EE 315

Power Distribution and Utilization

Lecture1: Introduction

Dr. Shahid Alam

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering
Sciences and Technology
s.alam@giki.edu.pk
About Dr. Shahid Alam

Education

o PhD: High Voltage Engineering Dec. 2011 to Nov. 2016

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

o Licentiate: High Voltage Engineering Dec. 2011 to Sep. 2014

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

o M.Sc. Electrical Power Engineering 2009-2011

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

o B.Sc. Electrical Engineering 2004-2008

UET Peshawar

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About Dr. Shahid Alam

Teaching experience

o Assistant professor at GIKI since January 2017

o Teaching assistant during PhD at Chalmers 2011-2016
Normally the doctoral students teach courses in Master
programmes.
Subjects: High voltage technology, High voltage
Engineering, Applied computational electromagnetics.
o Instructor Nov 2008-April 2009
Peshawar institute of technology, Peshawar.
Subjects: Digital logic design (DLD) and Power Electronics.

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Contact Information

My Contact Details
Office: G-16 FEE block, GIK Institute
Office Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 09:00 am – 4:00 pm
Extension: 2506
Email: s.alam@giki.edu.pk

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Course Description

o The course will introduce students to distribution and

utilization of electrical power.
o The course emphasis on electricity basics, power
distribution systems and components, load demand and bill
calculations, power factor and its improvement, protection
schemes and proper grounding techniques.
o On the utilization side, students will understand electrical
heating and welding, fundamentals of illumination
engineering and types of lamps.

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Course contents
o Electricity basics and overview of power system
fundamentals
o Distribution systems based on alternating and
direct currents
o Load characterization and demand and bill
calculations
o Protection and safety issues in distribution system
o Electrical welding and types of heating
o Fundamentals of illumination engineering and
types of lamps

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Books

 Text Books:
o Electrical Power System Technology by Stephen W.
Fardo and Dale R. Patrick, 3rd edition, CRC Press,
2009.
o Principles of Power System by V. k. Mehta and Rohit
Mehta, 4th edition, S. Chand and Company ltd.

 Reference Book:
o Electrical Power Distribution System Engineering by Turan Gönen,
McGraw-Hill Inc., 1986.

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Administrative Matters

o Pre-Requisite: Electrical Network Analysis (EE212)

o EE315 is a 3+0 Credit Hours Course.
o Lecture slides (depending on lecture), assignments,
and other updates will be uploaded on the course
website.
o Must bring your calculators to help work out
numerical problems in class.

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Administrative Matters

o An approved leave will not be counted towards the

attendance.
o In any case (including leave/absent), there will be no makeup
quiz.
o No late assignments will be considered for grading.
o For further assistance you can visit the EE315 Teaching
Assistant ..................
o According to the Institute Attendance Policy, 80% attendance
is mandatory to sit in the final exam.
o For queries, kindly follow the office hours in order to avoid
any inconvenience.

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Course assessment

o The following tools will be employed for the final

grading of the course EE315.

o Quizzes 20%
o Assignments 10%
o Midterm Exam 25%
o Final Exam 45%

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Mapping of CLOs & PLOs
CLOs Course Learning Outcomes PLOs Blooms Taxonomy

Be able to explain various types of power Cognitive Level 2

CLO-1 PLO-1
distribution systems and its components (Comprehension)

Be able to understand various types of

Cognitive Level 2
CLO-2 electricity tariff and utilization of PLO-1
electrical energy in different applications (Comprehension)

Be able to apply various techniques for

Cognitive Level 3
CLO-3 power factor correction and protection of PLO-2
power system components (Applying)

Be able to perform analysis of load

demand and select appropriate Cognitive Level 4
CLO-4 PLO-2
components to meet the energy (Analyzing)
requirements

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OBE Based Grading Policy

Assessment
CLO-1 CLO-2 CLO-3 CLO-4
Tools
Quizzes 20% 30% 25% 20%
Assignments 15% 10% 15% ---------
Midterm
40% ------- ------- 50%
Examination
Final
25% 60% 60% 30%
Examination

o For achieving CLO, student must attain at least 40 % marks for

each CLO.

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 Simple Power System
• Every power system has three major components:
– generation: source of power, ideally with a specified
voltage and frequency
– transmission system: transmits power; ideally as a
perfect conductor
– load: consumes power; ideally with a constant resistive
value

• Additional components include:

– Distribution system: local reticulation of power
– Control equipment: coordinate supply with load
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Complications

• No ideal voltage sources exist

• Loads are seldom constant
• Transmission system has resistance, inductance,
capacitance and flow limitations
• Simple system has no redundancy so power system
will not work if any component fails

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Notation - Power

• Power: Instantaneous consumption of energy

• Power Units
• Watts = voltage x current for dc (W)
• kW – 1 x 103 Watt
• MW – 1 x 106 Watt
• GW – 1 x 109 Watt

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Energy Economics

• Electric generating technologies involve a tradeoff

between fixed costs (costs to build them) and
operating costs
• Nuclear and solar high fixed costs, but low operating
costs (though cost of solar has decreased substantially
recently)
• Natural gas/oil have low fixed costs but can have higher
operating costs (dependent upon fuel prices)
• Coal, wind, hydro are in between
• Also the units capacity factor is important to
determining ultimate cost of electricity

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Energy Costs

Energy costs depend

upon the capacity factor
for the generator.
The capacity factor is the
ratio of the electricity
actually produced,
divided by its maximum
potential output. It is
usually expressed on an
annual basis.
Source: Steve Chu and Arun Majumdar, “Opportunities and challenges for a
sustainable energy future,” Nature, August 2012, Figure 6
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 Solar PV Prices

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