Power System Operation and Control
Next step. Wel, errrr, next exam I mean. Power system Operation and Control. PSOC as we lovingly ?? call it. A core EEE paper. The problem with this particular paper is, the Anna University panel that was supposed to decide the syllabus were either drunk or dozed off when deciding the syllabus or the person who was responsible for typing out the syllabus had a prolonged seizure or something. The effect -> sad syllabus, that makes you wonder what am I studying ?? Syllabus looks like someone made a collage with some selected words from the prescribed book that’s neither in any order nor has any meaning.
Ill tell you why exactly. I have 3 prescribed books. namely,
1) “Power System Stability and Control” by Prabha Kundur
2) “Electric Energy Systems Theory” by Olle.L.Elgerd
3) “Power Generation, Operation and Control” by Wood & Wollenberg
While all of the above books are great in their own merit, Power Systems is a vast subject and it’s probably even supposed to be for masters courses. I especially like Wood, by Wiley Press. Cool Book!! Almost all Wiley books I have used rock.
And all these put together and the reference books as well, don’t have the complete syllabus!! Wow!! And by the time you find the syllabus in the book, you will faint. And what’s the point anyway. I don’t even know what they want us to learn, and even if I did, it is spread across so many books in precious little, that my time is anyway wasted in turning pages. Kudos AU!! Way to go!!
Most of Anna Univ’s syllabus is like that. Random passages from a few textbooks that some fool thinks is important to engineering.
Marc
November 17, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Sadly true!! As for my typos and me being drunk
sorry, was a little groggy actually. Just got up form sleep when I had a nightmare that made me get up!! reg: Anna University ofcourse
Karthik
November 17, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Hi, I came across your blog while looking up Kundur’s book. Does anyone know any application engineers or EE’s working in the Power Systems area? I’d like to do some speak w/professionals or profs on Power Protection Systems for a paper I’m doing. Thx-MK
Molly K
November 19, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Hi Molly,
Nice to see you on the blog. I am an Electrical Engineer myself (Atleast in the making. I am doing my final year Engineering.) Though I must confess that I am no expert in Power Systems, I do have some experience with it. Especially if it is concerned with programming with either C or even m-files.
Regarding the professors, I am not sure many Indian professors encourage correspondance over the web. My suggestion would be that you visit some IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) website and look for contacts of professors there
Karthik
November 20, 2007 at 9:37 am
Correction: Indian professors don’t know how to correspond over the web, for the most part. They are still figuring out email and we expect them to be done by 2035.
Go IIT and SSN. Skip the rest.
Marc
November 20, 2007 at 10:35 am
Yes, actually true!! But also, even if they knew to use the web, they don’t know much about the subjects!! For instance our college lecturers. (For others’ benefit, Marc and I belong to the same college, sadly
)
Karthik
November 20, 2007 at 12:59 pm
My college lecturers are experts only at checking their email. And some of them are on Orkut from the college lab.
Marc
November 21, 2007 at 10:21 am
Hi Karthik
I Like with your study about “Power System Operation and Control”
Can You help me to answer problem 8.1 in chapter 8 from this book?
You can send the answer to my email address rudy_pe@yahoo.com.
thanks regard for your help
Rudy
November 21, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Hi Rudy,
I am not sure I get which book you are referring to. Is it Wood and Wollenberg ?
Karthik
November 21, 2007 at 3:22 pm
What the!
Marc
November 21, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Hi Karthik
Yes, it is Wood and Wollenberg ’s book
Can You help me to answer problem 8.1 in chapter 8 from this book?
You can send the answer to my email address rudy_pe@yahoo.com
Please Help me, I difficult to solve this
Problem.
Thanks alot for your help
Rudy Permana
November 22, 2007 at 8:27 am
hi,
this is harini das. iam a finalyear engg student in vtu. well if u think AU papers are the worst u havent seen our papers.yet, my fav subjects have been power system analyis and stability and psoc.reason we have kickass notes that no vtu paper has outdone yet.i suppose our syllabus must be simlar,since refearences are same.but try these books…modern power system-by nagrath and kothari,a book by stevenson,i dont remember the title.ill get beck to u on that..we refered 5 books and came up with good notes.u can mail me at harini_ind@rediffmail.com…probably i can help..
ashi
December 3, 2007 at 10:34 am
Hi Harini,
Nice to see someone from VTU on my blog.
The book by Nagrath and Kothari is almost a page by page copy of the book by Olle L Elgred. Both Nagrath and Kothari are acclaimed Engineers, but I guess even they needed to refer to some book.The advantage with this book is that its more Indianised.
The book by Stevenson and Granger is pretty good. For Power System Analysis I found the book by “Haadi Saadat” pretty good as I am inclined towards programming.
Karthik
December 3, 2007 at 11:05 am
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
Idetrorce
December 15, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Idetrorce,
What are you disagreeing on ?
Karthik
December 15, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Hi, i’m doin my final yr EEE in VTU. I badly need notes for Computer tech in power system if any1 has pls forward it to me. if u people ve got any 8th sem q-papers of regular and CCN + Computer control of electric drives pls send me or even any notes k…. my email is kiranpreddy05@gmail.com
kitty
December 19, 2007 at 10:13 am
Hello Kitty!
Marc
December 19, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Hi Kitty,
I personally do not have any of your requirements, but I am sure that if people who visit this page have it, they will mail it to you
All the best with that.
@Marc,
I know how much you like to greet people on my blog
Karthik
December 20, 2007 at 2:40 pm
hi karthik
This is NAren
well last week i went to ur blog and saw converzation b/w u and u r friend
i am a EEE guy
i am doing a Project on Studies (LOAD FLOWs)
can u help me in this way
can u have Programming code in Load flow
Please if u have send it to me
mail me at narendrakpt@gmail.com
Thanks
Regards
NAren
Naren
January 4, 2008 at 4:13 am
Hi Naren,
If you are in EEE you should have done Load Flow analysis in your ‘Power System Simulation’ Lab.
I have the code I guess. I shall search for the same and then mail it to you. I doubt if it will help you much though.
Karthik
January 4, 2008 at 6:16 am
hi
iam amr said from egypt
i need new and important topics in power system and control branch
plz send me at my email(engineer_amr33@yahoo.com)
thanx
appending your other comment here,
i want be amember of this group
my email is ( engineer_amr33@yahoo.com )
i will wait u to send me important topics in power system on my email
thanx
amr said
March 1, 2008 at 8:33 am
@amr,
Welcome to the blog. I don’t really know what you mean by new and important topics.
Also, there is no membership required for discussions here. You can type in a comment any time you like. This way, we could even have discussions.
Karthik
March 1, 2008 at 10:25 am
Amr, Karthik is giving you wrong information. There is a $10 fee for membership here. Please contact me to pay the amount.
Marc
March 1, 2008 at 11:14 am
@Marc,
Why would I give wrong information on my blog where I ask people not to pay ? It would b wrong information only if I asked them to pay.
Karthik
March 1, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Unless what I said was true.
Marc
March 1, 2008 at 5:51 pm
I would just like to add one more book to the ones u have already said above its out of print but u can still find copies in some old book stores……..its from the man who started it all Leon Kirchmeyer……….there are two books on the topic by him the first one is Economic Operation of Power Systems, I dont remember the second title but its on the same lines
M.A.Nayeem
July 24, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Hai Karthik I liked ur talent but I wanted presentation on Power system operation and control as I selected it as my presentation topic.I’m studing in Govt. polytechnic Bellary in Vsem E&E diploma plz plz can u help me.If u wish send it to my ID smasher_123@rocketmail.com.I hope u wil Plz plz
Manju
September 20, 2008 at 12:08 am
very good idea
all the best
kishore
October 23, 2008 at 12:16 pm
@Manju,
If you are interested, you should make the presentation yourself. It’s a pity that people browse all over the internet looking for ready made presentations.
Karthik
October 25, 2008 at 2:46 pm
hi there
my name is Alebel from Ethiopia and I’m writing to ask if you know some downloadable books related to power system operation and control or power system planning and management.
thank you
alebel
November 8, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Hi:)
So many electrical engineers…Am an electrical and electronic engineering student myself in my final year at the university of Mauritius.Trying to solve a problem.Searching for the book power analysis by Nagrath and kothari.(Recommended textbook by lecturer:)
Ansuya
January 28, 2009 at 8:52 pm
hi karthick…
i’m a student of final yr eee.. in the stage of project. i chose the project in unit commitment and i took the reference example as problem no 5e in allen j wood. pls pls pls tell me how to find the production cost in that problem…its too urgent pls reply me as soon as possible….and my email id is harikartee@gmail.com
hari kartee
February 19, 2009 at 10:39 pm