Professional Certificate of Competency in Electrical Power System Protection
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Foundation degree
Online
Description
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Type
Foundation degree
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Methodology
Online
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Duration
3 Months
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Start date
16/07/2024
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Online campus
Yes
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Delivery of study materials
Yes
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Support service
Yes
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Virtual classes
Yes
In this interactive 3 month LIVE ONLINE course, you will learn how to:
Understand the fundamentals of electrical power protection and applications
Recognize the different fault types
Perform simple fault and design calculations
Understand protection system components
Perform simple relay settings
Choose appropriate protective devices for different equipment
Interpret the protection systems existing in your plant, understand their functions, detect any shortcoming and explain any undesired or uncoordinated relay operation
Make more informed decisions on electrical power system protection
Significantly improve the safety of your site
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About this course
EIT Online Learning courses involve a combination of live, interactive sessions over the Internet with a professional instructor, set readings, and assignments. The courses include simulation software and remote laboratory applications to let you put theory to practice, and provide you with constant support from a dedicated Learning Support Officer.
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The course were enjoyable and they teach up to date technologies and the are really good at it.
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Webinars were great and learning material provided was awesome.
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Course rating
Recommended
Centre rating
M.Dunk
S.Farivar
This centre's achievements
All courses are up to date
The average rating is higher than 3.7
More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months
This centre has featured on Emagister for 6 years
Subjects
- Systems
- Electrical
- Microprocessor
- Protective earthing
- System classification
- Substation Automation
- Communication capability
- Trip circuit supervision
- Protective relay systems
- Neutral earthing
- Differential protection
- Stalling of motors
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Lecturers Engineering Institute
Online
Course programme
Overview
Any power system is prone to 'faults' (also called short-circuits), which occur mostly as a result of insulation failure and sometimes due to external causes. When a fault occurs, the normal functioning of the system gets disturbed. The high current resulting from a fault can stress the electrical conductors and connected equipment thermally and electro-dynamically. Arcs at the fault point can cause dangerous or even fatal burn injuries to operating and maintenance workers in the vicinity. Faults involving one phase and ground give rise to high 'touch' and 'step' voltages posing danger of electrocution to personnel working nearby. It is therefore necessary to detect and clear any fault quickly. The first device used in early electrical systems was the fuse, which acted both as the sensor and the interrupting device. With larger systems, separate devices became necessary to sense and interrupt fault currents. In the beginning these functions were combined in a single assembly; a circuit breaker with in-built releases.
This practice is still prevalent in low voltage systems. In both high systems and low voltage systems of higher capacities, the sensing is done by more sophisticated devices called relays. Relays were initially electro-mechanical devices but static relays and more recently digital relays have become the norm. With more complex systems, it is necessary to detect the point of fault precisely and trip only those sections affected by the fault while the rest of the system can continue to function normally. In the event of the nearest circuit breaker failing to operate, the next breaker in the upstream (feeding) side has to be tripped as a 'back up' measure. Another requirement is to minimise the time for which a fault remains in the circuit; this is necessary to reduce equipment damage and the danger to operating personnel.
These requirements necessitate different forms of relaying apart from the simple current sensing relays. Equipment such as generators, transformers and motors also need special forms of protection characterised by their design and operating principles
This course will explain all of these points in detail and provide you with the skills and knowledge necessary to calculate fault currents, select relays and associated instrument transformers appropriate to each typical system or equipment. You will also learn how to adjust the setting of the relays so that the relays closest to the fault will operate and clear the fault faster than the backup devices.
Course Outline
MODULE 1: Power System Overview
- Electrical distribution system
- Reading single line diagrams
- LV, MV AND HV equipment
- Function and types of electrical switchgear
- Basic circuit breaker design
MODULE 2: Basics of Power System Protection
- Need for protective apparatus
- Basic requirements and components
MODULE 3: Types of Faults and Short Circuit Current Calculations
- The development of simple distribution systems
- Faults-types, effects and calculations
- Equivalent diagrams for reduction of system impedance
- Calculation of short circuit MVA
- Unbalanced faults and earth faults
- Symmetrical components
MODULE 4: System Earthing and Earth Fault Current
- Phase and earth faults
- Comparison of earthing methods
- Protective earthing
- Effect of electric shock on human beings
- Sensitive earth leakage protection
- System classification
MODULE 5: Fuses and Circuit Breakers with Builtin Protection
- Fuse operating characteristics, ratings and selection
- Energy 'let through'
- General rules of thumb
- IS-limiter
- Circuit breakers - types, purpose and arc quenching
- Behavior under fault conditions
- Protective relay-circuit breaker combination
- Circuit breakers with in-built protection
- Conventional and electronic releases
MODULE 6: Instrument Transformers Transformer ratio and errors of ratio and phase angle
- 'Class' of instrument transformers
- Voltage and current transformers
- Applications
MODULE 7: Relays and Auxiliary Power Equipment
- Principle of construction and operation of protective relays
- Special focus on IDMTL relays
- Factors influencing choice of plug setting
- The new era in protection - microprocessor, static and traditional
- Universal microprocessor overcurrent relay
- Technical features of a modern microprocessor relay
- Future of protection for distribution systems
- The era of the IED
- Substation automation
- Communication capability
- Need for reliable auxiliary power for protection systems
- Batteries and battery chargers
- Trip circuit supervision
- Why breakers and contactors fail to trip
- Capacity storage trip units
MODULE 8: Protection Grading and Relay Coordination
- Protection design parameters on MV and LV networks
- Coordination - basis of selectivity
- Current, time and earth fault grading
- Time-current grading
- Grading through IDMT protection relay
- Coordination between secondary and primary circuits of transformers
- Current transformers - coordination
- Importance of settings and coordination curves
MODULE 9: Unit Protection and Applications
- Protective relay systems
- Main, unit and back-up protection
- Methods of obtaining selectivity
- Differential protection
- Machine, transformer and switchgear differential protection
- Feeder pilot-wire protection
- Time taken to clear faults
- Unit protection systems - recommendations and advantages
MODULE 10: Protection of Feeders and Lines
- Over current and earth fault protection
- Application of DMT/IDMT protections for radial feeders
- Directional over current relays in line protection
- DMT and IDMT schemes applied to large systems
- Unit and impedance protection of lines
- Use of carrier signals in line protections
- Transient faults and use of auto reclosing as a means of reducing outage time
- Auto-reclosing in circuits with customer-owned generation
- Auto-reclosing relays for transmission and distribution lines
MODULE 11: Protection of Transformers
- Winding polarity
- Transformer connections and magnetizing characteristics
- In-rush current
- Neutral earthing
- On-load tap changers
- Mismatch of current transformers
- Types of faults
- Differential protection
- Restricted earth fault
- HV overcurrent
- Protection by gas sensing and pressure detection
- Overloading
MODULE 12: Protection of Rotating Machinery
- Motor protection basics
- Transient and steady state temperature rise
- Thermal time constant
- Motor current during start and stall conditions
- Stalling of motors
- Unbalanced supply voltages and rotor failures
- Electrical faults in stator windings earth fault phase-phase faults
- Typical protective settings for motors
- An introduction to generator protection
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Professional Certificate of Competency in Electrical Power System Protection