Unit 1 Automatic Generation Control and Voltage Control

8 lecture hours

• Load Frequency Control (Single Area Case)
• Load Frequency Control and Economic Despatch Control
• Two-Area Load Frequency Control
• Optimal (Two-Area) Load Frequency Control
• Automatic Voltage Control
• Load Frequency Control with Generation Rate Constraints (GRCs)

Unit 2 Reactive Power and Voltage Control

10 lecture hours

• Reactive power requirement of an uncompensated line
• Implication of surge impedance loading
• Reactive loss characteristics of transmission line
• Operation of a transmission line at no load condition
• Operation of a transmission line under heavy loading condition
• Voltage regulation of the transmission line and its relation with reactive power
• Maximum power transfer in an uncompensated line
• Line loadability
• Reactive power- voltage (Q-V) coupling concept
• Operational aspects in reactive power and voltage control
• Basic principle of system voltage control
• Reactive power flow constraints and their implications in loss of voltage
• Power System Voltage Stability : Introduction
• Difference between angle stability and voltage stability
• Causes of voltage instability
• proximity and mechanism of voltage stability
• Practical aspects of reactive power flow problems leading to voltage collapse in EHV lines

Unit 3 Power System Security

6 lecture hours

• System State Classification
• Security Analysis
• Contingency Analysis
• Sensitivity Factors: generation shift distribution factor
• line shift distribution factor

Unit 4 State Estimation

• 8 Subject Code: 3170919 w.e.f