Application of Power Electronics to Power System
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The official GTU curriculum for Application of Power Electronics to Power System (subject code 2720721) as prescribed for EE · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 37 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 (2720721)Unit 1 Introduction
- Electrical Transmission Networks
- Flow of power in AC system and conventional control mechanisms
- Definition of Flexible ac Transmission Systems (FACTS) and brief description
- possible benefits from FACTS
- Emerging Transmission Networks
Unit 2 Reactive-Power Control in Electrical Power Transmission Systems
- Reactive Power
- Uncompensated Transmission Lines
- Passive Compensation
Unit 3 Objectives of shunt compensation, Synchronous Condensers, The
- Saturated Reactor (SR)
- The Thyristor- Controlled Reactor (TCR)
- The Thyristor-Controlled Transformer (TCT)
- The Fixed Capacitor- Thyristor- Controlled Reactor (FC-TCR)
- The Mechanically Switched Capacitor- Thristor-Controlled Reactor (MSC-TCR)
- The Thyristor-Switched capacitor and Reactor
- The Thyristor-Switched capacitor-Thyristor- Controlled Reactor (TSC-TCR)
- A Comparison of Different SVCs
Unit 4 STATCOM
- Principal of operation
- VI characteristic
- steady state model
- harmonic performance
- SSR mitigation
- transfer function and dynamic performance
- transient stability enhancement and power oscillation damping
- VAR reverse control
- comparison of SVC and STACOM
- operation with unbalance AC system
Unit 5 Objectives of Series compensation, GCSC, TSSC, The Thyristor-
- Controlled Series Capacitor (TCSC)
- The TCSC Controller
- Operation of the TCSC
- The TSSC
- Analysis of the TCSC
- Capability Characteristics
- Harmonic Performance
- Response of the TCSC
- Modeling of the TCSC
- TCSC Applications: Open-Loop Control
- Closed-Loop Control
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