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A highly interactive training course on
Economic Dispatch & Grid Stability Constraints in Power System
Training course overview
This highly interactive course incorporates real-life case studies and exercises, engaging participants in small group discussions and workshops. You'll gain comprehensive knowledge of generator dynamics and the concepts of stability in power system operations. Discover how electricity is generated from AC current supplies and the necessary steps to deliver this power reliably to customers. This training covers simplified generator models commonly used in dynamic stability studies. You will learn about modern control approaches for maintaining voltage and frequency within established limits, including primary and secondary frequency control (droop control) in synchronous generators. The course will also explore power-angle stability and voltage stability to enhance reliable operations during load changes, as well as alternatives for load restoration using tap changer transformers.
Additionally, the course addresses transmission-level concepts, introducing power flow analysis as a tool for determining operating points within the power system. Various power flow formulation approaches, including DC and AC power flow, will be discussed, along with methods for solving power flow equations such as Gauss-Seidel, Newton-Raphson, and fast decoupled methods.
Key Topics:
- Power generation characteristics and economic dispatch methods
- Optimization techniques with constraints, including dynamic programming
- Unit commitment problems and solution strategies
- Generation scheduling with limited energy supplies
- Automatic generation control and power interchange
- Power system security techniques and optimal power flow applications
What are the goals?
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Apply and gain an in-depth knowledge on economic dispatch of power plants
- Identify the characteristics of power generation units and introduce them to the economic dispatch of thermal units and the methods of solution
- Discuss the transmission system effects, unit commitment and the generation with limited energy supply
- Implement the production cost models and be able to adapt the control of generation
- Use new techniques for solving old problems and new problem areas that are arising from changes in the system development patterns, regulatory structures, and economics
- Solve complicated problems, involving both economic analysis and network analysis and illustrate the solving techniques with relatively simple problems
Who is this training course for?
This Coventry Academy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Power system analysts and engineers, including generation and transmission planners, protection engineers
- Power developers and marketers
- Transmission Planning Engineer
- Plant Operations Engineer (POE)
- Regulatory staff, economic and management consultants
How will this training course be presented?
This Coventry Academy training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes lectures, workshops & work presentations, case studies & practical exercises, videos and software & simulators.
Course Outline
Day One: Characteristics of Power Generation Units and Transmission System Effects
- Characteristics of Steam Units
- Variations in Steam Unit Characteristics
- Cogeneration Plants
- Typical Generation Data
- The Power Flow Problem and Its Solution
- Transmission Losses
Day Two: Economic Dispatch of Thermal Units and Methods of Solution
- The Economic Dispatch Problem
- Thermal System Dispatching with Network Losses Considered
- The Lambda-Iteration and Newton’s Methods
- Gradient Methods of Economic Dispatch
- Economic Dispatch with Piecewise Linear Cost Functions and by using Dynamic Program
- Economic Dispatch Versus Unit Commitment
Day Three: Unit Commitment
- Constraints in Unit Commitment
- Unit Commitment Solution Methods
- Composite Generation Production Cost Function
- Solution by Gradient Search Techniques
- Hard Limits and Slack Variables
- Fuel Scheduling by Linear Programming
Day Four: Production Cost Models and Control of Power Generation
- Uses and Types of Production Cost Programs
- Probability Methods and Uses in Generation Planning Problems
- Generator, Load, Prime-Mover, Governor and Tie-Line Models
- Economy Interchange between Interconnected Utilities
- Transmission Effects and Issues
- Power System Security
Day Five: Estimation in Power Systems and Optimal Power Flow
- Introduction to Advanced Topics in Estimation
- Application of Power Systems Estimation
- Solution of the Optimal Power Flow
- Linear Sensitivity Analysis
- Security-Constrained Optimal Power Flow
- Impacts of Free–Market Pricing on Economic Dispatch Decisions
The certificate
- Coventry Academy Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course