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(In Mohan's text unless otherwise noted.)
Read Chapter 12
Do 12.4
Optional: Sioux Center Substation Failure
Armature Reaction, Power flow equations
Start-up procedures, operating regions
Read Chapter 9
Do 9.5, 9.6, 9.7
Optional: U of Tenn grid angle map
U of Tenn Tornados disturb the grid
Prof. Overbye: Genesis of the 2003 blackout
Read Ch. 6 Sections 1, 2 in Mohan.
Do 6.1, 6.2
Optional videos on construction of power
transformers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Read Section 4.4.4 (p64) through the end of
the Chapter. Also read Appendix 4A, pp75-77.
Do 4-17 and 4-18 found only here. Also do
4.3, 4.4, 4.5 in Mohan's textbook.
Optional: Galloping transmission lines
More galloping transmission lines
Anti-galloping patent
14 videos from Bonneville Power
Note: On Monday, 10/19 Prof. De Boer announced in
class that this problem set's due date would be
changed from 10/22 to 10/29.
Energy and the environment
Read: Ch.3, Ch. 4 through 4.4.3 (p. 63) and
Granger & Stevenson's text p34-35 and
the Wikipedea articale on the circular mil
1 circular mil = (1.6129 x 10-10)
m2 (exactly)Do 3.18, 3.21, 3.23, 3.24, in Mohan's textbook
and 4.1, 4.2 in Saadat's textbook
Recommended: Virtual tour--coal fired plant
Optional: Fukushima Daiichi update, 2013
Hydroelectric plant virtual tour
Fort Calhoun nuclear=Fukushima?
per-unit quantities, Review E & M,
Electric energy and the environment
Read A&S Ch. 12 Sec. 10, 11, Mohan 2.5, 2.6
D in A&S 12.67, 12.69, 12.72, 12.81,
and in Mohan, 2.8.
Note: errata in 12.69, 12.72.
Optional: Rock Island Clean Line Project (9:03)
RICL is NOT needed (3:50)
IL Farm Bureau against RICL (6:49)
namely Y-Y, Y-Δ, Δ-Y, Δ-Δ,
Y-Δ transformation, per-phase analysis,
3-phase power calculations.
Read A&S Ch. 12 Sections 1 through 7.
Mohan Ch 2 Section 4.
Note errata in A&S Ch 12 p506–551.
Also note errata in answer to Problem 12.31.
Do in A&S 12.8, 12.9, 12.13, 12.16, 12.21,
12.31, 12.41, and in Mohan, 2.9, 2.11
Note errata on Problems 12.8 and 12.16.
Optional Video: One Line Diagram Tutorial
RMS Voltage and Current, Complex Pwr,
Apparent Power, Power Factor
Read A&S Ch. 11 (all Sections)
Also read more about A&S Eq. 11.5 and
Eq 11.38a. Also note errata on page 471.
Also read Chapter 2 Sections 1 – 3 in Mohan.
Do in A&S 11.2, 11.5, 11.27, 11.73, 11.74
Also do in Mohan, 2.2, 2.3
Note errata on problems 11.5 and 11.73.
Also note a systematic error in Chapter 11.
Optional videos: Kaplan turbine (5:02)
Fabrication and Assembly of a Francis Turbine
Pelton turbine (5:09)
Francis Turbine (4:14)
Why 3-Phase Power? (4:47)
Sinusoidal Steady Analysis
Read A&S Ch. 9, Sections 4 through 7.
and A&S Ch. 10, Sections 1 through 4
and Mohan, Chapter 2 Section 2.1
Do in Alexander and Sadiku, 9.31, 9.34, 9.43,
9.45, 9.93, 10.27, 10.41
Hint on 9.45: What happens if the left-hand
2 Ω resistor is shorted out?
Read Alexander & Sadiku 4e (A&S)
Ch 9, Sec. 1-3.
Do in Alexander and Sadkiku,
9.5, 9.6, 9.8, 9.16, 9.18
Optional video: Stolen Copper (2:49)
Read Ch. 1
Do 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Note: The due date was originally erroneously shown
as 8/26