Power systems stability: modelling of system components, automatic voltage regulators (AVRs), governors, generators, turbines, motors, loads, exciters and stabilisers. Critical clearing time using equal area criterion, stability calculations using an interactive package, load shedding, steady state and transient stability, short, medium and long-term dynamics study of system stability under network fault and disturbances. Effect of gains, damping and inertia on stability. Programmable logic controller (PLC) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). Design: introduction to PLCs, PLC programming languages, simple PLC controllers, introduction to SCADA, simple SCADA system... -- Course Website
