Lightning Protection and Transient Overvoltage

Course Description

The course explains the fundamental principles of lightning protection and gives step by step instructions to manage lightning protection for transmission and distribution lines, high voltage substations, and industrial applications. It is designed to provide a background in lightning protection for those people responsible for the reliability of power distribution and transmission systems as well as substations.

Great emphasis is placed on assisting attendees with an understanding of the key principles and concepts regarding lightning protection of power systems. The effects of routing, structure type, insulation, shielding, and grounding on transmission lines will be discussed. The course will also provide design information for the methods historically and typically applied by substation designers to reduce direct lightning strokes to equipment and buswork within substations.

What Do Participants Learn?

• Gain familiarity with the management and design of lightning protection for transmission and distribution lines, high voltage power substations, and industrial applications.
• Select an efficient lightning protection design system in order to avoid the main cause of transmission and distribution line outages affecting the reliability of power supply and economic losses.
• Provide cost-effective solutions to reduce lightning overvoltage in power systems.
• Apply the principles of lightning protection to other industries, such as industrial, chemical, renewable energy, nuclear, and oil and gas.
• Understand the key principles and concepts regarding lightning protection and transient overvoltage.

Who Should Attend?

• Municipal, Provincial and Federal Government Engineers and Managers
• Design Engineers
• Design Technicians
• Engineers in Training
• Construction personnel
•  Power Engineers
• Consulting Engineers
• Project Engineers
• Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
• Project Managers
• Plant Managers
• Operating and Maintenance personnel
• Commissioning and Testing Engineers
• Electrical Contractors

What Will the Learning Experience Include?

Phase: 1

Introduce

• Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
• Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
• Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.

• During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
• Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
• Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
• **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.

Phase: 2

Explore & Practice

Phase: 3

Apply

• Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
• To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
• Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
• Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)

• Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
• Participant's Evaluation
• Trainer's Evaluation

Phase: 4

EVALUATE