PSE 6041 SYLLABUS

PSE 6041 SYLLABUS
Power Generation Operation and Control (3 credits)
Friday Afternoon: 1:00-3:00 PM
15 Virtual Class Meetings (no face-face meetings)
Pre-requisites: All coursework to qualify for the upper division in ECE must be completed.
Instructor: Dr. Bruce F. Wollenberg
Course Number: PSE 6041
Course Title: Power Generation Operation and Control
Credits: 3
Course Description: Power system operations and economics is a topic important to
understanding how decisions are made in hour by hour control of a power system and in
planning of new power system facilities. The cost of power starts with acquiring fuel and in
buying and selling power with neighboring electric companies and in markets. The course builds
on the characteristics of large generating facilities to include how they are operated to minimize
cost while meeting the requirement to supply load and keep equipment operating within safe
margins. This necessarily brings into focus the transmission system which connects generators to
loads and several sections of the course are devoted to transmission system operation and
analysis. Students will be introduced to new optimization methods and new analysis methods
used in the power industry.
Purpose of Course: To provide students with a background in power system economic analysis,
optimization techniques, and transmission system analysis techniques. This will be built on a
background of basic power systems analysis and will prepare students for work in the power
systems operations and planning fields.
Textbook: POWER GENERATION, OPERATION AND CONTROL,
Allen J. Wood, Bruce F. Wollenberg, and Gerald Sheblé, 3rd Edition,
John Wiley and Sons, NY 2014
Week 1:
Introduction, (Ch 1)
Power Generation Operation, Generator Input/Output Curves, Optimization and Kuhn-Tucker
Conditions (Ch1, Ch3 AP 3A)
Assigned video clip – 1
Homework Questions: 3.2, 3.3, 3.5
Week 2:
Economic Dispatch, Linear Programming (Ch3, Sec 3.1-3.5 , AP 3B)
Participation Factors, Transmission Losses, LMP, Auctions (Ch 3,Sec 3.8-3.11.)
Assigned video clip – 2
Homework Questions: 3.7, 3.11, 3.17
Week 3:
Unit Commitment Problem, Dynamic Programming Solution (Ch 4, Sec 4.1 – 4.2.1) Lagrange
Relaxation Solution, Security Constrained Unit Commitment (Ch 4, Sec 4.2.2-4.4)
Assigned video clip – 3
Homework Questions: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Week 4:
Generation with Limited Fuel, Take or Pay Contracts, Linear Programming techniques (Ch 5,
Sec 5.1-5.5) Hydro Scheduling, Pumped Storage Scheduling, (Ch5, Sec 5.6-5.8)
Assigned video clip – 4
Homework Questions: 5.1, 5.4, 5.5
Week 5:
Hydro Scheduling using Dynamic and Linear Programming (Ch5 Sec 5.9-5.10, AP 5A)
Assigned video clip – 5
Homework Questions: 5.8, 5.11, 5.12
Week 6:
Transmission System Operation, Power Flow, Transmission Losses:, (Ch 6, Sec 6.1-6.12, 6.146.18) Transmission Loss Calculations, Penalty Factors (Ch 6, Sec 6.20-6.22)
Assigned video clip – 6
Homework Questions: 6.5, 6.6, 6.7
Week 7:
Introduction to Power System Security Analysis (Ch 7, Sec 7.1-7.6, AP 7A)
PTDF and LODF factors, Corrective Rescheduling of Generation (Ch7 AP 7B)
Assigned video clip – 7a, 7b
Homework Questions: 7.1, 7.3, 7.5
Week 8:
Introduction to Optimal Power FlowTechniques (Ch 8, Sec 8.1-8.6)
Optimal Power Flow Calculations (Ch 8, Sec 8.7-8.12)
Assigned video clip – 8a, 8b
Homework Questions: 8.1, 8.3, 8.4
Week 9:
Introduction to Power System State Estimation (Ch 9, Sec 9.1-9.3)
State Estimator Newton and Orthogonal Algorithms, Observability, Bad Data Analysis (Ch
9 Sec 9.4-9.10)
Assigned video clip – 9a, 9b
Homework Questions: 9.1, 9.3, 9.4
Week 10:
Control of Generating Units, Automatic Generation Control (Ch 10, Sec 10.1-10.7)
Assigned video clip – 10a, 10b
Homework Questions: 10.1, 10.2, 10.4
Week 11:
Operation under Vertically Integrated vs. Deregulated Environments
Interchange, Pooling, Brokers and Auctions (Ch11 Sec 11.6-11.11)
Assigned video clip – 11a, 11b
Homework Questions: 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Week 12:
Deregulated Electric Utility Companies (Notes)
Meaning of a free market (Notes)
Assigned video clip – 12a, 12b
Homework Questions: 11.8, 11.9
Week 13:
Pricing Energy, Auctions and Power Exchanges (Notes)
Assigned video clip – 13a, 13b
Homework Questions: 11.10
Week 14:
Control of Transmission Congestion, Optimal Power Flow and Bus Marginal Pricing Ancillary
Services
Assigned video clip – 14
Homework Questions: Problem to be handed out in note form
Week 15:
Independent System Operators
Financial Transmission Rights Contracts
Assigned video clip – 15a, 15b
Homework Questions: Problem to be handed out in note form
Course Requirements:
1) Every week, as a pre-class assignment, prior to attending the virtual class:
a. Watch the assigned video clip
b. Read the assigned pages from the textbook
c. Complete the assigned Concept Quizzes
d. Complete the Questions to be discussed in the virtual class
2) Every week, attend the virtual class synchronously and/or asynchronously
3) Every week, finish all assigned homework problems in the allotted time.
4) Take the Mid-Term and the Final exams at the pre-announced time under a proctored
setting.
Course Policies:
1. We take scholastic honesty very seriously; for various policies, please see the following:
http://www.policy.umn.edu/Policies/Education/Education/SYLLABUSREQUIREMENT
S.html.
2. Both midterm Exams will count towards your grade.
3. There will be no make-up midterm exams. However, if you miss one midterm due to
medical emergency documented with a physician’s letter, your grade will be normalized
out of 85 points.
4. If you miss the Final Exam due to medical emergency documented with a physician’s
letter, you will receive a grade of “Incomplete” and you must take a new Final Exam at a
mutually agreed time before the end of Spring 2015, in order for “Incomplete” to be
removed.
5. Submission of Assignments on time: Unless the instructor extends the due date of an
assignment, it will not be accepted.
6. You are expected to have a calculator available in each virtual-class.
Policies regarding Concept Quizzes and In-class Discussion Problems:
1. Each pre-class set of Concept Quizzes and In-Class Problem Sets, if assigned, will be
weighted equally.
2. For each student, 3 sets of Concept Quizzes and In-Class Problem Sets with the lowest
scores will not be counted or being absent due to religious observances, etc.
Grading:
Point Spread for Grade Determination
92.1....to....100 = A
90.......to.....92 = A85.......to.....89.9 = B+
80.......to.....84.9 = B
78.......to.....79.9 = B75.......to.....77.9 = C+
70.......to.....74.9 = C
68.......to.....69.9 = C-
Final Grade:
5% Weekly Concept Quizzes
15% Weekly solution to problems to be discussed in class
15% weekly assigned homework problems
20% Mid-Term Exam
45% Final Exam
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