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M.TECH. DEGREE EXAMINATION

Model Question Paper -I
Second Semester
Branch: Electrical Engineering
Specialization: Power Electronics and Power Systems
MEEPP-203 POWER SYSTEM OPERATION AND CONTROL
(2011 Admission onwards)
(Regular)
Time: Three Hours Maxm. 100 Marks

1) (a) Detail the methods used for solving hydrothermal scheduling problem.
(b) Explain the characteristics of power generation units (15 +10=25marks)
. OR
2) (a) Explain short term scheduling of hydro plants using lambda gamma iterative method.
(b) Explain scheduling of pumped storage hydro plants (15+10=25 marks)

3) (a) Discuss production cost computation using unserved load method.

(b) Calculate the production cost for the two unit system having generating system data and
load data as given below.

Table 1.
Generation data

unit Power Fuel Fuel cost Fuel Incremental Units

output Input (Rs/MBtu) cost Fuel cost Forced
(MW) (MBtu/h) rate (Rs/MWhr) outage
(Rs/h) rate
(pu)
1 0 160 1 160 --
80 800 1 800 8 0.05
2 0 80 2 160 --
40 400 2 800 16 0.10

Table 2
Load Data
 x-load Duration
(MW) (hrs)
100 20
80 60
40 20

Assume that the units are available during the entire duration.(zero outage)
(10+15=20marks)
OR
4) Explain the functions of power system security. (25 marks)
5) (a) Explain how to obtain basic solution of weighted least square estimation problem.
(b) Obtain weighted least square estimation of the variables and by using the data for

three dimensional Y vector. Assume W= .Assume H matrix suitably

(15+10=25 marks)
OR
6) (a) Explain the static state estimation of power system
(b) Explain the static state estimation of power system using injections only algorithm
(15+10=25 marks)

7) Briefly explain SCADA systems and its functions. (25 marks)

OR
8) Explain Regional and State level SCADA system (25marks)
.

[4x25=100 marks]