Smart grids technologies
Summary
Learn the technologies and methodologies used in the context smart electrical grids and be able to deploy/implement/test them in a lab environment.
Content
- Modern monitoring: phasor measurement units technology, synchrophasors extraction processes and time alignement
- Smart grid communication; reliability, real time and security issues
- Topology assessment and contingency analysis of power grids
- Admittance matrix calculus, numerical solution of the load flow problem and state estimation
- Energy management and dispatch plans, the optimal power flow problem
- Demand response
Keywords
Smart grid, power systems
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
Electric power systems, power distribution networks, TPC/IP Networking
Recommended courses
Signal processing, discrete optimization methods, model predictive control, industrial electronics.
Important concepts to start the course
Understanding of electrical grids and communication networks.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Design monitoring and control platforms for smart grids
- Test a smart grid
- Implement a smart grid
- Analyze performance of a smart grid
Transversal skills
- Plan and carry out activities in a way which makes optimal use of available time and other resources.
- Continue to work through difficulties or initial failure to find optimal solutions.
- Demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking
- Manage priorities.
- Use both general and domain specific IT resources and tools
Teaching methods
Ex cathedra, classroom integrated exercises and computer laboratory sessions.
Expected student activities
Attend lectures and labs
Do lab homeworks
Do online quizzes
Assessment methods
Written exam (50%) and graded lab reports (50%)
Prerequisite for
Master projects in the areas of power systems and energy conversion systems.
In the programs
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Smart grids technologies
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Practical work: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Smart grids technologies
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Practical work: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Smart grids technologies
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Practical work: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Smart grids technologies
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Practical work: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Smart grids technologies
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Practical work: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
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