Undergraduate Course: Power Engineering 2 (SCEE08008)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | School (School of Engineering) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course introduces students to the techniques and
equipment used in the generation, transmission, distribution
and utilisation of electrical power, and gives a basic
understanding of how a power system operates and the
problems facing electricity utilities. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
Week 18, Monday, 12:10 - 13:00, Zone: King's Buildings. Lecture Theatre 1, Sanderson Building |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student should:
1. Appreciate the operation of the UK grid system, and be
aware of its main constituent components.
2. Understand the difference between real, reactive and
apparent power.
3. Be able to perform power factor correction calculations.
4. Be able to analyse balanced and unbalanced three phase
circuits.
5. Understand how a real transformer departs from the ideal,
and know what each component in the transformer equivalent
circuit represents.
6. Be able to perform basic transformer design calculations.
7. Be able to explain how a rotating magnetic field is produced
in the stator of a three phase ac machine.
8. Understand how a three phase ac machines operate.
Be able to perform basic calculations on ac machine operation
using the equivalent circuit.
9. Understand the operation of a dc motor, and be able to
perform calculations on its behaviour.
10. Understand how to wire to professional standards, and
safely test, a small motor control panel. |
Assessment Information
100% written examination.
Any student who does not attend and perform satisfactorily on
the Power Engineering 2 laboratory is deemed to have failed
the course, as it tests competency regarding important safety
aspects of power engineering. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
1. Introduction to the course. Power system and its elements.
Reasons for the variety of transmission voltages, ac, three-phase.
Load-frequency mechanism, blackouts (2 hours)
2. Phasors and RLC circuits: ac quantities, complex numbers (2
hour)
3. Real, reactive and apparent power; power factor and power factor
correction. Negative effects of reactive power transmission (2
hours)
4. Analysis of 3-phase circuits: star connection, delta connection;
line voltage and current; phase voltage and current, domestic
arrangements (2 hour)
5. Introduction to electromagnetics: Faraday&©s Law, magnetic
circuit (1 hour)
6. The transformer: ideal transformer, losses, efficiency, equivalent
circuit, short-circuit- and open-circuit test (2 hours).
7. AC machines: rotating magnetic field (1 hour)
8. Synchronous machine: construction, generator operation,
equivalent circuit. (3 hours)
9. Induction motor: construction, operation, slip, equivalent circuit,
torque-speed curve, starting (3 hours).
10. D.C. machines: construction, commutator, equivalent circuit,
speed control, series, shunt, separately connected, torque-speed
characteristics (2 hours)
11. Understand how to wire to professional standards, and safely test,
a small motor control panel. Appreciate the basic elements of
overcurrent protection and electrical hazard/shock protection. (3
hours) |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Electric Machinery Fundamentals, Stephen
edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 9780071151559 |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
2 lectures per week for 10 weeks. Tutorials in weeks 4, 6, 8,
10.
One three-hour laboratory class. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ewen Macpherson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5601
Email: Ewen.Macpherson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Sharon Potter
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079
Email: Sharon.Potter@ed.ac.uk |
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