Overhead Transmission Lines Mechanical Design and Performance
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Overhead Transmission Lines Mechanical Design and Performance Course
Introduction:
Investigating and analyzing transmission lines is of paramount importance, and it is equally crucial to thoroughly examine the excitation system. A comprehensive understanding of these topics is necessary to effectively manage the selection, design, and operation of transmission lines while considering performance-related factors.
This training course is specifically designed for engineers and technicians who currently use or plan to use computer software such as PLS-CADD and PLS-TOWER. These software programs are essential for designing, optimizing, assessing, upgrading, and constructing overhead transmission lines. Widely recognized as state-of-the-art, these software tools are utilized by over 500 utilities and companies in approximately 50 countries. By participating in this course, individuals will gain the necessary expertise to leverage the full potential of these software programs in their professional endeavors.
Course Objectives:
To help the participants to understand the science of the transmission lines and to understand the material and the properties of the system and the network in general.
Who Should Attend?
Electrical engineers, supervisors, and qualified technicians.
Course Outlines:
- Transmission line concept
- Components of overhead transmission lines
- Structure of an electric power system
- Power system designs
- Low voltage overhead lines
- Medium voltage overhead lines
- Example for TL
- Transmission line equivalent circuits and relevant equations
- Electric and Magnetic Fields
- Types of circuit breakers used in power station
- The protection philosophy used to protect the power station system
- Types of insulators and string efficiency
- Overhead TL
- Transmission line types
- Faults type and how to discover and solve
- What is the power factor
- Types of compensations
- New technology in finding faults associated with the transmission lines
- Power Loss
- How to calculate the power losses
- How to improve the power factor
- Why we are using high voltage in transmission line instead
- of high current
- DC and AC distribution
- Lockout and Tag out the procedure during the maintenance
- Solving of TL problems
- Earthing system
- Thunder prevention
- Distribution plant
- Condenser- SECTIONLIZER – RECLOSER
- Mechanical design of overhead TL
- Voltage drop
- Reducing the power consumption
- What is the newest tech. in power transmission system