Power and Power Stations: Design, installation, and Maintenance Course

Course Overview:

This course is broad-based and offers details on the design, operation, and control of graduate electric power systems.

Participants will understand the different components of a power system including generation, transmission, and distribution as well as undertake advanced topics such as fault analysis, system protection, dynamics, stability, and economic dispatch. 

Other topics included in the program are substation grounding, lightning protection, and applications in power electronics. 

This course is aimed at power engineers, technicians, and managers and it seeks to provide the participants with the understanding and ability to tackle the challenges that modern electric power systems face now and to improve their reliability and efficiency.

Course Objectives:

As a matter of fact, this course covers a wide range of topics related to the design, operation, and control of power systems that are usually treated separately. Various issues are treated in depth with analytical rigor and practical insight. The subject matter is presented in a very interesting and unique perspective. It combines, in a structured way, control theory, characteristics, and modeling of individual elements and analysis of different aspects of modern electric power systems.

Who Should Attend?

This course is suitable for electrical power managers, engineers, superintendents, supervisors, foremen, technicians, and those who are involved in the design, engineering, operation, maintenance, and control of the electric power system or anyone interested in obtaining a working knowledge of the modern electric power system.

Course Outlines:

• Have an overview of the modern power system components and be able to explain their functions
• Know the concept of electric power generation including synchronous machinery, thermal generating plants and distributed utilities
• Learn the theory & principles of transformers and be able to identify its various types as well as their features & functions
• Understand transmission system structure, components & accessories and be able to determine sag & tension of conductor
• Identify the different types of substations and be able to gain knowledge on substation grounding, lightning & substation fire protection Know the distribution system modeling & analysis and learn power system operation & control
• Describe electric power utilization including the metering of electric power & energy and load characterization & load modeling
• Employ the process of power system analysis & simulation and be able to identify fault analysis in power systems
• Develop in-depth understanding on the principles of power system protection & power system transients including the protection of synchronous generators, digital relaying, lightning strokes, over voltages, switching surges & insulation coordination
• Learn power system dynamics & stability and be able to recognize the various stability methods used in modern power system
• Become familiar with power system planning & reliability applied in power systems
• Learn power electronics & power quality and be able to recognize their practical use in modern electric power system
• Understand economic dispatch of thermal units including its methods of solution
• Identify the factors affecting power system security and be able to determine the variables to be considered in the environmental controls of electric power systems