Postgraduate Course: Electrical Engineering Fundamentals of Renewable Energy (PGEE11024)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | The course will introduce basic principles and concepts of electrical engineering to students with non-electrical backgrounds. This should provide students with a foundation and knowledge necessary for the understanding of electrical aspects of renewable energy engineering. Techniques and equipment used in the generation, transmission, distribution and utilisation of electrical power will be analysed and discussed, as well as how a power system operates and what are the general problems facing electricity utilities.
Contents:
1. A general introduction to power systems, an overview of renewable energy sources and their contribution to the overall electricity generation mix.
2. Basic mathematics, ac quantities, phasors, complex numbers, operators.
3. Resistance, capacitance and inductance, basic RLC circuits, Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws.
4. Active, reactive and apparent powers, instantaneous and average values, power factor and reactive power compensation, voltage drop across a line.
5. Three-phase circuits, ¿star¿ and ¿delta¿ connection of balanced and unbalanced loads, ¿star-delta¿ transformation, advantages of three-phase supply systems.
6. Introduction to electromagnetics, Ampere's and Faraday's laws, magnetomotive force, Lorentz's force, reluctance, B, H, PHI, L, B-H curve.
7. Magnetic circuits and ideal/real transformer, turns ratio, losses, efficiency, impedance matching, transformer equation and equivalent circuit.
8. Induction motor, construction, basic principles of operation, analogy with the transformer, equivalent circuit, torque-speed curve, methods of starting.
9. Synchronous generator, construction, basic principles of operation, equivalent circuit, control of output active/reactive power, frequency and voltage.
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| Course description |
Lectures: (Dr Sasa Djokic)
Two per week for 10 weeks.
Introduction to Power Systems and System Elements
Introductory Mathematics. RLC Circuits
Active and Reactive Power
Single-phase and Three-phase Circuits
Introduction to Electromagnetics. Transformers
Induction and Synchronous Machines
Tutorials:
One per week for 8 weeks.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 8,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
67 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Exam 100%
Assessment is based on a single written paper of 120 minutes duration.
Section A: 1 question; Section B: 2 questions from 3
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | Electrical Engineering Fundamentals of Renewable Energy | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
| Revision of fundamental electrical engineering concepts and principles necessary to understand various renewable energy resources and their conversion into electrical form. Awareness and understanding of the main problems of grid integration of renewables.
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Reading List
G. Rizzoni, "Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering", McGraw-Hill
S.J. Chapman, "Electric Machinery Fundamentals", McGraw-Hill
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
1 hour(s) per week for 7 week(s). |
| Keywords | AC circuit analysis, single-phase and three-phase electricity supply systems, synchronous machine, i |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sasa Djokic
Tel: (0131 6)50 5595
Email: Sasa.Djokic@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Sharon Potter
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079
Email: Sharon.Potter@ed.ac.uk |
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