Abstract
This pair of papers proposes the techno-economic pedagogical (TEP) method that is suitable for designing Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) networks in transmission and distribution power grids. During the presentation of TEP method, a review of the recent research efforts concerning BPL networks across transmission and distribution power grids is given. In this first paper, TEP method demonstrates to undergraduate electrical and computer engineering (ECE) students the interaction between two apparently irrelevant fields of their ECE program: Microwave Engineering and Engineering Economics. On the basis of a set of linear simplifications and suitable techno-economic metrics concerning transmission and capacity properties of overhead High Voltage Broadband over Power Lines (HV/BPL) networks, TEP method reveals the broadband potential of overhead HV/BPL networks to ECE students when different overhead HV/BPL topologies, electromagnetic interference (EMI) regulations and noise conditions are considered. Citation: Lazaropoulos, A.G. (2015). Designing Broadband over Power Lines Networks Using the Techno-Economic Pedagogical (TEP) Method – Part I: Overhead High Voltage Networks and Their Capacity Characteristics. Trends in Renewable Energy, 1(1), 16-42. DOI: 10.17737/tre.2015.1.1.002
Highlights
Modern microwave engineering refers to the study and design of microwave circuits, components and systems as well as the characterization of correspondingTr Ren Energy, 2015, Vol.1, No.1, 16-42. doi:10.17737/tre.2015.1.1.002Peer-Reviewed Review ArticleTrends in Renewable Energy, 1 phenomena like noise, nonlinear effects, etc
Numerical Results and Discussion The simulation results of various types of overhead HV/Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) channels aim at highlighting to electrical and computer engineering (ECE) students: (i) their broadband performance; (ii) how their capacity is influenced by various inherent and imposed factors; (iii) the influence of electromagnetic interference (EMI) regulations and noise conditions on the used techno-economic metrics; and (iv) the adaptive capacity mitigation technique that redefines the EMI regulations by taking into account noise conditions
This paper presents techno-economic pedagogical (TEP) method that is suitable for the study and the design of overhead High Voltage Broadband over Power Lines (HV/BPL) networks from ECE students
Summary
Modern microwave engineering refers to the study and design of microwave circuits, components and systems as well as the characterization of corresponding. The hybrid method, which is a careful cascade of well-known microwave engineering techniques, comprises: (i) the bottom-up approach: It combines MTL theory with similarity transformations determining the excited modes of overhead HV MTL configurations in terms of their propagation constants; and (ii) the top-down approach: It consists of the concatenation of multidimensional T-matrices of network modules (TM2 method) having as outputs some important techno-economic metrics of overhead HV/BPL networks such as end-to-end channel attenuation and capacity As it is verified in this paper, the set of linear simplifications transforms the complicated hybrid method into a straightforward process without seriously affecting the validity and the accuracy of the used techno-economic metrics.
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