EE 553

Course Schedule
Steady-state analysis (Fall 2012)

M, W  3:40-5:00, 204 Marston

Dr. Jim McCalley

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Week

Class number

Description

Lecturer

Resources

Homework Assignment

Homework Solutions

Exam Solutions

8/20

1

Course overview and intro to power system operation and control

McCalley

Ch 1 of W&W; Paper 1; Paper 2; PDF Notes

 

 

 

8/22

2

The power flow problem

McCalley

Section 4.1 of W&W; PDF Word;

Some resources on power system engineering basics: Three-phase, Per-Unit, Generation, Transmission

HW1, PDF

Due Fri, Aug 31, 5:00 pm.

HW1 Solutions, PDF

 

8/27

3

LU and Fast power flow; Sparsity

McCalley

LU-PDF; Fast-PDF Sparsity-PDF; DCPowerFlowEquations-PDF

Tinney1, Tinney2;    Multi-frontal

 

8/29

4

State estimation

McCalley

Ch 12 of W&W; SE1-PDF   SE-2-PDF

 

9/3

 

 

 

 

 

LABOR DAY

 

9/5

5

Power system security

McCalley

Ch 11 of W&W Security1-PPT  DCPowerFlow-PDF Sensitivities-GSF

 

 

 

9/10

6

Power system security

McCalley

 

HW2, PDF

Mon, September 17

 

HW2 Solutions, PDF

 

9/12

7

Automatic generation control

McCalley

Ch 9 of W&W, AGC; PDF

HW3, PDF,

Due Mon, Sept 24

HW3 solutions: PDF

 

9/17

8

Automatic generation control

McCalley

 

 

 

9/19

9

Automatic generation control

McCalley

 

9/24

10

EXAM

McCalley

Exam 1 Summary: PPT

 

Exam 1 Solutions: PDF

 

9/26

11

Primary control and wind

McCalley

Read notes on Wind and Regulation: PDF

Review slides on CPS1, CPS2: PPT

Read report by Undrill: Click Here

 

 

10/1

12

Characteristics of power generation units

McCalley

Ch 2 of W&W; Cost-curves, PDF

Optimization into: PPT

HW4: Problems 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 in W&W. Due Oct 8.

HW4 Solutions: PDF

 

10/3

13

Economic dispatch of thermal units

McCalley

Ch 3 of W&W, EDC1   EDC2

 

 

10/8

14

Economic dispatch of thermal units

McCalley

EDC3

 

 

 

10/10

15

Transmission system effects: losses

McCalley

Section 4.2 of W&W,  Ch 13 of W&W. Notes on LPOPF: PDF, Notes on Demand bidding: PDF, Notes on settlements: PDF, Slides on LPOPF, Demand Bidding, Settlements: PPT, Notes on CPLEX: PDF, Notes on nonlinear OPF: PDF

 

10/15

16

Optimal power flow

McCalley

Ch 13 of W&W.

HW5: PDF, Due 10/22

HW5 solutions: Probs 1-3: PDF1,         Probs 4-5: PDF2, Probs 6-7: PDF3

 

10/17

17

Optimal power flow

McCalley

 

10/22

18

Security-constrained OPF

McCalley

Sec 13.5 of W&W. SCOPF-PDF  SCOPF-PPT; LMP, Litvinovpaper

HW6: PDF, Due 10/29

HW6solutions: Prob1: PDF1, Prob2: PDF2

 

10/24

19

Unit commitment

McCalley

Ch 5 of W&W. UCNotes: PDF

Chow, Alex, Ott, PJM-Areva, MISO1, MISO2, MISO3

 

10/29

20

Unit commitment

McCalley

SCUC Slides: PPT.

 

 

10/31

21

SCUC

McCalley

IP Slides: PPT Exam 2 summary: PPT

HW7: PDF, Due 12/3, CPLEX source: uc24a.lp

HW7 Solutions: PDF

 

11/5

22

EXAM

 

 

 

Exam 2 Solutions: PDF

 

11/7

23

Generation w/limited energy supply (fuel scheduling)

McCalley

Ch 6 of W&W; FS-PDF

 

 

11/12

25

Hydro-thermal coordination

McCalley

Ch 7 of W&W;  Hydrothermal-PDF

HW8: PDF

 

 

11/14

26

Hydro-thermal coordination

McCalley

 

 

 

11/19-11/23

 

 

 

 

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

 

11/26

27

Hydro-thermal coordination

McCalley

 

 

11/28

28

Production cost models

McCalley

Appendix 3B, Sec 5.2.2, Section 7.8 of W&W. DP Notes: PDF

 

 

12/3

29

Production cost models

McCalley

Ch 8 of W&W: Production Costing notes: PDF

Network Flows

 

 

 

12/5

30

Production cost models

McCalley

 

 

 

 

12/10-12/14

Final Exam: Monday, 12/10, 2:15-4:15

 

 

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