Prerequisites: ELEC2104 Electronic Devices and Circuits or ELEC2004 Electrical Engineering Foundations

Assumed Knowledge: Following concepts are assumed knowledge for this unit of study: familiarity with DC machines, solenoid, transformers, ac power, capacitors and inductors, and electric circuits such as three-phase circuits and circuits with switches.

Offered: Semester 1

Classes: Formal contact hours consist of two hours of lectures per week and three hours of labs and one hour of tutorial per fortnight.

Assessment: Tutorial, laboratory and project work 30%, Mid semester test 10%, Final exam 60%

This unit of study aims to give students a good understanding of electrical energy conversion techniques and equipment.

Students who successfully complete this unit will
* have a broad view of electrical energy conversion systems including transformers, DC machines, and Induction machines
* be able to solve basic analysis and design problems in these areas
* have gained confidence in their ability to undertake more advanced study in the power area

The following specific topics are covered: Single-phase and three-phase circuits, magnetic circuits, inductance, sinusoidal excitation, hysteresis and eddy current loss, permanent magnets, electromechanical energy conversion, singly-excited and doubly-excited systems, transformers, single-phase, equivalent circuit parameters, three-phase transformers, autotransformers, DC machines, DC generators, separate excitation, shunt excitation, series excitation, and compound excitation, DC motors, efficiency, armature reaction, induction machines, revolving field, equivalent circuit, squirrel cage machines, measurements of the parameters, DC resistance test, no-load test, blocked-rotor test, synchronous machines, field relationships, synchronous generators, power-angle relationships, salient pole machines.

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