Courses

  • Substation Basics

    Course description

    Substation Basics is an introductory course to high voltage substations. It covers introduction to high voltage substations, high voltage equipment, auxiliary systems, and protection & control systems. HV substation project stages and schedule is also covered.

     

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course the participant has basic information about the following:

    • What is a HV substation
    • HV substation types and busbar schemes
    • Bay types and functions
    • HV equipment and its functions
    • Auxiliary Systems
    • Protection and control systems
    • HV substation construction

  • Substation Design

    Course description

    Substation Design is an introductory course to high voltage substation design. It covers introduction to documentation and design process and basics of primary design, secondary design, auxiliary systems design and automation design.

     

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course the participant has basic information about the following:

    • Documentation and design process
    • Primary design
      • Layout, section and placement drawings
      • Earthing, lighting protection and short circuit studies
      • Steel structure and civil design
    • Secondary design
      • Single Line Diagrams
      • Protection, circuit and wiring diagrams, panel layouts
    • Auxiliary systems design
      • AC/DC system design
    • Automation design
      • System, interlocking, diagrams
      • Signal, IP-address list
      • Telecommunication design

  • Substation Protection

    Course description

    Substation Protection is an introductory course to substation protection systems from HV, MV and LV levels. It covers introduction to protection functions, voltage- and current transformers, fault analysis, configuration, testing and  digital substation protection.

     

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course the participant has basic information about the following:

    • Substation protection systems
    • Protection functions
      • Overcurrent-, Earth fault-, differential-, distance-, busbar-, generator-,  arc protection etc.
    • Voltage/Current transformers
    • Digital substation
      • Centralized protection
      • Merging units
    • Configuration and testing of substation protection systems
    • Fault analysis

  • Substation Automation

    Course description

    Substation Automation is an introductory course to substation automation systems.
    It covers introduction to substation automation systems, automation equipment, network architecture, communication cables, IEC61850 and configuration and testing of substation automation systems.

     

    Learning objectives

    By the end of the course the participant has basic information about the following:

    • Substation automation systems
    • Automation equipment
      • RTU/GW, HMI, Ethernet switches, GPS clock
    • Network architecture
      • Star, ring and double start topology
    • Communication cables
      • Ethernet cables (twisted pair)
      • Fiber Optic cables
    • IEC61850
      • Station bus and process bus
      • Substation configuration language, GOOSE, MMS, SV
    • Configuration and testing of substation automation systems

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