INTRODUCTION:
General blackouts are brought on by underinvesting in infrastructure, poor planning, a lack of incident preparedness, and improperly assessing the voltage needs and operational circumstances of your power system. To prevent power outages, any power distribution system must be reliable.
Lack of preparation for power outages can have severe repercussions, including risk to life due to the inability of vital services like hospitals or telephones to operate as intended, loss of income, terrible power quality, and other transmission difficulties.
Due to the prioritization of the deregulation of the electricity market, a growth in load consumption, and the challenges of constructing new transmission lines and major power plants, power networks operate with low security thresholds today. As a result, the vulnerability of power systems becomes an extremely important concern, and the chance of a significant blackout tends to rise, as evidenced by the numerous prior instances.
Course Objectives
Upon completing this Power System Blackouts and Restoration course successfully, participants will be able to:
- Analyse power quality
- Gain a comprehensive knowledge of power system blackouts and prevention
- Determine the blackout concerns and review recent blackouts, its causes and lessons learned from these incidents
- List methods used to improve power quality
- Identify the various instability mechanisms and transients and analyse the cold inrush current effects on blackout
- Discuss analysis concepts when examining potential power quality and interruption issues
- Assess power outages for potential risks
- Understand how power outages can start and cascade
- Apply procedures to ensure power continuity
- Recognise the role of induction motors in triggering blackouts
- Employ blackout preventive measures and identify the process of monitoring and control
- Use a structured approach on system restoration planning in consideration to the tools, guidelines, techniques, and procedures for system restoration plan implementation
- Consider a variety of planning techniques for Power Blackouts
- Consider the use of SMART technology
Organisational Benefits
Companies who nominate their employees to participate in this Power System Blackouts and Restoration course can benefit in the following ways:
- Designers, Engineers, Technicians and Responsible Persons can gain knowledge of current practices when looking to ensure reliable power supplies.
- Designers, Engineers, Technicians and Responsible Persons can obtain knowledge to understand how Blackouts occur and how to mitigate against such occurrences
- Use knowledge gained to reduce the negative impact on customers who face power outages
- Key personnel can prepare contingency plans for power quality issues and potential power outages
Personal Benefits
Individuals who participate in this Power System Blackouts and Restoration course can gain from it in the following ways:
- Learn new practices to ensure power quality and reliability
- Appreciate and understand power quality issues such as blackouts and poor-quality power
- Keep up with late-breaking developments in Power System Blackouts and Restoration by studying new literature and other sources of information
- Benefit from a tailor-made academic program for technicians or equivalent workforce involved in Power System Blackouts and Restoration
Who Should Attend?
This Power System Blackouts and Restoration course would be suitable for:
- Generation and transmission planners
- Protection engineers
- Electrical construction engineers
- Power system analysts and engineers
- ISO/RTO technical staff
- Commissioning Supervisors
- Economic and management consultants
- Operations supervisors
- Power developers and marketers
- Power exchange personnel
- Regulatory staff
Course Outline
MODULE 1: OVERVIEW OF BLACKOUT CONCERNS
- Overview Blackout Causes
- Blackouts, Causes and Lessons Learnt
- Self-organising Criticality and the Edge of Chaos
- Causes of Blackout
- Instability and transient issues
- Instability Mechanisms & Transients
- Cold Inrush Current Effects on Blackout
- Induction Motors Role in Triggering Blackout
MODULE 2: STABILITY CONTROL
- Angle Stability Control
- Voltage Stability Control
- Power system analysis
- Blackout preventative measures
- Blackout prevention analysis
- VAR Compensation
- Voltage stability
- Reactive Capability Limitation of Synchronous Machines
- Optimising Generator Reactive Power Resources
MODULE 3: BLACKOUTÂ PREVENTIVE MEASURES
- Wide-Area Monitoring and Control
- General & Network Voltage Control
- Compliance with Reliability Standards
- Loads Voltage Stabilisation
- Static VAR Compensators
- Voltage Stabilisers
- AGC Implementation
- Role of HVDC Systems in System Stability
MODULE 4: RESTORATION OVERVIEW
- Power System Restoration-First Task Force Report
- Analytical Tools for Power System Restoration-Conceptual Design
- System Operations Challenge
- Protection Relays Issues During Restoration
- Overvoltage Control During Restoration
- Power System Restoration Issues
- Asymmetry Issues in Power System Restoration
- Steam Plant Start-up and Control in System Restoration
- Heuristic Approaches to Distribution System Restoration
MODULE 5: SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN SYSTEM RESTORATION
- Power System Restoration-The Second Task Force Report
- System Restoration and Black Start Capabilities
- Tie Line Utilisation During Power System Restoration
- Using HVDC Links in Power System Restoration
MODULE 6: NEW APPROACHES IN POWER SYSTEM RESTORATION
- Knowledge-Based Systems
- Real-Time Considerations
- Power System Restoration with an Expert System
- Expert System Requirements for Power System Restoration
- Algorithm for Service Restoration in Distribution Systems
MODULE 7: BLACKOUT & RESTORATION TRAINING
- Development of a Large-Scale Dispatcher Training Simulator and Results
- Dispatcher Training Simulators-Lessons Learned
- An Advanced Transportable Operator Training Simulator
- Restoration Simulator Prepares Operators for Major Blackouts
- Bulk Power System Restoration Training Techniques
- Evaluating a Restoration Tool Using an Operator Training Simulator
MODULE 8: SYSTEM RESTORATION DESIGN
- Policies for Restoration of a Power System
- Analytical Tool Requirements for Power System Restoration
- Role of Interactive and Control
- Development of a System Restoration Plan
- Deploying the Plan
- Power System Restoration Planning
- Estimating Restoration Duration
MODULE 9: OPERATORS VIEW AND SUPPORTING TOOLS
- Graphic Displays and Human Factors Engineering
- Human Error Reduction Techniques
- Risk Management Software
Method of Instruction
Online
Course Duration:
5days
Type of Certificate Issued:
On a successful completion of this training, Participants will be issued
Certificate in : Power System Blackouts and Restoration
Participants can choose to have their certificate in any of the three options 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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