Electrical Power Distribution System Performance and Methods of Improvement Course
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Electrical Power Distribution System Performance and Methods of Improvement Course
Introduction:
Electrical Power Transmission Systems engineering along with distribution network analysis, planning, and design, plays a critical role in the technical management, development, and acquisition of complex power and energy technology systems. They are the professionals responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing group efforts that translate operational need into a technology solution, and whose tools and skills determine whether a system will meet cost, schedule, and performance goals.
Course Objectives:
This course is intended to introduce attendees to systems engineering and provide a good understanding of how it can be applied to planning, designing, implementing, operating, and optimizing power and energy projects. The course leads the attendees step by step through the project life cycle and describes the systems engineering approach at each step using a real project. It focuses on how to begin implementing the systems engineering approach on power and energy projects and incorporate it more broadly into organization's business processes and practices.
Who Should Attend?
This special course is geared for systems engineers, functional engineers, power & energy specialists, and program managers interested in learning more about how to apply powerful methods to create solutions for complex systems.
Course Outlines:
System Fundamentals
Fundamentals of Power and Energy Systems
- Introduction to Energy Generation
- Different methods of generating electricity
- Turbine driven electrochemical generators
- Fuel cells
- Photovoltaics
- Thermoelectric devices
- Combustion of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil)
- Nuclear fission and fusion
- Renewable resources (solar, wind, hydro, tidal, and geothermal sources)
- Sustainability and energy efficiency
Transmission and Distribution and Smart Grid
- Power and Energy and the Environment
- Power and Energy Systems Project Management
- Power and Energy Generation
- Transmission and Distribution / Smart Grid
- Principles and Techniques of Wind Energy and Solar Cells
- Power Electronics
- Smart Grids Communications
- Modern power transmission and distribution systems
- Transformer technology
- Transmission grids
- Load management
- Distribution optimization
- Power supply reliability
- Infrastructure systems
- Security and deregulation
- SCADA systems
Energy and the Environment
- The direct and indirect impact of energy generation and transmission technologies on the environment
- Global climate change
- Clean energy technologies
- Energy conservation
- Air pollution
- Water resources
- Nuclear waste issues
Core Systems Engineering Principals
Introduction to Systems Engineering
- Why Use Systems Engineering?
- Definition of System and Systems Engineering
- Value of Systems Engineering
- What is Systems Engineering?
- Key-Systems Engineering Principles
- The V Systems Engineering Model
Power and Energy Systems Engineering
- Systems Engineering applied to power and energy
- Development and implementation of modern complex power and energy systems
- Developing new power and energy technologies and systems
- Need to plan, coordinate, and oversee interdisciplinary team efforts
- Translating operational needs into technology solutions
- Applying tools and skills determine whether a system will meet cost, schedule, and performance goal
- Systems engineering methods with potential applications to power and energy systems
- Integrated System Analysis of Power and Energy Projects
- Power and Energy Generation Technology Cost Modeling
- An example of Systems Engineering
- Application of Systems Engineering to Power and Energy Design
- Integral Power and Energy System Design
Power and Energy Systems Engineering Technical
- System Conceptual Design
- Using the Architecture
- Feasibility Study/Concept Exploration
- Project Management and Systems Engineering Master Plan
- Concept of Operations (ConOps)
- System Requirements
- System Design
- Systems Architecting
- Software/Hardware Development and Testing
- Integration and Verification
- Initial Deployment
- System Validation
- Operations and Maintenance
- Retirement/Replacement
- System of Systems (SoS) Engineering
- Power and Energy Systems Project Management
- Managing the electric power grid
- Broad-spectrum of empirical, theoretical, and policy issues
- Generation facilities and equipment
Systems Engineering Processes Applied to Power and Energy Power and Energy Systems Engineering Approaches
- Needs and Objectives
- Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
- Definition of the Problem
- Measures of Effectiveness/Measures of Performance
- Needs and Objectives Analysis
- Objectives (Statement of Objectives, Objectives Tree)
Needs Analysis
- Business/mission needs
- Statement of Objectives
- Defining the Operational Requirements
- Measures of Effectiveness and Performance
- Independent operational scenarios
- Functional Definition of the System
- Physical Definition of the System
- Needs Validation
Concept Definition
- Describing System Requirements
- Analyzing the Operational Requirements
- Deriving and Validating System Performance Requirements
- Concept exploration
- Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
- Prototyping
- Analysis of Alternatives
- Trade Studies
- Risk Analysis
- Technology Readiness Assessments
Power and Energy System Analysis
- Requirements analysis
- Functional analysis and design
- Allocation of Requirements to Functions
- Functional Architecture (Functional Flow and Block Diagrams)
- Physical analysis and design
- Physical Architecture (Physical Block Diagram)
- The Context of the System in its Environment
- Engineering Complex Systems in Government Environments
- Understanding the System Environment
- Defining the Problem and Purpose of the System
- System Boundaries (System Context Diagram)
- System Life Cycle (from Concept to Operations)
- The SE Method (Requirements, Functional, Physical, Validation)
- Allocation of Requirements
- Concept selection and validation
- System Functional Specification
- Functional Decomposition (Functional Analysis and Allocation)
- Requirements Analysis
- Physical Definition (Synthesis or Physical Analysis and Allocation)
- The Design Review
- The Defined Concept
- Test Developmental and Operational Assessments
Requirements Engineering
- Characteristics of Requirements
- Writing requirements
- Analyzing Requirements
- Configuration Management of Requirements
- QA of Requirements
- Verification and Validation (V&V) of Requirements
- Traceability of Requirements
- Deriving test requirements
- Requirements Traceability Matrix
- System and Subsystem Requirements
- System Functional Requirements
- System Operational Requirements
- System Performance Requirements
- System Specifications
System Design, Development, and Integration
- Prototype Development
- Sub-system and component design
- Interface Design
- Synthesis of the design
- Integration and interoperability challenges
- Design Validation
- System and Acquisition Life Cycle
- Contractor design evaluation
Integrating, Testing, and Evaluating the System
- Test and evaluation plans and procedures
- The Test Construct
- Deriving test objectives and requirements
- Test methods (demonstration, analysis, inspection, and test)
- Operational Capability Assessment
- Test maturity
Power and Energy Systems Analysis, Design and Development
- Conceptual Design
- Interface Design (Physical Interfaces, User Interfaces)
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