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EE40260: Energy management & power electronics systems

[Page last updated: 09 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Credits: 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: EXOB 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Examination (EXOB 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: Describe key functions in the economic operation and control of modern AC power systems, including security assessment and mitigation against potential threats.
Describe the major components of a modern energy management system (EMS) for AC power supply.


Synopsis: Following discussion with marketing, this is not required.

Aims: To provide students with an insight and an understanding of energy management systems employed in grid-scale AC power supply. Application of information, techniques and methods to the operation and dynamic control of an electrical energy system in order to deliver an affordable, sustainable and secure AC electrical supply.To introduce and analyse power electronic systems for high-power AC applications, such as, industrial and traction drives, small-scale power generation, and power system control. To examine the operation, characteristics, and capabilities of commonly used systems and their control methods.

Skills: Application of the information, techniques and methods discussed in the lectures, to the proposal of, and the carrying through of, appropriate solutions to engineering problems in high-power power-electronics. Taught, facilitated and tested.

Content: Modern AC power system operation and control overview including generation planning; scheduling and control; security of supply. DC-AC power conversion, inverter types, their output waveforms and control, harmonic analysis and managing output waveform distortion. Inverter application in AC drives, reactive-power compensation, power-flow control, and active power factor correction. High-power power-semiconductor device sizing and application requirements.

Course availability:

EE40260 is Optional on the following courses:

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
  • UEEE-AFM01 : MEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Year 4)
  • UEEE-AKM01 : MEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 5)
  • UEEE-AFM14 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology (Year 4)
  • UEEE-AKM14 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology with Year long work placement (Year 5)
  • UEXX-AFM02 : MEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (Year 4)
  • UEXX-AKM02 : MEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 5)
  • UEEE-AFM16 : MEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering (Year 4)
  • UEEE-AKM16 : MEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 5)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • UEME-AFM48 : MEng(Hons) Integrated Design Engineering (Year 4)
  • UEME-AKM48 : MEng(Hons) Integrated Design Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 5)

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
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