Course Description
Current practice is reviewed to establish a sound understanding of the underlying principles of power system transmission, distribution, operation & control with an emphasis on the developments taking place, The course aims to make candidates aware of improvements that technological advances make possible and to consider implementing these on their system.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Understand how FACTS devices can provide real-time support to improve network operation
- Understand how to improve the quality of the supply, dips, swells and harmonics sources
- Be familiar with diagnostic tools that lead to improved reliability including PD measurement
- Deal with methods to handle higher fault levels and power demand and cable thermal rating
- Deal with the question of alternative forms of generation and CO2 emissions
Who Should Attend?
- Maintenance supervisors
- Novice engineers
- Plant engineers
- Electricians
- Plant mechanics
- Service technicians
- Contractors
- Energy auditors
- Layout professionals
- General audience
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
Section One: Introduction
- Overview of a typical system covering generation, transmission, and distribution
- Determination of flow of real (P) and reactive power (Q)
- Determination and control of fault level
- Control of reactive power & voltage
- Control of active power & system frequency
- The requirements for reactive compensation – voltage profiles
- Quality of supply
Section Two: Current Operational Problems
- Coping with rising demand for power – transmission, and distribution
- The costs associated with increasing fault level
- Catering for increasing load on the existing system – ratings of plant
- Monitoring of plant condition – e.g. temperature
- A review of analytical methods & demonstration of software for optimizing system operation
- Increasing problems of heavily loaded systems – stability, voltage dips
- Introduction to System Operation
- Active Power and Frequency Control – automated
- Voltage Control and Reactive Power Requirements – automated
- Generation, including combined cycle and small embedded generators
- Transmission voltage levels – line and cable design, power loading and de-rating for temperature effects
Section Three: Emerging Technologies
- Energy and the Environment – solar power, geothermal power, etc. CO2 and its impact on the world
- ‘Green’ generation? Is it possible on a large scale or are there stability problems?
- Demand Side Management – remote load control – minimizing demand – optimizing transmission – coping with dips and swells
- Optical Current Transducers for Protection – optical current sensors eliminate CT saturation
- High Voltage Applications – Surge protection, current limiters network switching, etc
- Nonlinear loads – harmonics at PCC – filtering – G5/4 requirements
Section Four: Advances in control and monitoring
- Power Electronics Applied to Power Systems
- Flexibility in AC Systems – static VAr Compensation – series controlled capacitors
- Changing maintenance schedules, remote surveillance of plant and the introduction of unmanned substations
- Data logging
- Making the system work harder
- HC-DC Links for stability improvement
- Power Dynamics Management – the low-frequency oscillation
- Advanced protection and Control Techniques
- Is – Fault Current Limiter – how to apply
- GIS diagnostics – partial discharge techniques
- Optical cable temperature monitoring
- SCADA and artificial intelligence systems for fault diagnostics
Section Five: System protection
- Digital and Micro Processor Protection
- Electrical Insulation – Air and SF6 – the problems
- Condition Monitoring of Plant
- Appendix – Characteristics of a Power Network – Review for the Future