• Sharm El Sheikh

    Sharm El Sheikh

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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