ENEL381-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013

Electrical Machines 1

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2013
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 19 May 2013

Description

Synchronous Machines, Induction Machines (single & three phase), DC Machines (Permanent magnet machines & wire wound), Permanent magnet synchronous machines, Brushless DC machines, Switched reluctance machines, Stepper motors, Voltage regulators (e.g. moving coil), Circuit Breakers/VTs/CTs/Earth Switches, Insulation (solid/liquid/gases), characteristics & breakdown.

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Understand earthing of equipment, design an earth grid.
  • Understand the breakdown of solid, liquid and gas dielectrics and high voltage laboratory practice.
  • Develop equivalent circuits for a variety of electric machines, (synchronous, induction, transformers) and use them to analyze the steady state performance.
  • Have an understanding of practical elements of machine construction such as distribution factor, pitch factor, space and slot harmonics, and saliency and loss management.
  • Calculate transformer leakage reactance and magnetization from first principles.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

ENEL352

Course Coordinator

For further information see Electrical and Computer Engineering Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Lab Report 20%
Test 1 40%
Test 2 40%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $808.00

International fee $4,550.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Electrical and Computer Engineering .

All ENEL381 Occurrences

  • ENEL381-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013