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Electric generators and transformers

Course title: Electric generators and transformers

Code: FEIT02Z006

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: Passed: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering 1

Course goals/Competences: Introduction to the operation of electric generators and transformers. Competence for selection of generators and transformers, according to their place in the power system, as well as analysis of their characteristics.

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: Generators. Types of generators. Structural characteristics of the different types of generators (synchronous, asynchronous). Turbo generator and hydro generators. Micro generators. Mathematical model. Phasor diagrams. Synchronous reactance. Synchronization. No load and short circuit characteristics. Loading diagram. Autonomous operation of generators. Parallel operation of generators on the network. Transformers. Introduction to power transformers. Types of transformers. Operating modes: no load, load, short circuit. Equivalent scheme. Vector groups of three phase transformers. Parallel operation Autotransformers.

Literature:

Literature

Compulsory literature

 

Author

 

Title

 

Publisher

 

Year

 

 

Ion Boldea

 

The Electric Generators Handbook

 

CRC Press;

 

2005

 

 

James H. Harlow

 

Electric Power Transformer Engineering

 

CRC Press

 

2003

 

 

A. E. Fitzgerald, Charles Kingsley

 

 

Electric machinery

 

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 6 ed.

 

 

2002

 

 

Further literature

 

Author

 

Title

 

Publisher

 

Year

 

 

Ray Arnold, Martin Heathcote

 

 

J & P Transformer Book, Thirteenth Edition

 

 

Newnes

 

 

2007

 

 

B. S. Guru, H. R. Hiziroglu

 

 

Electric Machinery and Transformers

 

 

Oxford University Press,

 

 

2000