6.691
Seminar in Electric Power Systems
Spring 2006
This course comprises of a seminar on planning and operation of modern electric power systems. Content varies with current interests of instructor and class; emphasis on engineering aspects, but economic issues may be examined too. Core topics include: overview of power system structure and operation; representation of components, including transmission lines, transformers, generating plants, loads; power flow analysis, dynamics and control of multimachine systems, steady-state and transient stability, system protection; economic dispatch; mobile and isolated power systems; computation and simulation.
Readings
- Background information and many of the problems are available from the textbook: Bergen, A., and V. Vittal. Power Systems Analysis . 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN: 0136919901.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.