EE 525 Power System Applications of Power Electronics
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Fall 2014
1 Course Overview
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EE 525 Power System Applications of Power Electronics
Three credit hours; graduate level
Fall 2014
Prof. Ali Mehrizi-Sani
mehrizi@eecs.wsu.edu
EME 35
(509) 335-6249
(509) 335-3818
SLOA 38
Tuesday and Thursday from 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
http://eecs.wsu.edu/~mehrizi/ee525/2014F
• Mondays from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM; or
• Email me for an appointment with “EE 525” in the subject line.
TA Name
TA Email
TA Office Hours
Catalog Description
Longer Description
Mehrdad Yazdanian
m.yazdanian@email.wsu.edu
Please coordinate with Mehrdad. His office is SLOA 313.
Principles of operation of power electronic converters in modern power systems;
FACTS, HVDC, microgrids, integration of renewables; modeling and control.
This course discusses the applications of power electronics for the smart grid
focusing on the flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) devices. EE 525, in
general, discusses HVDC transmission, series and shunt compensation, and phase
shifters. This course will also discuss modeling and control of such devices. The
goals of this course are to introduce you to (i) power electronics converter used in
high power applications, (ii) applications of power electronics in the smart grid;
and (iii) analysis, modeling, and control methods employed for power electronics.
2 Required Background by Topic
You need to have taken the following courses. For each course, the topics that will be used in this course
are listed. A general knowledge of other topics typically covered in the respective course is preferred.
Power Electronics (EE 486 at WSU) Basics of analysis techniques for power electronic converters.
Power Systems (EE 491 at WSU) Basics of power system analysis, e.g., power flow and compensation.
PSCAD/EMTDC You will need this software package to do some of the assignments of the course. A
student version of PSCAD is available for download at https://mycentre.hvdc.ca (watch the video
“How to get the Free version”). Several short tutorial videos are available on the same website. You
can ask me or your TA your PSCAD questions. You can also use the support request form from
within PSCAD. A user forum is available at bb.pscad.com.
MATLAB/SIMULINK You also need to be familiar with MATLAB for the programming assignments.
Students who wish to have MATLAB on their own personal computers can purchase MATLAB
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Student Version from the Bookie or from http://www.mathworks.com/store. One great source is
“MATLAB Programming Tips,” available from The MathWorks for free at http://www.mathworks.
com/help/pdf_doc/matlab/programming_tips.pdf.
3 Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, you are expected to be able to
• Explain the purpose and principles of operation of FACTS devices;
• Analyze the nonsinusoidal voltage and/or current resulting from a FACTS device;
• Compare and contrast different compensation methods (series, shunt, hybrid, and phase);
• Analyze the steady-state operation of a VSC and harmonic elimination techniques;
• Design a controller for a VSC based on application, e.g., a STATCOM application;
• Derive the dynamic model of a given FACTS device; and
• Compare different modes of operation of a microgrid based on available standards.
4 Course Topics
The course topics include
• Course overview
• Review of power electronics
• Review of steady-state power flow
• Converter dynamic model and control, reference frames
• Applications of converters for compensation of transmission systems, e.g., shunt, series, and hybrid
compensation, such as switched capacitor, static synchronous compensator (STATCOM), static VAR
compensator (SVC), thyristor-controlled reactor (TCR), thyristor-controlled series capacitor (TCSC),
thyristor-switched series capacitor (TSSC), static synchronous series compensator (SSSC), unified
power flow controller (UPFC), and interphase power flow controller (IPFC).
• High-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems
• Wind power systems (time permitting)
• Microgrids and integration of distributed energy resource (DER) units (time permitting)
Below is the approximate course schedule (the texts in crimson and green are hyperlinked). Important
dates are also marked. Due to necessary travel, we will have a few make-up classes on Thursdays at 3:45 PM
(unless otherwise stated). These make-up classes are marked below as MUP and will be held in the same
classroom. However, in lieu of some of the make-up classes, I may provide narrated slides.
The table below includes links to simulation files. To download PSCAD simulation cases, click on the
green link and then press Ctrl-S (Save) in your browser. Make sure the file is saved with an extension of
.pscx, and not .pscx.txt.
Week
W1
Aug. 25
W2
Sept. 1
Topic
Reading and Notes
T No class—CIGRE Session
R No class—CIGRE Session
T Overview of the course and policies;
T Slides.
LATEX
R Review of power system and power
electronics; overview of series compensation
R LATEX resources (Getting something out of
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LATEX; LATEX Wikibook; The Art of LATEX;
A (not so) Short Introduction to LATEX; TEX
StackExchange; TikZ graphics in LATEX)
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T No class—NAPS
T
R Overview of shunt compensation;
R Hingorani §1 and §2; Mathur §2; Definitions
W5
Sept. 22
for FACTS
T
|BuckConverter
PSCAD
VSC
W4
T VSC operation
Sept. 15 R PSCAD simulation
MUP PSCAD simulation,
PWM
PSCAD
W3
Sept. 8
|FullAndHalfBridge
R Hart §8; Hingorani §3
harmonics of
MUP Make-up for Aug. 26 (Thurs)
T VSC modeling
T Homework 1 IEEE: Vector control of ad-
R Reference frames (αβ and dq)
vanced static VAr compensators
R Yazdani §4, Instantaneous Power Theory by
Akagi §3
MUP Controller design
MUP Make-up for Aug. 28 (Thurs)
T Shunt compensation
T Hingorani §5
R TCR
R Hingorani §5; Mathur §3
MUP TCR
T FC-TCR; TSC-TCR
T Homework 1 due
R TSC; comparison of shunt compen-
R Homework 2 IEEE Std 519
sators
MUP VSC dq control and TCR simulation
MUP Make-up for Oct. 30 (Thurs)
|VSCcontrol
W8
Oct. 13
PSCAD
W7
Oct. 6
MUP Make-up for Oct. 28 (Thurs)
PSCAD
W6
Sept. 29
|TCR
T Project Proposal Due IEEE: SCE SVC •
T STATCOM
IEEE: TVA Statcon • Hingorani §5.2.2, §5.2.3
R Auxiliary functions of compensation
R
MUP Series compensation
MUP Make-up for Nov. 13 (Thurs)
W9
Oct. 20
T GCSC, TCSC, TSSC
T Homework 2 due
R SSSC, phase shifters
R Homework 3
MUP TCPAR, TCVAR
W10
Oct. 27
MUP Make-up for Nov. 18 (Thurs)
T No class—IECON 2014
R No class—IECON 2014
W11
Nov. 3
T TCPAR
R UPFC
MUP UPFC comparison
W11
Nov. 10
T Homework 3 due
R
MUP Make-up for Nov. 20 (Thurs)
T No class—University Holiday
R No class—Visiting TUG
W12
Nov. 17
T No class—Visiting TUG
R No class—Visiting TUG
W∗
Nov. 24
Thanksgiving break
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W13
Dec. 1
T
T
R AC filter design
R
MUP AC filter design
MUP Make-up for Dec. 9 (Thurs)
MUP Project Presentations
MUP Make-up for Dec. 11 (Friday)
Homework 4
W14
Dec. 8
Final
T No class—PSERC/SCE
T Project Report Due
R No class—PSERC/SCE
Final Exam,1 Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014
8:00 AM to 10:00 AM
T Homework 4 due; Final Exam Solution
1 http://www.registrar.wsu.edu/Registrar/Content/FinalExams20143.pdf
5 Textbook
No textbook is required. The following are good references for FACTS.
1. R. M. Mathur and R. K. Varma, Thyristor-Based FACTS Controllers for Electrical Transmission Systems. New York, NY: Wiley-IEEE Press, 2002. [Online]. Available: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=5265762
2. N. G. Hingorani and L. Gyugyi, Understanding FACTS: Concepts and Technology of Flexible AC Transmission Systems. New York, NY: Wiley-IEEE Press, 2000. [Online]. Available: http://ieeexplore.ieee.
org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=5264253
3. A. Yazdani and R. Iravani, Voltage-Sourced Converters in Power Systems: Modeling, Control, and Applications. New York, NY: Wiley-IEEE Press, 2010. [Online]. Available: http://washingtonstate.worldcat.
org/oclc/609861255
The following are useful references for power electronics:
1. H. Akagi, E. H. Watanabe, and M. Aredes, Instantaneous Power Theory and Applications to Power Conditioning. Hoboken, NJ: IEEE-John Wiley, 2007.
2. D. W. Hart, Power Electronics.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011, 512 pp.
3. M. H. Rashid, Ed., Power Electronics Handbook: Devices, Circuits, and Applications, 3rd ed. Burlington,
MA: Elsevier, 2011, 1417 pp.
4. Y. H. Song and A. T. Johns, Eds., Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS).
Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1999.
London, UK: The
6 Evaluation
Your performance in this course will be assessed based on the components shown below. Failure to
complete assigned work or to take a test results in a zero for that portion of your grade, unless you have
a compelling reason because of an emergency. For submission format, see Subsection 6.1.
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Assignments (30%) Approximately 4 assignments. Generally you will have about
two weeks to work on each assignment. Each assignment report has to be submitted electronically by the midnight of the due date (typically Wednesdays)
through the course website.
Please try all assignments; they will help you in preparing for the final exam.
Extra credit may be given for an extraordinary assignment at the discretion of
the instructor, e.g., solving bonus problems, an elegant solution, a comprehensive discussion, or an especially neat and tidy submission.
Final Project (40%) See Subsection 6.2 below.
Final Exam (30%) Two-hour comprehensive exam.
Class Participation (0%) But class attendance is required and no more than three
absences will be allowed, unless with prior permission. Class participation can
help you when in the boundary of letter grades.
6.1
Letter
Range
A
A−
B+
B
B−
C+
C
C−
D
F
[90, 100]
[85, 90)
[80, 85)
[75, 80)
[70, 75)
[65, 70)
[60, 65)
[55, 60)
[50, 55)
[0, 50)
Submission Format
For all work in this course (e.g., assignment and project) that needs preparing a written document, the
following guidelines will be strictly enforced.
All submission have to be electronic (only PDF files are accepted) and through the course webiste.
Name the file according to the following pattern: EE525_???_Lastname_Firstname.PDF, where ??? is
“HW#,” “PRJ,” or “PRP,” for homework assignment, project report, or project proposal, respectively.
The report must be in IEEE double-column style. Both TEX and Word templates are available on IEEE
Author Digital Toolbox at http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/authors_
journals.html. You can choose between Word and LATEX (or other tools), but to encourage producing
beautiful technical documents, submissions that use LATEX will receive 5% bonus (mark+ = 5%). Late
submissions are accepted but marked at 20% reduction per day unless there is valid justification; that is,
one day late: maximum mark 80%, two days: 60%, three days: 40%, four days: 20%, and five days: 0%.
You may discuss your work with your fellow students, but each person has to submit a separate and
original report.
6.2
Final Project
The final project is an important part of this course. The project is where you apply the analysis methods
covered in class to a design problem, which will have a significant simulation component. Please start
thinking about the project early. Ideally you would select a project related to your thesis; I suggest you
discuss your project with your supervisor to select a relevant topic. I do not require a “novel” contribution,
but any innovation that leads to publishable material will guarantee a full mark for the project. Depending on the
scope of the project, you can form teams of up to two people. The project report describes your design,
identifies challenges, and includes simulation cases in PSCAD.
The project topics can include
• Case study, e.g., harmonics due to shunt compensation;
• Performance evaluation, e.g., effects of series compensation on mechanical modes;
• Design, e.g., design of controllers for an electronically interfaced DER unit;
• Reproducing the results in a published Transactions paper (and probably improving them); or
• Any combination of the above.
The project deliverables, all in PDF and communicated as described above, are as follows.
10%: Project Proposal (Due Oct. 14, 2014) The project proposal (maximum one page) includes the title
and objective of your selected project.
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50%: Project Presentation (on Dec. 5, 2014—a Friday) Each team will make a 12-minute presentation followed by a 5-minute question and answer period. The 12-minute limit is strict and will be enforced
(a good time management practice for you). Each person is expected to ask at least (number of
presentations: 4)/3 questions. The project presentation will be graded according to the following
rubric:
20%: Time limit
20%: Visual appeal of your slides Don’t overuse color, animations, or text. If you have blocks of
text in your slide, read them out, but there are very rare instances when you’d want to put a
block of text on your slide.
20%: Technical validity
20%: Problem statement Include a slide entitled “Problem Statement” and explicitly mention the
problem you are addressing.
20%: Articulation of contributions Include a slide entitled “Contributions” and explicitly mention
your contributions. Contributions are different from conclusions.
40%: Project Report (Due Dec. 9, 2014) The project results should be included in a final report in no more
than 5 pages. Similar to a standard paper, the report should include title, abstract, introduction,
methodology, simulation and results, discussion, future work and conclusion, and references. The
project report will be graded according to the following rubric:
70%: Technical correctness Your method, simulation, and results should be technically sound. Your
report should be clear and reader-friendly.
20%: English and format Use standard American (not British) English. Specifically, you will be
graded according to the handout “Writing in Academia” that is posted on the course website
(see http://eecs.wsu.edu/~mehrizi/LIPE_WritingInAcademia.pdf).
10%: Q&A Incorporate corrections/modifications/suggestions made during your presentation in
the project report.
7 Academic Integrity
I encourage you to work with classmates on assignments. However, each student must turn in original
work. No copying will be accepted. Students who violate WSU’s Standards of Conduct for Students will
receive an F as a final grade in this course, will not have the option to withdraw from the course and
will be reported to the Office Student Standards and Accountability. Cheating is defined in the Standards
for Student Conduct WAC 504-26-010 (3). It is strongly suggested that you read and understand these
definitions. Please also see http://academicintegrity.wsu.edu.
8 Students with Disabilities
Reasonable accommodations are available for students with a documented disability. If you have a disability and need accommodations to fully participate in this class, please either visit or call the Access
Center (Washington Building 217; (509) 335-3417; Access.Center@wsu.edu) to schedule an appointment
with an Access Advisor. All accommodations MUST be approved through the Access Center. For more
information, see http://accesscenter.wsu.edu.
9 Safety and Emergency Notification
Washington State University is committed to enhancing the safety of the students, faculty, staff, and visitors. It is highly recommended that you review the Campus Safety Plan (http://safetyplan.wsu.edu) and
visit the Office of Emergency Management web site (http://oem.wsu.edu) for a comprehensive listing of
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university policies, procedures, statistics, and information related to campus safety, emergency management, and the health and welfare of the campus community.
10 Disclaimer
Information contained in this document may and will change as required during the semester. Such
changes will be communicated to you via email, in class, and/or on the website. Please make sure you
attend all lectures to stay up-to-date. Most course material, e.g., assignments, grades, and extra readings,
will be communicated through the website. I encourage you to discuss any difficulties you may have in
this course with me or with your TA.
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