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Power Quality

Course Code :
EPR 533
Level :
Undergraduate
Course Hours :
3.00 Hours
Department :
Department of Electrical Engineering

Instructor information :

Title:Professor
Name: Almoataz Youssef Abdelaziz Mohamed Abdelmaguied
Office hours:9-Hours

Title:Assistant Lecturer
Name: Ahmed Moreab Hussien Mohamed
Office hours:2-Hours

Area of Study :

-Develop students’ understanding about the fundamentals of power quality. -Help students identify the main terminology and standards of power quality. -Train the students to apply different techniques of solving power quality problems. - Help the students to recognize the measuring devices and methods for the power quality problems.

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Power Quality

Power Quality Fundamentals: Definition, Terminology, Criteria, Standards. Voltage Sags: Characteristics, Mitigation, Voltage Fluctuations and Lamp Flicker. Power Frequency Disturbance: Disturbances, Low Frequency Disturbances, Voltage Tolerance Criteria - ITIC Graph. Electrical Transients: Modeling, Types and Causes. Harmonics: Voltage and Current Harmonics, Individual and Total Harmonic Distortion. Power Factor: Power Factor Improvement, Advantages of Power Factor Correction. Measuring and Solving Power Quality Problems: Measurement Devices.

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Power Quality

Course outcomes:

a. Knowledge and Understanding:

1-	Recognize the concepts and basic principles of power quality
2-	Identify various solutions for different power quality problems, especially harmonics and power factor correction
3-	Describe techniques for computer modeling, simulation, rendering and presentation of power quality items
4-	Identify the requirements related to voltage levels and its related quality

b. Intellectual Skills:

1-	Express power quality problems using mathematical formulation
2-	Apply different solutions for grounding and bonding methods
3-	Decide the choice among different solution alternatives for power factor enhancement.
4-	Evaluate obtained results of using power quality devices such as harmonic filters.

c. Professional and Practical Skills:

1-	Prepare and present technical reports on different power quality problems in the industry.

d. General and Transferable Skills:

1-	Effectively manage tasks, time, and resources.

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Power Quality

Course topics and contents:

Topic	No. of hours	Lecture	Tutorial/Practical
Introduction	5	3	2
Power Quality Fundamentals: Terms and Definitions	15	9	6
Voltage Sags and Interruptions	10	6	4
Electrical Transients	11	6	5
Voltage Regulation	10	6	4
Power Factor Improvement	10	6	4
Harmonics	14	9	5

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Power Quality

Teaching And Learning Methodologies:

Teaching and learning methods
Interactive Lecture
Discussion
Problem-based learning
Report

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Power Quality

Course Assessment :

Methods of assessment	Relative weight %	Assess What
• Final exam	40.00	to assess the performance of students during the course
o Assignments	10.00
o Mid-Term exams	30.00
o Quizzes	10.00
o Reports	10.00

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Power Quality

Books:

Book	Author	Publisher

Course notes :

No course notes are required

Recommended books :

R. C. Dugan, M. F. McGranaghan, S. Santoso and H. W. Beaty, ‘Electrical Power Systems Quality’, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill, 2012. 8.2 Recommended Books 1- Bhim Singh, Ambrish Chandra, Kamal Al-Haddad, “Power Quality: Problems and Mitigation Techniques”, Wiley; 2015. 2- C. Sankaran, ‘Power Quality’, CRC Press, 2002. 3- Alexander Kusko and Marc T. Thompson, ‘Power Quality in Electrical Systems’, McGraw Hill, 2007.