Course Objectives:

• Be familiar with generation system.
• Be familiar with physical phenomenon of lightning.
• Be familiar with switch gear.
• Be familiar with motor control centre.
• Be familiar with ancillary equipment.
• Understand plant auxiliary power supply system.
• Understand emergency power supply system
• Understand plant blackout, start power supply system, system restoration
• Be familiar with electrical systems details.

Course Outline:

• Introduction:

• General Explanation of Electrical System.
• Types of over-voltage in power systems.
• Reactive power regulating devices.
• Overexcited and under excited AC Machine.
• Power Quality State Estimation.

• Generation System:

• System Requirements.
• Power Plant Outages and Faults.
• Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Systems.
• Power Transformer.
• Shunt Elements.
• Series Elements.
• On load tap changing transformers.
• Over voltages during light loads or no loads.

• Physical phenomenon of lightning:

• Interaction between lightning and power systems
• Lightning performance of transmission lines.
• Lightning flash parameters.
• Lightning flashes to shield wires and towers.
• Flash to tall structures.
• Circuit elements involved in computation of flashover performance
• The methods of voltage-control in power systems.
• Synchronous condenser and static shunt compensator.

•  Switch Gear:

• Circuit Breakers
•  Switchboard and Panel board
• Fuses, Disconnecting Links… etc.

• Motor Control Center.

• Capacitance switching

• Ancillary Equipment:
• Plant Auxiliary Power Supply System:

• C.T. & P.T.s
• Series Capacitors & Shunt Capacitors

•  Emergency Power Supply System
•  Plant Blackout, Start Power Supply System, System Restoration
• Electrical Systems Details:

• 380 KV System
• 13.8 KV System
• 4.16 KV System
•  480.0 V System
•  Electrical Control System

Who Can Benefit?

• All engineers and technicians involved in the power sectors and power station operation, planning, and maintenance, and also in the factories, and enterprises, especially in power station electrical systems