and how these processes contribute to a robust power system. Topics included in the course are:

• automation for fault clearing in the grid to decrease the duration of outages and disturbances in distribution system, the sub-transmission system and the transmission system.
• control of active and reactive power in energy storage systems to enable a more efficient use of the transmission capacity in the power system.
• automation and control of production, energy storage and HVDC to provide different kinds of wide area protections based on voltage, frequency or load flow in the power system.
• active power control of loads and energy storage for economic optimization based on spot prize, grid connection fee, inhouse consumption, inhouse production and inhouse energy storage.
• control of loads and local energy storage in different locations in the power system, public buildings and industries.
• control of loads and local energy storage to provide different kinds of support to the power system at local, regional and national levels. The support has durations from seconds up to hours.

Other regulations

Course grading: F/Fx/E/D/C/B/A - Insufficient, Insufficient- more work required before the credit can be awarded, Sufficient, Satisfactory, Good, Very Good, Excellent

Course language: The teaching is conducted in English.

General rules pertaining to examination at University West are available at www.hv.se.

If the student has a decision/recommendation on special support due to disability, the examiner has the right to examine the student in a customized examination form.

Cycle

Second cycle

Progressive specialization

A1F - second cycle, has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Main field of study

Electrical Engineering