ECE 661
Power System Protection and Relaying
Fall 2016 · DC and Flexible AC Transmission
Topics
- DC Transmission System Comparison with AC transmission, application, planning considerations, thyristor valves, analysis of bridge converters, control of converters, Reactive power supply, harmonic filters, multi-terminal DC transmission, AC-DC System Interactions, Light HVDC
- Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) Concepts of power flow control and power system stability, thyristor-based and PWM converter based FACTS devices - TCSC, SVC, STATCOM, static phase shifters and UPFC, modeling FACTS devices
Readings
- Power Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design
- Kimbark E. W., Direct Current Transmission, Vol. I, John Wiley,1971.
- N.G. Hingorani and L. Gyugyi, Understanding FACTS: Concept and Technology of Flexible AC Transmission Systems, IEEE Press, 2000.
- Lecturer notes and journal papers
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- course_outline ↗Fall 2016
- Public departmental course outline. Source may be archival; no current-term assignment is implied. Bibliographic details are preserved in textbook notes.