Design and Power Plant Automation (ETF EEO PAEEP 5960)

General information

Module title

Design and Power Plant Automation

Module code

ETF EEO PAEEP 5960

Study

ETF-B

Department

Electric Power Engineering

Year

2

Semester

3

Module type

Mandatory

ECTS

6

Hours

60

Lectures

35

Exercises

15

Tutorials

10

Module goal - Knowledge and skill to be achieved by students
  Introduction to the basic characteristics and purposes of electric power plants; designing power plants; use of CAD design tools; protection and power plant automation; integration of systems of protection and management system; power plants monitoring; power plant security.
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After finishing this course students should be able to develop and design complex electro power plants (with the assistance of modern software tools).
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Syllabus
  General characteristics and uses of electric power plants; conventional high-voltage sub-stations; metal-shielded substations; hybrid substations; special-purpose facilities; plants for powering railways and other transport systems.
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Designing power plants; selection of equipment and configurations; computer-aided design; use of CAD tools; grounding systems design and lightning arrester system protection; voltage step and touch.
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Protection and power plant automation; choosing system security; digital security; integration of protection systems and control systems; data transfer safety.
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Plants for transmission of DC voltage; FACTS plants; plants for nonconventional energy sources.
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Electric power plants monitoring; power plants security.
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Literature
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Didactic methods
  Course lessons are taught by the professor in lecture halls, and followed by demonstration and solving of practical examples and mathematical equations/graphs. Additionally, students spend time on tutorials and lab-exercises. They resolve specific problems pertaining to their theses, using available or student-developed software. Goal of these activities is to enable students to get hands-on, practical experience in this area, as well as to gauge students' knowledge through assigned papers and exams (mid-term, as well as final).
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Exams
  During the course students earn points according to the following system:
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- Attending classes and tutorials: 10 points; a student with more than three absences from lectures and/or tutorials will not be eligible to get these points.
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- Home assignments, laboratory reports and/or final thesis: maximum of 10 points.
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- Mid-term and final exams: a student can score up to 20 points on each exam (passing grade is 10 points).
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During each of the two exams (time assigned is 90 minutes) students will solve simple questions – designed to examine whether students acquired basic theoretical knowledge –multiple choice problems, as well as one open-answer problem. Students who gain less than 20 points during one semester must re-take that course.
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Students who earn 40 or more points during the semester are eligible for taking a final exam; the exam asks the student to discuss mathematical problems from the mid-term exam and home assignments, as well as to answer to simple questions related to general course topics.
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A student can score a maximum of 40 points on the final oral exam (passing threshold is 20 points). A student who gets less than this minimum, must take a makeup oral exam.
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A student who earns 20 points or more, and less than 40 points during the whole semester will have to take a makeup exam. The makeup exam is organized in the following manner:
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- Written part is structured similarly to mid-term written exam, during which students will have to solve problems in which they failed on their mid-term exams (got less than 10 points).
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- Oral part of the exam is structured in the same way as the oral part of the final exam.
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Aditional notes