Advanced Power Distribution Engineering for Utilities

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Advanced Power Distribution Engineering for Utilities Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants will have good knowledge of the following areas:
- Modern Power Distribution Systems
- Overhead Lines
- Underground Distribution
- Distribution Transformers
- Distribution Substations
- Voltage Regulation
- Capacitor Application
- Faults
- Short Circuit Protection
- Reliability
- Voltage Sags and Monetary Interruptions
- Power Quality
- Lightning Protection
- Grounding & Safety
- Distributed Generators
Who Should Attend?
This course is suitable for electrical power managers, engineers, superintendents, supervisors, foremen, technicians, and those who are involved in the design, engineering, operation, maintenance, and control of the electric power system or anyone interested in obtaining a working knowledge of the modern power distribution systems for utilities
Course Outlines:
Distribution Power Transformers Types, Characteristics, Operations and Protection
- Types and design of power transformers
- Oil-immersed transformers
- Major components of a power transformer
- Vector groups for transformers
- Cooling systems for transformers
- Fault level and impedance percentage of a transformer
Construction and Characteristics Switches and Circuit Breakers
- Construction and operation of load break switch, earth switches, and isolators
- Construction and operation of molded case circuit breaker
- Construction and operations of air circuit breaker
- The electronic trip of an air circuit breaker
- The construction and operation of vacuum circuit breaker
- Characteristics of vacuum circuit breaker
SF6 and High Voltage Circuit Breakers
- SF6 arc quenching characteristics
- SF6 circuit breaker operations and characteristics
- Live tank high voltage circuit breaker
- Dead tank high voltage circuit breaker
- Safety of SF6 circuit breakers
- New alternative grid green gas
Auxiliary Power by Means of Batteries and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
- Critical loads and distribution equipment categories
- Types of online and offline UPS design
- Components functionalities of a UPS
- Double conversion UPS
- Redundancy and parallel operation of UPS
- UPS operational modes
Maintenance and Safety of Power Distribution Equipment
- Functionalities of numerical relays
- Maintenance strategies
- Partial discharge and its effects
- Merits of thermography
- Power quality measurement instruments
- Wrap up session and Q&A session