Course Description
Power Quality and Reliability Training Course provides essential knowledge for ensuring stable, efficient, and customer-compliant electrical power systems. Power quality directly affects equipment performance, system reliability, and operational costs, making it a critical factor in modern electrical networks. Poor power quality can lead to voltage disturbances, increased downtime, and reduced equipment lifespan, impacting both industrial and commercial operations.
This Power Quality and Reliability Training Course covers key concepts such as voltage sags, interruptions, harmonics, transient overvoltages, and reliability indices. Participants will understand how these issues arise and how they affect system performance and customer satisfaction.
The training course also focuses on practical mitigation techniques, including harmonic filtering, voltage regulation, and protective device selection. By combining theory with real-world applications, participants will gain the skills needed to improve system reliability, reduce losses, and ensure consistent power quality that meets industry and customer expectations.
What you will achieve
Power Quality and Reliability Course objectives focus on developing a strong understanding of power system behavior, disturbances, and reliability performance. Participants will learn how to identify issues and apply corrective measures to maintain stable electrical systems.
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand key power quality and reliability concepts and terminology
- Assess the impact of voltage sags, interruptions, and disturbances on equipment
- Analyze the effects of fault clearing on system stability
- Calculate and interpret standard reliability indices
- Identify sources of transient overvoltages and select appropriate arresters
- Understand harmonic generation and apply mitigation techniques
- Analyze AC power systems and voltage regulation behavior
How the course is delivered
Power Quality and Reliability Course uses a practical and interactive learning approach to ensure participants clearly understand complex power system behaviors and solutions. The training course combines theoretical explanations with real-world problem-solving techniques.
Participants will engage in workshops focused on solving practical power quality problems using calculations and case scenarios. Case studies help demonstrate real system disturbances and their mitigation strategies.
Simulations and visual tools are used to illustrate abstract concepts such as voltage sags, harmonics, and transient events. Group discussions reinforce understanding of reliability indices, insulation coordination, and voltage regulation. This structured approach ensures participants gain practical skills to diagnose issues, improve power quality, and enhance overall system reliability.
Designed for
Power Quality and Reliability Training Course is designed for professionals involved in power system operation, maintenance, and performance analysis. It supports individuals responsible for improving system reliability and resolving power quality issues.
This training course will benefit:
- Engineers and technicians new to the power industry
- Intermediate-level professionals seeking to improve system reliability
- Specialists involved in power quality assessment and monitoring
- Facility engineers and consultants addressing electrical disturbances
- Engineers responsible for system performance and reliability improvement
Daily programme
- Power quality definition and basics
- Importance of good and reliable power quality
- Quantifying power quality
- ITI curve
- Causes of voltage sags
- Causes of interruptions
- Motor starting
- Switching and traveling waves
- Capacitor switching
- Lightning
- Lightning shielding and grounding
- Ferroresonance
- IEEE-defined reliability indices
- Interpreting reliability indices
- Fault clearing
- Reclosing strategies
- Fuse saving philosophy
- Fuse blowing philosophy
- Basic impulse level
- Insulation systems
- Insulation testing
- Arrester selection and application
- Load tap changers and voltage regulators
- Effects of steady-state voltage on system operation
- Fundamentals of harmonics
- Causes and effects of harmonics
- AC power and power factor
- Mitigating harmonic effects
- K-factor transformers
- Harmonic filters
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
