Transmission Planning and Analysis Training
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Transmission Planning and Analysis Training Course
Introduction:
“A plan is nothing,” declared Winston Churchill. Everything depends on your planning. A strategy that appears to be for developing power systems might not be very useful at all if the presumptions and requirements are not met. In the age of open access, deregulation, power markets, merchant power plants, and accessible transfer capacity, this is even more relevant. Nonetheless, the process of planning itself offers a way to swiftly create a new plan from the remnants of the old one. As Churchill suggested, understanding the procedure is crucial.
Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course the participant will be able to:
- Understanding the main concepts of power system planning.
- Understanding of modern planning and design methodologies in an electrical power system
- How power systems are modeled and analyzed for planning and operation purposes
- How to improve the quality of supply. To know how to design, and calculate, of new power plants.
- Understanding of the modern methods for planning capacity needs of power delivery (Transmission and Distribution).
- To learn the load behavior and load growth characteristics.
- To learn how to forecast energy, maximum demand, and the number of consumers.
- To learn how to load forecasting in the planning of power systems.
Who Should Attend?
The course will be useful for managers, engineers/highly trained technicians and operators, and senior technical personnel from generation, operation, control, transmission operation departments who are involved in the planning, operation, and analysis of a power system. Such electrical engineers could be working in power utilities, oil and gas production, and those involved in consultancy. Participants need no specific requirements, other than a good understanding of electricity and some relevant experience in power engineering.
Course Outlines:
- Electrical power system planning - overview
- Introduction
- Power system planning structure, Load forecasting, Generation planning, Transmission system planning, Substation expansion, Substation site selection, Distribution system planning, Environmental planning, Financial planning
- Generation of power and generating plants
- Advantages of electrical energy, Sources of energy
- Generation of electrical power, Conventional power plants
- Steam power plants, Hydroelectric (hydel) plants
- Load characteristics and forecasting
- Energy requirements, Variable load on the power station
- Load variations, Definitions, terms and factors
- Feeder load, Load curves, Selection of generating units
- Baseload and peak load on the power station, Method of meeting the load, Load types, Load forecasting, Do it yourself
- Economics of power generation
- Economics of power generation, Choice in the type of generation
- The capital cost of plants Cost of electrical energy, Methods of depreciation calculation, Effect of load factor on unit energy cost.
- Improvement of power factor
- Power factor, Reactive component of current, Disadvantages of low p.F. The basic principle of p.F. Improvement, Methods of improving p.F. Comparison of synchronous capacitors, and static capacitors. Location of p.F. Correction equipment, Calculation of the value of the capacitor in farads, Calculations of capacitance in Hvar. Economics of p.P. Improvement, Numerical problems.
- Supply systems
- Generation, transmission and distribution, Important points
- Star delta connections, Comparison between a.C. And d.C.
- Systems of transmission and distribution, Comparison between overhead and underground systems of transmission and distribution, High voltage (h.V.) D.C. Transmission, Advantages of h.V.D.C. Transmission.
- Transmission & distribution systems
- Advantages & limitations of transmission at high voltage
- Economical transmission voltage, Economical size of the conductor - kelvin’s law, Various transmission systems
- The distribution system, Classification of distribution systems
- Design considerations in the distribution system, Overhead versus underground system, D.C. Distribution, Ring distributor, Ac distribution
- Substations and switchgear
- Classification of sub-stations (ss), Comparison between indoor and outdoor sub-stations, Equipment of a sub-station
- Pole-mounted sub-station, Underground sub-station
- Terminal and through sub-stations, key diagram of 66/11 kV substation, Switchgears, Components of a switchgear
- Bus-bar arrangements,
- Tariff and demand-side management
- Types of the tariff, Scope of demand-side management
- Applications of load control