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MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Spring 2004 Catalogue Supplement |
L MW 2:30-4, Room 36-153
Professor James Kirtley, Room 10-098, 3-2357
Prereq.: permission of instructor
3-0-9
This subject qualifies as an Electrodynamics and Energy Systems concentration subject.
A seminar on planning and operation of modern electric power systems. Content varies with current interests of instructor and class; emphasis on engineering aspects, but economic issues may be examined too. Core topics include: overview of power system structure and operation; representation of components, including transmission lines, transformers, generating plants, loads; power flow analysis, dynamics and control of multimachine systems, steady-state and transient stability, system protection; economic dispatch; mobil and isolated power systems; computation and simulation.