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LESSON PLAN FOR

PS 2103: ELECTRICAL TRANSIENTS IN POWER SYSTEMS

ELECTIVE FOR M.E II SEMESTER POWER SYSTEMS ONS

INSTRUCTOR: R. RAMANUJAM, VISITING PROFESSOR

PURPOSE
To expose the student to various types of transients that occur in a practical power system and
the related computational aspects.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. To gain understanding of modeling and solution methods for power system transients.

2. To build familiarity with various aspects of EMTP, the state-of-the-art industry-standard

software for practical computation of power system transients.
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Detailed Session Plan

S.NO UNIT TOPIC TITLE NO. OF REFERENCE

NO. HOURS
1 1 UNIT TITLE: REVIEW OF TRAVELLING
WAVE PHENOMENA 9 1+ instructors
notes
1.1 Lumped and Distributed Parameters 1
1.2 Wave Equation
2
1.3 Reflection, Refraction 2
1.4 Behaviour of Travelling waves at the line 1
terminations
1.5 Lattice Diagrams 2
1.6 Attenuation and Distortion 1
2 2 UNIT TITLE: LIGHTNING, SWITCHING
AND TEMPORARY OVERVOLTAGES 9 1,2,3 +
instructors
notes
2.1 Lightning overvoltages:
interaction between lightning and power system- 3
ground wire voltage and voltage across insulator
2.2 Switching overvoltage: Short line or kilometric
fault, energizing transients - closing and re-closing 3
of lines, methods of control;
2.3 Temporary overvoltages: line dropping, load 2
rejection; voltage induced by fault
2.4 Very fast transient overvoltage (VFTO). 1
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S.NO UNIT TOPIC TITLE NO. OF REFERENCE

NO. HOURS
3 3 UNIT TITLE: PARAMETERS AND
MODELLING OF OVERHEAD LINES 9 4,5 +
instructors
notes
3.1 Review of line parameters for simple 3
configurations: series resistance, inductance and
shunt capacitance; bundle conductors : equivalent
GMR and equivalent radius;
3.2 modal propagation in transmission lines: modes on
multi-phase transposed transmission lines, --0 3
transformation and symmetrical components
transformation, modal impedances;
3.3 analysis of modes on untransposed lines; 1
3.4 effect of ground return and skin effect;
transposition schemes. 2
4 4 UNIT TITLE: PARAMETERS OF 9 4,5 +
UNDERGROUND CABLES instructors
notes
4.1 Distinguishing features of underground cables: 2
technical features, electrical parameters,
overhead lines versus underground cables;
4.2 cable types; series impedance and shunt
admittance of single-core self-contained cables, 3
4.3 impedance and admittance matrices for three
phase system formed by three single-core self- 3
contained cables;
4.4 approximate for formulas for cable parameters 1

5 5 UNIT TITLE: COMPUTATION OF POWER 4,5 +

SYSTEM TRANSIENTS - EMTP 9 instructors
notes
5.1 Digital computation of line parameters: why line 2
parameter evaluation programs? salient features of
mtline;
5.2 constructional features of that affect transmission
line parameters; elimination of ground wires 3
bundling of conductors;
5.3 principle of digital computation of transients:
features and capabilities of EMTP; steady state 4
and time step solution modules: basic solution
methods.
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REFERENCES
1. Allan Greenwood, Electrical Transients in Power System, Wiley & Sons Inc. New
York, 1991.
2. Rakosh Das Begamudre, Extra High Voltage AC Transmission Engineering, (Second
edition) Newage International (P) Ltd., New Delhi, 1990.
3. Naidu M S and Kamaraju V, High Voltage Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing
Company Ltd., New Delhi, 2004.
4. Hermann W. Dommel, EMTP Theory Book, second Edition, Microtran Power System
Analysis Corporation, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 1992, Last Update:
April 1999.
5. EMTP Literature from www.microtran.com.