Certificate Earthing of Utility and Industrial Distribution Systems
Short course
Online
*Indicative price
Original amount in INR:
₹ 12,700
Description
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Type
Short course
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Level
Beginner
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Methodology
Online
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Duration
3 Months
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Start date
Different dates available
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Online campus
Yes
This Earthing of Utility and Industrial Distribution Systems course offered by IIME focuses on the building blocks of grounding of electrical systems. Unnecessary theory is reduced to allow you to focus on best practices over the duration of the course.
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Subjects
- Approach
- Signal processing
- Design
- Electrical
- Systems
- Calculating the ground fault current
- Grounding practices
- Noise coupling into signal circuits
Teachers and trainers (1)
SNEHA SHARMA
EDUCATIONAL COUNSELLER
Course programme
Video 1: Overview:
- Objectives of grounding and bonding
- Fault in an underground system
- Effect of neutral system grounding
- Ground fault current flow
- Ground electrodes
- Grounding for charge/surge control
- Dissipation of static charges
- Lightning strikes
- Sources of voltage surge
- Typical ground loops
Video 2: Static electricity and protection:
- What is static electricity and how is it generated?
- Examples of static charge build up and its dangers
- Energy of spark due to static electricity
- Ways of controlling static build up
- Risk assessment and preventive measures
Video 3: Grounding for lightning protection of buildings and structures:
- The physics of lightning
- Lightning incidence in different land masses
- Lightning strike probability
- Lightning protection
- Planning for protection and decision factors
- Improved approach to lightning protection and non-conventional systems
- Effect of lightning strikes on electrical installations
Video 4: Power supply system grounding:
- Types of system grounding
- Ungrounded systems
- Solidly grounded systems
- Impedance grounding using neutral reactor
- Resonant grounding using neutral reactor
- Impedance grounding through neutral resistance
- Classification of supply systems based on grounding
- Point of grounding
- Other challenges
Video 5: Protective grounding:
- Electric shock, its cause and effects
- Direct and indirect contact
- Touch and step potential
- Role of protective grounding in minimising the shock hazards
- Equipotential bonding
- Protective grounding conductors and installation
- Ground fault protection
- System classification based on system/protective grounding
Video 6: Surges and surge protection:
- Surges, their causes and mitigation
- The ways by which surges couple into electrical circuits
- Bonding of grounding systems
- Basic principle of surge protection and commonly used surge protection devices
- Graded surge protection
- Selecting appropriate surge protective devices and their positioning in a system
Video 7: Ground electrode systems:
- Soil resistance and factors affecting soil resistivity
- Measurement of soil resistivity
- Resistance of ground electrode and distribution of resistance in surrounding soil layers
- Electrode current capacity
- Ground electrode configurations
- Parallel electrodes
- Ground electrode resistance measurement
- Chemical electrodes
- Concrete encased electrodes and splicing methods
- Corrosion of buried electrodes
- Grounding system maintenance
Video 8: Electrical noise and mitigation:
- Definition of electrical noise
- How are sensitive circuits affected?
- Noise categories
- Noise from power electrical equipment
- Noise coupling into signal circuits
- Noise mitigation measures
- Role of proper grounding in reducing noise
- Noise control by proper grounding of UPS derived supplies
Video 9: Substation grounding design:
- Grounding practices
- Basic design approach
- Calculating the ground fault current
- Ground potential rise in HV systems
- Grounding design in LV and MV substations/installations
- Grounding grid design for HV/EHV substations - a step-by-step approach
- Introduction to two-layer soil model
- Transferred potential and ways of avoiding
- Points needing special attention in substation grounding design and for GIS equipment
- Design of substations containing converter equipment feeding to HVDC transmission systems
- Ensuring effective substation grounding - important aspects
Practical: DIY lab experiments
- Links to Basic Software Simulations
- A range of exercises with a quiz and problems with answers
Certificate Earthing of Utility and Industrial Distribution Systems
*Indicative price
Original amount in INR:
₹ 12,700