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Certificate Fundamentals of Electrical Substation and Switchyard Design (online)
Course
Online
Description
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Type
Course
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Level
Beginner
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Methodology
Online
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Duration
4 Months
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Online campus
Yes
A substation is a part of an electrical generation, transmission, and distribution system. Substations transform voltage from high to low, or the reverse, or perform any of several other important functions. Between the generating station and consumer, electric power may flow through several substations at different voltage levels.
Substations may be owned and operated by an electrical utility, or may be owned by a large industrial or commercial customer. Generally substations are unattended, relying on SCADA for remote supervision and control.
About this course
10th passed candidate
10th passed candidate
10th passed candidate
ONLIEN STUDY
ONLINE SELF LEARNING PROGRAM
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Reviews
Subjects
- Surveillance
- Planning water requirements
- Supply arrangement
- Fire protection
- Lighting and ventilation
- Planning
- Network
- Layout
- World Studies
- Planning Process
Teachers and trainers (1)
SNEHA SHARMA
COUNSELOR
Course programme
Recording 1
Role of substations in an electrical network, types and configurations of substations
- Networks – an introduction
- Different voltages in a network
- Substations as network nodes
- Substation types based on their position in the network
- Optimising the location of a substation
- Substation options: Outdoor air insulated, GIS, Indoor air insulated
- Configurations of HV substations based on their bus arrangement (typical SLD)
- Data on the industrial loads required for the design of the electrical supply substation
- Load assumptions for residential and commercial consumers
- Environmental issues in the location of a switchyard and mitigation measures
Recording 2
System studies required for finalising equipment ratings
- Load flow study (active/reactive loads)
- Short circuit study
- Harmonic flow
- Voltage profile and reactive power compensation
- Stability study
- Note: The objective/relevance of each of these studies to the substation equipment selection and specifications, the inputs required and outputs expected will be covered in this section. A broad overview of the studies will be provided without going into the actual calculations involved.
Recording 3
Overview of switchyard equipment and their ordering specifications
- Main (primary) equipment
- Busbars
- Disconnectors
- Circuit breakers
- Instrument transformers
- Lightning arrestors
- Power transformers
- Structures
- Layout options
- Sectional and Safety clearances and their influence on the layout
- Design of busbars (strung/tubular) and interconnections between equipment
- Interconnecting cables and use of marshalling kiosks
Recording 4
Protection design for substation
- Brief overview of protection
- Over current protection
- Protection coordination
- Protection of transformers
- Busbar protection
- Feeder protection
- Current transformers requirements for protection
- Equipment requirements for substation automation
- PLCC applications in protection and communication
- PLCC hardware and integrating them with the switchyard equipment
Recording 5
Substation equipment for fault limiting, PFC and harmonic control
- Need for and application of:
- Fault limiting reactors
- Power factor compensation equipment
- Static VAR compensators
- Harmonic filters
- Equipment design and selection of ratings
- Layout of these equipment in a switchyard
Recording 6
Earthing system and lightning protection of switchyards
- Basics of functional and protective earthing
- Touch and step voltages in substations
- Earth grid and its role in safety
- Switchyard fence-why it should be a part of the earth grid
- Design of earth grid-basic considerations in conductor sizing and mesh spacing
- Pros and cons of including the control building within the switchyard earth grid
- Earth mat laying and welding
- Safety mesh at operating points
- Role of gravel layer in safety
- Transferred voltage hazards
- Planning isolation of outgoing services to avoid transfer voltage
- Basics of lightning and hazards
- Role of shield wire and lightning masts
- Typical configurations of lightning protection of switchyards
- Analysis of hazard using cone of protection and rolling sphere methods
- Selection of lightning arrestors-Types, class and ratings
Recording 7
Switchyard control and interlocking
- Dc power requirements for switchyard equipment
- Dc equipment configuration and specifications
- Dc distribution for switchyard equipment
- Battery calculations basis
- Space planning and related facilities for a battery installation
- Ac auxiliary power for switchyard systems-loads which require ac power
- Possible source options
- Ac auxiliary distribution for switchyard equipment and support systems
- Control scheme of disconnectors and circuit breakers
- Control interconnection approach
- Use of optical fibre-based control scheme
- Role and location of marshalling kiosks in different bays
Recording 8
Switchyard-facility planning
- Site preparation, levelling
- Earth resistivity measurement and its role in design verification
- Civil works such as equipment foundations, cable trenches, control building, storm drains, transformer oil collection pit
- Structures and their design requirements
- Substation fence and physical security
- Surveillance
- Planning water requirements and supply arrangement
- Fire protection, lighting and ventilation of control room and other equipment
Certificate Fundamentals of Electrical Substation and Switchyard Design (online)