Syllabus B.Tech.

(Electrical Engineering), 8thsemester

8EE1A: EHV AC/DC TRANSMISSION (Common for EE and EX)
B. Tech. (Electrical) 8th Semester
3L+1T
UNIT
1

Max. Marks: 80
Exam Hours: 3
CONTENTS
CONTACT
HOURS
EHV AC Transmission: Need of EHV transmission lines, power handling capacity
4
and surge impedance loading. Problems of EHV transmission,
Bundled Conductors: geometric mean radius of bundle, properties of bundle
4
conductors. Electrostatic fields of EHV lines and their effects, corona effects: Corona
loss, audio and radio noise.
Load Frequency Control: Introduction to control of active and reactive power flow,
4
turbine speed governing system. Speed governing characteristic of generating
unit and load sharing between parallel operating generators
Method of Load Frequency Control: Flat frequency, flat tie line and tie line
4
load bias control. Automatic generation control (description of block diagram
only).
Voltage Control: No load receiving end voltage and reactive power
4
generation. Methods of voltage control. Synchronous phase modifier
Shunt capacitors and reactors, saturable reactors, Thyristorised static VAR
4
compensators- TCR, FC-TCR and TSC- TCR.
FACTS: Introduction to FACTS controllers, types of FACTS controllers, Brief
8
description of STATCOM, Thyristor controlled series capacitors and unified power
flow controller.
HVDC Transmission: Types of D.C. links, advantages and disadvantages of HVDC
4
transmission. Basic scheme and equipment of converter station. Ground return.
Basic principles of DC link control and basic converter control characteristics.
4
Application of HVDC transmission.

Text Books
S. No. Name of authors/books/publisher

Year of pub.

E. W. Kimbark: Direct Current Transmission, Vol. 1, Wiley Interscience.

1971

K. R. Padiyar: HVDC Power Transmission System, Wiley Eastern Ltd.

1990

Reference Books
S. No. Name of authors/books/publisher

Year of pub.

K. R. Padiyar: HVDC Power Transmission Systems. NEW AGE PUB

1992

J. Arrillaga: H.V.D.C Transmission, Peter Peregrines.

1983

J. Arrillaga HVDC et. al, : Computer Modelling of Electrical Power System. John
Wiley.

1993