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:
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