Fault Finding Techniques On An Electrical Power System Course

Course Overview:

The course offers in-depth understanding of troubleshooting and maintenance methodologies applicable to modern electrical systems with focus on faults’ location, monitoring and preventive measures.

The students will be familiarized with transformer design and usage, earthing systems, cabling systems and methods of faults’ location. These include safe practices, electrical instrumentation, maintenance of electrical machines, such as motors, generators and principles of protective apparatus. 

The course is structured for electrical engineers, supervisors, technicians, and maintenance personnel and provides them with hands-on exercises necessary to improve operational dependability, minimize the outages and maintenance efforts of electrical equipment.

Course Objectives:

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

This Electrical Engineering training course on Troubleshooting & Maintenance of Electrical Equipment is designed to increase the awareness of the required diagnostic skills of engineers and maintenance teams on Modern Power systems. The training course will revolve around maintenance, troubleshooting, and fault finding techniques used in today's modern systems.

At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

• Elaborate on a variety of Electrical Faults
• Discuss Electrical Fault Finding Procedures
• Examine Maintenance and Condition Monitoring
• Describe the Function of a Transformer
• Describe the Need for an Efficient Earthing System
• Interpret Cabling Systems and Fault-finding Techniques

Who Should Attend?

This training program is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Electrical Professionals
• Electrical Engineers
• Electrical Supervisors
• Technicians
• Professionals responsible for the operation, maintenance, and fault finding techniques
• Personnel who have a work scope which includes limited Electrical maintenance

Course Outlines:

Introduction and safety                                                   

• 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 and Isolation Procedures

Maintenance of Electrical Equipment

• Safe Working Practices and Isolation Procedure's
• Predictive Maintenance
• Preventative Maintenance
• Reactive Maintenance and Troubleshooting
• Condition Monitoring

Maintenance Engineering

• Electrical Testing for Troubleshooting
• Transformer Maintenance
• Generator Maintenance
• Transformer Components and Troubleshooting
• Maintenance of Electric Motors
• Power Electronics and Pulse Width Modulation Invertors
• AC Machine Components and Problem Solving

Troubleshooting, Maintenance, and Cable Faults

• Synchronous Generators
• Generator Maintenance and Troubleshooting
• Variable Speed Drives and Harmonics
• Cable Fault Locating
• External Influences

Cabling and Maintainability

• Compatibility of Equipment
• SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
• Compatibility of Electrical Equipment
• Maintainability of Electrical Equipment
• Concepts of Protective System Protection