Wind Power Systems
The primary purpose of the educational programme in Wind Power Systems is to provide students with a basic knowledge within thermal, electrical and mechatronic control engineering, enabling students to understand the different energy engineering processes which found the basis for production, distribution and consumption of energy.
Name: Wind Power Systems
Type: Master of Science (MSc)
Length: 2 years
European transfer credits: 120 ECTS
Language: English
The wind industry is developing rapidly, and many new technologies
are applied and new problems arise due to the large penetration of wind
power systems into the network grid. This gives many new challenges for
wind power engineers in the future, and the MSc specialisation in Wind
Power Systems tries to assess many of the topics related to this
area.
Wind Power System (WPS) is focusing on mainly the electrical aspects in
wind power systems and ensures a high education in subjects concerning
generators, power electronics, control engineering and power system
technology in relation to wind power applications and ensures an
excellent background for job possibilities in the wind industry.
Programme description
Through the MSc specialisation in WPS the students get experience with
project work in connection with problems in the areas of Electrical
Engineering and Wind Generation Technology and the students work with
the dynamics of wind generators under normal and abnormal conditions of
duty. The dynamic behaviour of wind turbine systems, when con-necting
them to a power system with time varying loads, are analysed and the
stability in such a system is examined. Different types of wind
turbines are analysed together with their control principles and use of
power electronics interface between the wind turbines and the grid. The
specialisation should enable the students to analyze the power
electronic applications in power systems with wind turbines and to look
at the performance during power system faults and dynamics. Based on
this they should evaluate the operation and control of wind power
system to realize good power stability.
The MSc specialisation in WPS is taught in an innovative, dynamic and
challenging environment through a combination of research-based courses
and team-based project work. There is a high degree of interaction with
the wind industry, who takes an active part by providing project
proposals for the problem-oriented project work and new laboratory set
ups.
The main objectives of the syllabus may be summarized as follows:
- To provide the students with experience of project work solving real problems asso-ciated with the Electrical Engineering of Wind Generation Technology
- That the student should understand the dynamics of wind power generation under normal and abnormal conditions of duty
- To enable the students to analyze the dynamic behaviour of wind turbine systems when they are connected to a power system with time varying loads
- To enable the students to analyze the load flow in a WPS, including reactive power flow and to analyze the stability in a WPS
- To enable students to analyze the power quality of the system and to determine the need for power compensation
- To enable the student to synthesise control systems for different types of wind tur-bine systems
- To enable students to analyze the power electronics interface between the wind turbines and the grid
- To enable the students to synthesise power electronic applications in power sys-tems using wind turbines and to evaluate the performance during power system faults and during dynamic events
- To enable the student to evaluate the operation and control of wind power system to ensure acceptable power stability
Posted Mar 12, 2010 07:17 PM
