ECE 667 - Sustainable Distributed Generation
Instructor
Professor
Ehab
F.
El-Saadany
Office:
E3
4111,
office
hours
to
be
determined
on
student's
feedback
Phone:
519-888-4567
extension
33053
E-mail:
ehab@uwaterloo.ca
Course Summary
- This course deals with the essential aspects of Distributed Generation (DG), starting from the drivers for these technologies, their key types to the detail issues associated with their operation and planning.
- The contents of this course can be divided into three main parts; general issues, operation, planning and economics.
- The general issues part deals mainly with the drivers for distributed generation, definitions, key types, and interface connections.
- The operation part includes technical impacts of distributed generation installation, reliability issues and required protective schemes, power quality issues, operation of flexible distributed generation.
- The planning and economics part is dedicated to highlight different planning strategies and economical impacts of distributed generation installation.
Course Objectives
- To provide a good understanding of different distributed generation technologies.
- To train distribution engineers on how to operate distribution networks with embedded generation.
- To enhance the protection aspects of distribution system with distributed generation.
- To introduce the state of the art techniques in distributed generation planning.
- To highlight the economical benefits from installing distributed generation.
Course Outline
-
Introduction
to
Renewable
Energy
Source
and
Distributed
Generation
- Part 1 - Introduction to DG
- Part 2 - Overview of DG Technologies
-
Construction,
Characteristics,
Modeling,
and
Interfacing
of
Common
DG
Energy
Sources
- Part 3 - Wind Power
- Part 4 - PV Power, Fuel Cell Power, and Micro-turbine Power
- Part 5 - Prediction of Renewable DG power, Operational Control of DG, and Interconnection Standards
-
Distribution
System
Planning
with
DG
- Part 6 - Distribution System Planning with DG
-
Operational
Issues
of
DG
- Part 7 - Power Quality
- Part 8 - Voltage Regulation
- Part 9 - System Protection And Islanded Operation
- Part 10 - Interconnection Requirement
-
Economics
of
DG
- Part 11 - Economics of DG
Marking Scheme
- Two assignments, each is 10% (total of 20%)
- Course Presentation; 10%
- Course Project; 25%
- Final examination; 45%
Reference Books
- H. Lee Willis, and Walter G. Scott “Distributed Power Generation: Planning and Evaluation (Power Engineering, 10)”, Marcel Dekker (January, 2000).
- Anne-Marie Borbely, and Jan F. Kreider, “Distributed Generation”, CRC Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8493-0074-6.
- Nick Jenkins, Ron Allan, Peter Crossley, Daniel Kirschen, and Goran Strbac, “Embedded Generation”, IEE Press, 2000, ISBN 0-85296-774-8.
Additional Reading Material
- Students will also be provided with a reading list for further information on each topic. This list will be attached at the end of each lecture.
- The majority of this information will be IEEE Transactions papers which can be accessed from the web through the IEEE Xplore digital library.