Power System Operation and Control
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Power System Operation and Control Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Power System Operation and Control (subject code 2180909) as prescribed for Electrical Engineering · Semester 8 divides the course into 3 units, covering 24 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2180909)Unit 1 Automatic Generation and Voltage Control
- 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)
- Speed Governor Dead-Band and Its Effect on AGC
- Digital LF Controllers
- Decentralized Control
Unit 2 Power System Security
- System State Classification
- Security Analysis
- Contingency Analysis
Unit 3 Reactive Power and Voltage Control
- 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
- Governing effects on reactive power flow
- Relation between voltage and reactive power at a node in a power system
- Reactive power requirement for control of voltage in long lines