ECE 6606PD
Distribution System Engineering
Undated
Topics
- Load characteristics and load forecast
- Distribution system planning, automation and control
- Sub-transmission and substation design
- Primary and secondary system design
- Distribution system performance and operation
- Basic definitions- load definitions, load factor definitions, diversity principle in distribution systems
- Load Forecast- factors affecting load forecasting methods, small areas load forecasting, spatial load forecasting methods, simulation, trending and mixed load forecasting methods
- Short term planning
- Long term planning
- Dynamic planning
- Structure of distribution automation
- Essential component of distribution automation
- Automation of distribution system components
- Load management
- Sub-transmission networks configurations
- Substation bus schemes
- Distribution substations ratings
- Service areas calculations
- Substation application curves
- Primary circuit configurations
- Primary feeder loading
- Secondary networks design
- Economic design of secondaries
- Unbalance loads and voltage considerations
Readings
- T. Gonen, Electric Power Distribution System Engineering, McGraw-Hill, 1986, ISBN 0-07-023707-7
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation: Electric Utility Engineering Reference Book – Distribution Systems, Vol. 3, East Pittsburgh, Pa, 1965.
- Guide to electrical power distribution systems
- Power distribution engineering: fundamentals and applications
- Electrical power distribution and transmission
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- course_outline ↗Undated
- Public departmental course outline. Source may be archival; no current-term assignment is implied. Bibliographic details are preserved in textbook notes. Course title supplied from the current catalogue because the archival heading only gives the code. Source term/year not established.