Modeling of the synchronous machine and its controls such as excitation system and turbine-governor dynamics; time-scales and reduced-order models; non-linear and linear multimachine models; power system stabilizers; stability analysis using energy functions.
 
• Synchronous machine models: model in d-q frame using Park's transformation; current and flux linkage models
• Time-scales and reduced-order models
• Excitation system representation
• Turbine governor models
• Transmission system and load models
• Interconnected multimachine model and simulation
• Linearized model of the form x = Ax + Bu and the control problem formulation
• Small signal analysis
• Power system stabilizer design
• Transient stability using energy function methods
 

P.W. Sauer and M.A. Pai, Power System Dynamics and Stability (Notes).

ECE 376 or consent of instructor. Concurrent registration in ECE 415 is recommended.

1 unit.