Eskom Centre of Excellence in HVDC Engineering

Presents 

Dr Grain Philip Adam

Senior Researcher, Technology & Innovation Center,

Institute of Energy & Environment

Dept. of Electronic & Electrical Engineering  

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Postgraduate Course Presentation

Power Electronics & HVDC Delivery Systems

+ Latest developments in Multi-terminal HVDC Networks

Time: 08.00 – 17.00 hours: Date: 22-26 February 2016

Venue: Seminar Room 2/Computer Lab

Smart Grid Building, Westville Campus

This course is aimed for postgraduate students want to specialize in electric power systems and power electronic systems (applications of power electronics in power systems). The delivery of this course will place sufficient emphasis on key issues related to power converters when they operate in power systems. Beside formal lectures, extensive computer simulations using MATLAB/Simulink will be used for illustration.

At the end of this course, each student would have achieved the following learning objectives:

• Basic understating of operating principles of the power converters and equations that govern their operation in islanding and grid-connected modes.

• Understanding of the control approaches that can be used to regulate power converters in their active and reactive-power output, and electric power exchange with the grid.

• Understanding of the major attributes and drawbacks of different power converter topologies and modulation strategies, and their appropriateness for HVDC and FACTS devices, and in power delivery system in general.

• Basic understanding of converter behaviour during operation in power systems, including special conditions such as: ac and dc network faults.

• Understanding of the power converters’ applications that manipulate active and reactive power flow to improve performance of ac power systems, including HVDC and FACTS devices.