Powerplan provides the following Power System Protection training courses for maintenance and engineering personnel, which can be customised to cover site specific requirements:
Fundamentals Course
- Instrument Transformers: CT/VT Types & Classes.
- Protection Types: Overcurrent; Overload; Earth Fault; Unit.
- Equipment Protection: Feeders; Transformers; Switchgear; Motors.
- Protection Communications & Control: Intertripping; Check Sync; IEC61850.
- Fault Levels & Equipment Ratings: HV; LV; 3 Phase; Earth Fault; Equipment Ratings; Inrush.
- Protection Settings: Setting Overcurrent Curves; Grading.
- Arc Flash: Calculation & Detection.
- DC Supply: DC Supplies; Tests.
- Site Tests: CTs; VTs; Protection Relay.
Advanced Course
- Protection Requirements: Protection Objectives; Types; Coordination; Backup & Duplicate;
- Unit Protection: Transformer; Distance Schemes.
- Generator Protection: Operation; Faults; Protection.
- Earth Fault Protection: Transformer Vector Group; Zero Sequence; High/Low Impedance; Earthing; Step & Touch Potentials; Residual & Core Balance.
- Fault Locating: Protection Coordination; Relays; Testing.
- IEC 61850: Protocols; Application; Interlocking; Programmability; Clearance Time Effects on Arc Flash; Measurements; Intertripping.
- Arc Flash Detection: Light; Pressure; Overcurrent Restraint; Exhaust Gas Monitoring; Control/Protection Distinction.