Electrical Safety and Grounding Practices in Electrical Installations Course
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Electrical Safety and Grounding Practices in Electrical Installations Course
Course Overview:
This course covers electrical grounding systems with a focus on safety, efficiency, and compliance with standards such as CSA and NEC.
The attendees will be trained on grounding techniques, system grounding, electrical faults including elbow faults and grounding of generators, transformers, and UPS systems.
Additionally, the course addresses the advanced topics of lightning protection, grounding of electronic equipment, electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radiated interference (RFI) mitigation, and telecommunication grounding.
This course is useful for engineers, technicians, project managers, and safety officers and provides tools for designing, inspecting, and maintaining grounding systems in compliance with the set factors and requirements for their optimal use.
Course Objectives:
After Attending, You Will
- Work more safely and efficiently
- Have a better understanding of Article 250 in the 2002 N.E.C
- Be more aware of the benefits of good grounding systems
- Be better prepared to design your next grounding system
Who Should Attend?
This electrical grounding seminar training is a must for electrical engineers, design engineers, electrical engineering managers, project managers, power quality specialists, maintenance managers, consultants, and technologists responsible for the design, construction, installation, inspection, operation, or maintenance of electrical systems, designers, contractors, and electrical technicians, inspectors, safety personnel and other employees responsible for the operation and maintenance of electrical grounding systems in a commercial, industrial, institutional or utility setting.
Course Outlines:
ELECTRICAL GROUNDING – OVERVIEW
- Grounding- Definitions
- Grounding methods
- System Grounding
- Single Point Grounding
- Solid Grounding
- Impedance Grounding
- Reactance Grounding
- Resistance Grounding
- Isolated Grounding
- Ground Faults
- Why Ground Circuits and Systems
- Grounding Systems
Standards and Codes
- Classification of Various Grounding Standards. Codes and Rules
- Canadian Standards Association:
- CSA Grounding and Bonding (C22.1 – 98, Section 10)
- CSA Protection and Control (C22.1 – 98, Section 14)
- CSA Installation of Electrical Equipment (C22.1 – 98, Section 26)
- CSA Electrical Communication Equipment (C22.1 – 98, Section 60)
- Canadian Electrical Code:
- Bonding and Grounding of Electrical Equipment (C22.2 No. 0.4 – M1982 R1993)
- Grounding and Bonding Equipment (C22.2 No. 41 – M1987 R1993)
- (C22.2 No. 0.4 – M1982 R1993)
- NEC – National Electrical Code
- Electrical Grounding Electrode System
- Grounding Theory
- Parameters, Measurements, and Calculations
- Grounding Electrodes: Construction And Installation
- Ground Resistance and Resistivity
- Grounding Electrode Conductor
- Electrical Grounding and Corrosion
- Materials-Splicing
- Installation and Protection
- Sizing the grounding Electrode Conductor
- Circuit grounding
- Grounded Conductor
- Direct Current Systems
- Alternating-Current System
- Equipment Grounding
- Major Requirements: Leakage Current, Proper Sizing
- Generators
- Substations
- Transformers
- UPS systems: Online, Standby, Line-Interactive, Alternative
- Installation
- Sizing the equipment grounding
- Identification of the Equipment grounding Conductor
- Electric Shock
- Grounding and Electric Shock
- Separately Derived Systems
- Main Bonding Jumper
- Portable generators
- Vehicle Mounted Generators
- Electrical Grounding two or more Buildings
- Grounded and Ungrounded Systems
- Grounding the Second Building
- Lightning Protection- Electrical Grounding
- Lightning- Characteristics
- Protection Systems
- Rolling Sphere Concept
- Lightning Protection System Specifications
- Electronic Equipment Grounding
- Introduction and Definitions
- Computer and Electronic Equipment Grounding
- Telecommunication Rooms and Closets
- Data Processing Equipment Grounding
- Electronic Security Equipment Grounding
- Telecommunication Site Grounding
- Grounding Subsystems
- Exterior Ground Ring
- Interior Ground ring- Halo Ground
- Low Frequency Networks
- High frequency Networks
- Computer Room Grounding
- System Reference Zero
- Detection of a faulty Neutral-Ground System
- Sizing Wiring to meet Computer Industry Standards
- Grounding line Treatment Devices
- Transient Overvoltage Protector Grounding
- Gas Tubes
- Metal Oxide Varistors
- Silicon Avalanche Diodes
- Instrumentation and Control
- EMI (Electromagnetic Interference)
- Inductive, Capacitive, and Radiation Coupling
- RFI (Radio frequency Interference)
- Electrostatic Discharge
- Shields grounding
- Coaxial Cables
- Telephone Lines
- Data lines grounding - RS232
- EMI on Electronic Circuits
- Susceptibility- Immunity
- Cable Shielding and Grounding
- Losses by Absorption and reflection
- Grounding Low and High frequency Shielding
- Grounding High frequency Shielding
- Coaxial Cables
- Superficial Resistivity
- Resonance and Skin Effect