Course Description
This Power System Protection and Reliability training course offers a thorough understanding of the core principles behind Digital Power System Relaying and Protection Applications. Participants will gain practical skills in testing, operating, and adjusting protective relays. The course also covers key concepts related to the reliability and availability of power system networks, emphasizing proactive strategies to ensure safe and efficient operation.
This training course will feature:
Define all protection devices required for power system
Define all standards regarding protection devices and its setting
Applying function test for protection devices and PD analysis
Faults types and fault study
Protection relay according to ANSI code
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand power protection devices
- Understand faults system and types
- Power system reliability and PD analysis
- Load types and network availability
- Learn Fundamental Principles of Power System Protection
How the course is delivered
This training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes lecture with active delegate participation including discussions and workshops. Real life problems and case studies will be worked out and discussed. Through an active participation in the group work and class discussions, the delegates will be a lot of opportunity to increase their experience and knowledge of techniques available for equipment troubleshooting.
Designed for
This training course will benefit all electrical, technical & instrumentation engineers. It will help them understand more the principles of power system protection and reliability.
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Electrical power system engineers
- Electrical technician
- All engineers and tech work in substations, power system and electrical companies (generation, transmission, dist.)
- For managers to understand the effect of power factor correction with cost
- Anyone who requires an understanding of the principles of protective relaying such as recent graduates or those who are new to the industry. Also beneficial as an update on the latest relaying technology
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
- MODULE II
- Power System Protection
- Types and characteristics or overcurrent protection
- Fuse types, operation, and characteristics
- Interpretation of the time current curves
- Relationship between electronic trip units and L, S, I, G.
- TCC and selective coordination studies
- The molded case and the air circuit breakers electronic units
- Construction and roles of current transformer
- Potential or voltage transformers for electrical protection circuits
- The non-conventional instrument transformer (NCIT) characteristics
- Protection relay functionalities and significance
- Digital numerical relay applications
- Numerical relays coordination studies and characteristics
- Generator faults and protection
- Numerical relays dedicated to generator
- Importance of power transformer protection
- Low voltage and high voltage motor protection design
- Busbar protection significance
- Distance protection for overhead lines
- The smart grids with IEDs
- IoT and electrical power protection system
- The digital grid and line protection
- IEC 61850 and the digital substation
- AI component of the interactive intelligent relays
- Eco friendly high voltage circuit breakers
- Common type of ground faults
- Severe overcurrent faults
- Arc flash hazards analysis
- Arc fault mitigation related to IEEE 1584 and NFPA 70E
- Wrap up session
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.
