Paper format. National Exams, May 2015 — 07-Elec-B7 Power Systems
Engineering. Open-book, three hours, seven problems of equal value; any five constitute a
complete paper. Every problem is answered here, because the set is intended as a study
resource rather than an exam script.
Reference texts for this subject.
- M. E. El-Hawary, Electrical Power Systems: Design and Analysis, rev. ed.,
IEEE Press / Wiley — the syllabus text for 07-Elec-B7. Chapters 4 (transmission lines),
5 (synchronous machines), 3 (transformers), 6 (load flow), 7 (fault analysis) and
8 (system stability) map one-to-one onto the seven problems below.
- J. D. Glover, T. J. Overbye and M. S. Sarma, Power System Analysis and Design,
6th ed., Cengage — parallel treatment of the ABCD long-line model, symmetrical
components and the equal-area criterion.
- S. J. Chapman, Electric Machinery Fundamentals, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill —
salient-pole two-reaction theory and transformer loss/frequency behaviour.
- CSA C22.3 No. 1, Overhead Systems, and CAN/CSA C22.2 standards give the
Canadian equipment and clearance framework these calculations feed into.
