1. EHV AC TRANSMISSION: Need of EHV transmission lines, power handling capacity and surge impedance loading. Problems of EHV transmission, bundled conductors geometric mean radius of bundle, properties of bundle conductors. Electrostatic fields of EHV lines and their effects, corona effects: Corona loss, audio and radio noise.

2. LOAD FREQUENCY CONTROL: Introduction to control of active and reactive power flow, trubin speed governing system. Speed governing characteristic of generating unit and parllel operation of generations. Element of load frequency control. Flat frequency, flat tie line and tie line load bias control. Automatic generation control (description of block diagram only)

3. VOLTAGE CONTROL: No load receiving end voltage and reactive power generation. Methods of voltage control. Synchronous phase modifier, shunt capacitors and reators, saturable reactors, Thynstorised static VAR compensators.

4. FACTS:  Introduction to FACTS controllers.

5. HVDC TRANSMISSION: Types of D.C. links, advantages and disadvantages of HVDC transmission. Basic scheme and equipment of converter station. Ground return. Basic principles of DC link control and basic converter control characteristics. Introduction to multiterminal  HVDC systems. Application of HVDC transmission.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

1. R.D. Begamudre-EHV AC Transmission Engineering.

2. K.R. Padiyar-HVDC Power Transmission System

3. J.J. Grainger and W.D. Stevenson-Power system analysis.

4. B.R. Gupta-Generation of Electrical Engineering.

5. K.R. Padiyar-Flexible AC transmission systems-A status review,summer school on "Recent Advances in power electronics", August 10-21, 1988, IISc Bangalore, Page 10.1 to 10.16