Courses

ECE 576
Power System Dynamics and Stability

Subject Area Power and Energy Systems
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 476
Credit or concurrent registration in ECE 530
Course Directors Peter W Sauer
Description Modeling of the synchronous machine and its controls such as excitation system and turbine-governor dynamics; time-scales and reduced-order models; nonlinear and linear multimachine models; power system stabilizers; stability analysis using energy function.
Notes Same as CSE 544.
Credit 4 hours.
Topics
  • 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
Course Prerequisites ECE 476; credit or concurrent registration in ECE 530.
Texts P.W. Sauer and M.A. Pai, Power System Dynamics and Stability, Prentice-Hall, 1998.