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Overview
This rigorous tutorial is aimed at both power system professionals and electrical engineering students. Breaking down the complexities of load flow analysis into a series of short, focused chapters, the book develops each of the major algorithms used, covers the handling of generators and transformers in the analysis process, and details how these algorithms can be deployed in powerful software. Having read the book, and EE student or engineer will have all the tools necessary to predict load usage and prevent overloads, blackouts, and brownouts.
Synopsis
A MASTER CLASS IN OPTIMIZING ELECTRICITY FLOW
Prevent across-the-grid failures, as well as localized brownouts and blackouts, and accurately anticipate future usage with this rigorous tutorial on load flow analysis. Expert Lynn Powell's Power System Load Flow Analysis breaks the complex tasks involved in mathematical modeling of complicated power grids into short segments, making the computational tools of this trade easier to grasp and use. This text derives well-known major algorithms, and shows you how they are deployed in powerful software. Here's all the help you need to:
- Predict network loadings, prevent overloads, and anticipate future needs
- Model generators, transformers, and other equipment mathematically
- Solve nonlinear load flow equations
- Deploy algorithms in software
- Efficiently troubleshoot emerging problems
- Discover common causes of solution difficulties
Electrical load flow analysis is critically important in the planning and management of power networks. This expert guide gives you all the tools you need to gain a detailed understanding of the subject.
INSIDE:
System Representation
• The Load Flow Problem
• Reference System
• Jacobi Method • Gauss-Seidel Method
• Z-Matrix Methods
• Newton-Raphson Methods
• Newton-Raphson Method Using Cartesian Coordinates
• Newton-Raphson Method Using Polar Coordinates
• Fast Decoupled Method
• DC Load Flow
• Voltage Control: Generators
• Voltage Control: On-Load Tap Changing Transformers
• Results Output
• Solution Difficulties
• Appendix: Starting Voltages
Lynn Powell is an electrical engineer who is now retired after spending 40 years with various U.K. organizations: the South Wales Electricity Board, the Central Electricity Generating Board, the British Steel Corporation, and the Ministry of Defense. For virtually all that time he was engaged in power system design, for land-based and ship-based systems. He holds a master's degree in power systems engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. A Welshman by birth, he lives in Wiltshire, England.