Cost Effective Strategies for the Maintenance of Electrical Power Systems

Objectives

This training seminar is designed to increase the troubleshooting and fault finding diagnostic skills of engineering teams of a modern power system.

Who Should Attend?

  • Electrical Professionals
  • Electrical Engineers
  • Electrical Supervisors
  • Technicians
  • Professionals responsible for the operation and maintenance techniques 

Outline

MODULE 1: Troubleshooting and Maintenance on Electrical Equipment

Introductions and Safety

  • Pre course assessment
  • Goals and discussion
  • Types of fault and factors affecting fault levels
  • Maintenance of electrical equipment
  • Managing maintenance
  • Safety
  • Balanced and unbalanced faults
  • Safe working practices
  • Safe isolation procedure’s

Maintenance of Electrical Equipment

  • Review of Day 1
  • Electrical systems and components
  • Fault identification
  • Circuit breakers and capacities
  • Earthing introduction
  • Network earthing
  • Earthing systems
  • Earth bonding

Maintenance Engineering

  • Review of Day 2
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Preventative Maintenance
  • Reactive Maintenance and Troubleshooting
  • Condition monitoring
  • Electrical Testing for Troubleshooting
  • Transformer maintenance
  • Generator maintenance

Electrical Equipment: Troubleshooting and Maintenance

  • Review of Day 3
  • Transformer components and trouble shooting
  • Maintenance of electric motors
  • Power electronics and Pulse width modulation invertors
  • AC Machine components and problem solving
  • Synchronous Generators
  • Generator maintenance and trouble shooting
  • Variable speed drives

Cabling

  • Review of Day 4
  • Cable fault locating
  • External influences
  • Compatibility of equipment
  • SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition)
  • Post course assessment

 

MODULE 2: Fault Finding Techniques on an Electrical Power System

DAY 6

Introductions and Safety

  • Pre course assessment
  • Goals and discussion
  • Safety precautions when fault finding
  • Issues around live working
  • Test equipment
  • Personal Safety
  • Fault finding ‘Method A’ for all generators separately exciting with a battery
  • Self excited control system test ‘method B’  fault symptoms and remedies at no load  

DAY 7

Protective Systems of Electrical Equipment

  • Review of Day 6
  • External influences
  • Compatibility of electrical equipment
  • Maintainability of electrical equipment
  • Concepts of protective system protection
  • Power system protection equipment
  • Statutory requirements for safe working practices when fault finding
  • Electrical systems and components
  • Fault identification
  • Protective devices and capacities
  • The purpose of the earth

DAY 8

Maintenance Engineering

  • Review of Day 7
  • The possible reduction/requirement of fault finding by the use of Predictive Maintenance
  • Electrical testing on Transformers for fault finding
  • Electrical testing on Generators for fault finding
  • Electric shock and potential fault energy levels
  • Fault Management

DAY 9

Switchgear

  • Review of Day 8
  • Competence of Engineers carrying out maintenance activities
  • Competence of Engineers carrying out faultfinding activities
  • Overview of switchgear faultfinding and testing
  • Overview of transformer faultfinding and testing
  • Properties and deterioration of insulating oils in an Electric power transformer
  • Thermal imaging
  • HV cable insulation testing and fault finding

DAY 10

Test equipment and protection

  • Review of Day 9
  • LV test equipment
  • HV test equipment
  • Differential protection
  • Required Documentation
  • Post course assessment

Certificates

A Certificate of Completion will be issued to those who attend & successfully complete the programme.

Schedule

  08:30 – 10:15 First Session

 10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:15 Second Session

 12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 – 14:00 Third Session

 14:00 – 15:00 Lunch

Training Methodology:

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours:

  • 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
  • 20% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
  • 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
  • 10% Videos, Software & General Discussions
  • 20% Application
  • Pre and Post Test

Fees

 The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is: