Introduction:
What subjects are the main focus of the curriculum “Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Management”? Transmission and distribution systems, maintenance, overhead line distribution, overhead line transmission, and subterranean line maintenance are just a few of the topics covered in this course.
This course will give you the awareness of how efficient power transmission and distribution systems achieve their goals as well as how individual components are connected and maintained, providing crucial training for those involved in the transmission and distribution of electric power.
Course Objectives
Upon completing this Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Management course successfully, participants will be able to:
- Focus on the interfaces between the people, processes, and products
- Equips teams with the knowledge necessary to realize successful solutions
- Gather knowledge to realize project solutions and leverage Project Management and Systems Engineering roles and responsibilities
- How to analyze and interpret the response of the power system to different scenarios
- How to adjust the functionality of a power system by modifying its parameters
- Create and analyze protection curves to achieve harmonization between different bays
Organizational Benefits
Companies who send in their employees to participate in this Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Management course can benefit in the following ways:
- Develop a structured approach to the selection of voltage levels and load-handling capabilities of transmission systems
- Determine the minimum requirements to achieve dependability and consistency of transmission
- Improved safety and enhanced productivity
- Capacity to move from a repair/replace focus to predictive/preventative maintenance
- Study about the effects of major power disturbances on transmission systems and their solutions
- Exercise on distribution system design calculations and security precautions
Personal Benefits
Professionals who participate in this Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Management course can benefit in the following ways:
- Depict the system context to scope the system and explore dynamic system boundaries (including large, complex power and energy systems which are difficult to bound)
- Describe how the systems engineer manages systems projects and mitigates risks
- Identify aspects of a problem through a theoretical understanding of the problem
- Create mindfulness of the activities required to deploy, maintain, and sustain a complex system in the operations environment
- Installation & construction switchgear and transformers
- Protection coordination, selectivity, sensitivity, and stability
- Distinguish how technology transfer, reuse, and the analysis of needs and requirements typically take place after a period of successful operations
- Define how to stop and replace a system in the operations environment
- A mathematical approach to the interpretation and analysis of system disturbances
Who Should Attend?
- System Operators
- Design Engineers
- Asset Engineers / Managers
- Industrial Supervisors / Managers
- Project Engineers / Managers
- Electrical Engineers/ Technicians
- Planning Engineers / Managers
- Maintenance team members for all gear crucial for power delivery
- Protection, Instrumentation, and Commissioning Engineers / Technicians
- Employees assigned to site preparation, construction, installation and start-up of transmission, distribution, regulation and point of service equipment
Course Outline
MODULE 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS
- Introduction to Energy Generation
- Photovoltaics
- Thermoelectric devices
- Burning of fossil fuels
- Different methods of generating electricity
- Turbine driven electrochemical generators
- Fuel cells
- Nuclear fission and fusion
- Renewable solar, wind, hydro, tidal, and geothermal sources
- Sustainability and energy efficiency
MODULE 2: TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION / SMART GRID
- Power and Energy and the Environment
- Power and Energy Systems Project Management
- Power and Energy Generation
- Transmission and Distribution / Smart Grid
- Transmission grids
- Load management
- Distribution optimisation
- Transformer technology
- Power supply reliability
- Infrastructure systems
- Principles and Techniques of Wind Energy and Solar Cells
- Power Electronics
- Smart Grids Communications
- Modern power transmission and distribution systems
- Security and deregulation
- SCADA systems
MODULE 3: ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- Global climate change
- Clean energy technologies
- Energy conservation
- A direct and indirect impact of power generation on the environment
- Air pollution
- Water resources
- Nuclear waste issues
MODULE 4: INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
- Why Use Systems Engineering?
- What is Systems Engineering?
- Value of Systems Engineering
- Key-Systems Engineering Principles
- The V Systems Engineering Model
MODULE 5: POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
- Expansion of current power and energy systems
- Systems Engineering applied to power and energy
- Translating operational needs into technology solutions
- Need to plan, coordinate, and oversee interdisciplinary team efforts
- Employing tools to determine if a system will meet cost, schedule, and performance targets
- Methods with potential purposes towards energy systems
- Power and Energy Generation Technology Cost Modeling
- An example of Systems Engineering
- Integral Power and Energy System Design
MODULE 6: POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS ENGINEERING TECHNICAL
- Managing the electric power grid
- Project Management and Systems Engineering Master Plan
- Operations and Maintenance
- System Conceptual Design
- Using the Architecture
- Feasibility Study/Concept Exploration
- Power and Energy Systems Project Management
- Retirement/Replacement
- Concept of Operations
- System Requirements
- System Design
- Systems Architecting
- Software/Hardware Development and Testing
- Integration and Verification
- Initial Deployment
- System Validation
- System of Systems Engineering
- Broad-spectrum of empirical, theoretical and policy issues
- Generation facilities and equipment
MODULE 7: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROCESSES APPLIED TO POWER SYSTEMS
- Definition of the Problem
- Objectives
- Measures of Effectiveness/Measures of Performance
- Concept of Operations
- Needs and Objectives Analysis
MODULE 8: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, REUSE, AND EXPLORATION OF FUTURE NEEDS
- Changeover of a system, its technologies or design to other fields
- Integrating Existing Systems into New Environments
- Capturing mature technologies and intellectual property
- Operations to a Concept Development Lifecycle
MODULE 9: SYSTEM DEPLOYMENT AND OPERATIONS
- Transition to support
- Sustainment of existing systems
- System modifications and upgrades
- Withdrawal and replacement of systems in the operations environment
- Training of end-users and systems administrators
- From Production to Deployment
- Systems fielding
- Operations and maintenance of deployed systems
MODULE 10: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION AND USAGE
- Overview of the major energy flows
- Conventional and sustainable energy production and utilization
- Measurement and Instrumentation
- Fundamentals of thermal and fluid processes in single-phase and multiphase flows as related to this course
- Advanced Convection Heat Transfer
- Advanced Thermodynamics
- Impact of Energy Conversion on the Environment
- Combustion and Reacting Flow
- Production and end-use
- Major end-use categories include industrial uses, transportation and buildings
- Power and Energy Systems Analysis
- Rankin cycles from traditional power plants
- Measurement techniques for pressure, temperature, flow rate, heat flux
- Experimental design and planning
- Sources of errors in measurements
- Uncertainty analysis
MODULE 11: RELIABILITY ANALYSIS AND ENGINEERING
- Principal methods of reliability analysis
- Fault tree and reliability block diagrams
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Systems engineering approaches
- Risk Assessment for Engineers
- Significant performance improvements and savings in capital and operating costs
- Mathematical techniques for engineers
- Applications of matrices, vectors, tensors, differential equations, integral transforms, and probability methods to a wide range of engineering problems
- Market, Spatial, and Traffic Equilibrium Models
MODULE 12: APPLYING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND OPTIMISATION
- Post-optimality analysis
- Optimality and duality
- Mixed (continuous) integer/discrete optimisation: single objective
- Mixed continuous-discrete optimisation: multiple objectives
- Robust optimisation
- Multi-disciplinary optimisation
- Multi-Level Post optimality sensitivity analysis
- Concepts, definitions and examples
- Optimality and convexity
- Linear programming
- Single objective optimisation: unconstrained methods
- Single objective optimisation: constrained methods
- Multi-objective optimisation methods
Method of Instruction: Online
Course Duration: 5 days
Type of Certificate Issued:
Certificate in Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Management
You can choose any of the three below:
- Digital Certificate(Downloadable PDF)
- Physical Certificate with security marking shipped to your location with a price
- Framed Certificate with security markings shipped to your location with a price.
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