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EEE 311 Course Note-1
EEE 311 Course Note-1
Reference materials:
1. Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution - Leonard Lee Grigsby
2. Electric Power System Fundamentals - Salvador Acha Daza
3. Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering – Giorgio Rizzoni
4. Electric Energy Systems : analysis and operation edited by Antonio
5. Gómez-Expósito, Antonio J. Conejo, Claudio A. Cañizares.
6. Any other textbook on basic electrical engineering
Module 1
Energy and Electric Energy Supply Sources: Generation
Energy is a fundamental ingredient of modern society and its supply impacts directly
on the social and economic development of nations. Economic growth and energy
consumption go hand in hand. Coal, oil and natural gas have been the traditional basic
energy sources, and this implies dependence on third parties (sometimes) for energy
supply.
The electricity required to meet these consumption needs is generated in production
centers commonly called power plants or stations, where a source of primary energy
is converted into electric power with clearly defined characteristics.
1.1 Generation: Conventional and Renewables
There are many generation technologies, usually associated with the fuel used.
Conventional power stations can be discussed under the following: hydroelectric,
thermal, and nuclear.
1.1.1 Hydroelectric Power Generation
The primary source of energy used in hydroelectric stations is water. Hydroelectric
power generation involves the storage of a hydraulic fluid, water, conversion of the
hydraulic (potential) energy of the fluid into mechanical (kinetic) energy in a
hydraulic turbine, and conversion of the mechanical energy to electrical energy in an
electric generator.
1. Run-of-the-river plants, having small amounts of water storage and thus little
control of the flow through the plant.
2. Storage plants, having the ability to store water and thus control the flow
through the plant on a daily or seasonal basis.
3. Pumped storage plants, in which the direction of rotation of the turbines is
reversed during offpeak hours, pumping water from a lower reservoir to an
upper reservoir, thus ‘‘storing energy’’ for later production of electricity during
peak hours.
1.1.2 Thermal Generating Plants
Thermal generating plants (also referred to as steam plants) are designed and
constructed to convert energy from fuel (coal, oil, gas, or radiation) into electric
power. The actual conversion is accomplished by a turbine-driven generator.
Depending on what the fuel is being used, it may be termed coal-fired, oil-fired, or
gasfired stations.
reason is gaining popularity in developing countries. The two basic approaches taken
in this technology are:
1. Direct combustion in specific furnaces to produce steam subsequently used in
a turbine cycle, like in conventional steam power stations.
2. Gasification of the organic matter to obtain a combustible gas, usually with a
high methane content, generally used to feed an internal combustion engine or
gas turbine coupled to an electric generator. Matter can be gasified with
physical–chemical or anaerobic biological processes.
1.2 Transmission
The purpose of the electric transmission system is the interconnection of the electric
energy producing power plants or generating stations with the loads. Transmission
grid lines consist of aluminum cables with a steel core that rest on towers. Line design
is based on both mechanical and electrical considerations. The towers must be sturdy
enough to bear the weight of the cables and withstand the voltage in the cables while
maintaining the minimum safety distance between cables, between the cables and the
towers, and between the cables and the ground. A very visible assembly of insulators
attaches the cables to the towers. Sometimes two lines run along a parallel route,
sharing the same towers: this is known as a double circuit.
The concept of typical energy transmission and distribution systems - The generating
station produces the electric energy. The generator voltage is around 15 to 30 kV.
This relatively low voltage is not appropriate for the transmission of energy over long
distances. At the generating station a transformer is used to increase the voltage and
reduce the current. In Nigeria, the voltage is increased to 350 kV and an extra-high-
voltage (EHV) line transmits the generator-produced energy to a distant substation.
Such substations are located on the outskirts of large cities or in the center of several
large loads.
The voltage is reduced at the 330 kV/132 kV EHV substation to the high-voltage level
and high-voltage lines transmit the energy to high-voltage substations located within
cities. At the high-voltage substation the voltage is reduced to 66 kV or 33 kV, as the
case may be. Sub-transmission voltage lines connect the high-voltage substation to
many local distribution stations located within cities. Sub-transmission lines are
frequently located along major streets, The voltage is reduced to 11 kV at the
distribution substation. Several distribution lines emanate from each distribution
substation as overhead or underground lines. Distribution lines (low voltage
distribute the energy along streets.
transformation nodes that feed the distribution networks that reach consumers, and
the centers where system measurement, protection, interruption, and dispatch
equipment are sited. Typically, several high-voltage lines feed into the substation,
which steps the voltage down and sends the resulting current over the outgoing
(lower voltage) transmission or distribution lines. Materially, the substation is
structured around thick bars to which the various lines connect. Circuit opening and
closing facilities ensure the connection and disconnection operations needed for
dispatch, configuration changes, or the isolation of failed lines or other elements.
There is a wide variety of substation configurations. Busbar numbers and
arrangement (single, split, double, or triple bar substations, with or without transfer
bars, or ring-shaped) and the number of circuit breaker and dispatch devices per
outgoing or incoming line determine the configuration type. Increasing the number
of such devices increases substation costs but enhances safety, preventing such
anomalies as momentary downstream outages due to simple dispatching operations.
The most representative technological facility in substations is the transformer,
which raises or lowers voltage.
1.3 Distribution Systems
The physical structure of most power systems consists of generation facilities feeding
bulk power into a high-voltage bulk transmission network that in turn serves any
number of distribution substations. A typical distribution substation will serve from
one to as many as ten feeder circuits. A typical feeder circuit may serve numerous
loads of all types. A light to medium industrial customer may take service from the
distribution feeder circuit primary, while a large industrial load complex may take
service directly from the bulk transmission system. All other customers, including
residential and commercial, are typically served from the secondary of distribution
transformers that are in turn connected to a distribution feeder circuit.
The substations normally house circuit breakers that protect the feeders, that is, lines
running to other transformer stations where the voltage is stepped down again to
supply low-voltage power, in our case in Nigeria, 110V, to residential customers,
wholesalers, and retailers, etc. Consumers connect into the system at the voltage level
best suited to the scale of consumption.
Energy — Energy use (over a specified period of time) is a key identifying parameter
for power system loads. Energy use is often recorded for various portions of the
power system (e.g., homes, businesses, feeders, substations, districts). Utilities report
aggregate system energy use over a variety of time frames (daily, weekly, monthly,
and annually).
Metering — Electrical metering deals with two basic quantities: energy and power.
Energy is equivalent to work. Power is the rate of doing work. Power applied (or
consumed) for any length of time is energy. In mathematical terms, power integrated
over time is energy. The basic electrical unit of energy is the watthour. The basic unit
of power is the watt. The watthour meter measures energy (in watthours), while the
wattmeter measures the rate of energy, power (in watthours per hour or simply
watts). For a constant power level, power multiplied by time is energy. For example,
a watthour meter connected for two hours in a circuit using 500 watts (500
watthours per hour) will register 1000 watthours.
Demand — Loads require specific amounts of energy over short periods of time.
Demand is a measure of this energy and is expressed in terms of power (kilowatts or
Megawatts). Instantaneous demand is the peak instantaneous power use of a device,
facility, or system. Demand, as commonly referred to in utility discussions, is an
integrated demand value, most often integrated over 10, 15, or 30 min. Integrated
demand values are determined by dividing the energy used by the time interval of
measurement or the demand interval.
Demand Factor — Demand factor is a ratio of the maximum demand to the total
connected load of a system or the part of the system under consideration. Demand
factor is often used to express the expected diversity of individual loads within a
facility prior to construction. Use of demand factors allows facility power system
equipment to be sized appropriately for the expected loads
Load Factor — Load factor is similar to demand factor and is calculated from the
energy use, the demand, and the period of time associated with the measurement. A
high load factor is typically desirable, indicating that a load or group of loads operates
near its peak most of the time, allowing the greatest benefit to be derived from any
facilities installed to serve the load.
𝐸𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑢𝑠𝑒
𝐿𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 = (1.1)
𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑×𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒
ASSIGNMENT: Discuss common faults in distribution systems and the protective and
control devices used to mitigate these faults. SUBMIT NEXT CLASS (16/04/21)
Module 2
AC Power
In our country, Nigeria, the voltage and frequency of our power system is 220V at 50
Hz AC power.
2.1 Instantaneous and Average power
When a linear electric circuit is excited by a sinusoidal source, all voltages and
currents in the circuit are also sinusoids of the same frequency as that of the
excitation source. Figure 2.1 depicts the general form of a linear AC circuit. The most
general expressions for the voltage and current delivered to an arbitrary load are as
follows:
where V and I are the peak amplitudes of the sinusoidal voltage and current,
respectively, and θV and θI are their phase angles.
i(t) I = Iе-jθ
V = Vе-jθ v Z =V/I
+ +
v(t)
– – е j(θ)
From here on, let us assume that the reference phase angle of the voltage source, θV ,
is zero, and let θI = θ.
Recall that the instantaneous power dissipated by a circuit element is given by the
product of the instantaneous voltage and current, it is possible to obtain a general
expression for the power dissipated by an AC circuit element:
Equation 2.2 can be further simplified with the aid of trigonometric identities to yield:
𝑉𝐼 𝑉𝐼
𝑝(𝑡) = cos(𝜃) + cos(2𝜔𝑡 − 𝜃) (2.3)
2 2
𝑉𝐼
𝑃𝑎𝑣 = cos(𝜃) 𝐴𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 (2.5)
2
As shown in Figure 2.1, the same analysis carried out in equations 2.1 to 2.3 can also
be repeated using phasor analysis. In phasor notation, the current and voltage of
equation 2.1 are given by
𝐕(𝑗𝜔) = 𝑉𝑒 𝑗0
The impedance of the circuit element in Figure 2.1 is defined by the phasor vo0ltage
and current of Equation 2.6 and 2.7 to be
𝑉
𝑍 = 𝑒 −𝑗(𝜃) = |𝑍|𝑒 𝑗𝜃𝑍 (2.7)
𝐼
𝜃𝑍 = 𝜃 (2.8)
Expression for the average power obtained in Equation 2.4 can also be represented
using phasor notation:
1 𝑉2 1
𝑃𝑎𝑣 = |𝑍|
cos(𝜃) = 𝐼 2 |𝑍| cos(𝜃) 𝐴𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 (2.9)
2 2
In AC power analysis, it is usual to employ the root mean square (rms) values of AC
voltages and currents in the circuit, the use of rms value eliminates the factor ½ in
power expressions (Equation 2.9) and leads to simplification of the equation.
𝐼
𝐼𝑟𝑚𝑠 = = 𝐼̃ (2.12)
√2
1 𝑉2 ̃2
𝑉
𝑃𝑎𝑣 = |𝑍|
cos(𝜃) = |𝑍| cos(𝜃)
2
1
= 𝐼 2 |𝑍| cos(𝜃) = 𝐼̃2 |𝑍| cos(𝜃) = 𝑉̃ 𝐼̃ cos 𝜃 (2.13)
2
And the amplitudes of phasor voltages and currents will be denoted by the rms
amplitude. The rms phasor for voltage and current are:
̃ = 𝑉̃ ∠𝜃𝑉 is
and the sinusoidal form of the phasor voltage 𝐕
The phase angle of the load impedance plays a very important role in the absorption
of power by a load impedance. From Equation 2.13, it shows clearly that the average
power dissipated by an AC load is dependent on the cosine of the angle of impedance.
The term cos (θ) is referred to as the power factor (pf). For a purely inductive or
capacitive load, the pf is equal to 0 and equal to 1 for a purely resistive load. In every
other case, pf is between 0 and 1 represented by Equation 2.19:
EXAMPLE 2.1
Compute the average and instantaneous power dissipated by the load of Figure 2.2.
Note: Use rms values for all phasor quantities in the problem
R=5Ω
v(t) = 25.25 sin (ωt) +
(ω = 314 rad/s) – i(t)
L = 10 mH
Figure 2.2
Solution
Known parameters: Source voltage and frequency, load resistance and inductance
values
Find: Pav and p(t) for the RL load
Step 1: define the phasors and impedances
̃ = 𝟏𝟕. 𝟖𝟓 ∠ (− 𝝅);
𝐕 𝑍 = 𝑅 + 𝑗𝜔𝐿 = 5 + 𝑗3.14 = 6∠0.523
𝟐
𝜋
̃ 17.85∠ (− 2 )
𝐕
𝑰̃ = = = 𝟑∠ − 𝟑. 𝟎
𝒁 6∠0.523
The average power can be computed from the phasor quantites: