API 6D & 6FA: Specification for the Design, Manufacturing, Testing, Documentation, and Fire Test of Pipeline & Piping Valves

What are the Goals?

By the end of this Electrical Power System Medium and High Voltage Switch Gear training course, participants will learn to:

• Recognise the types and characteristics of medium and high voltage switchgears
• Explore the merits of eco efficient and eco-friendly switchgears
• Understand the merits of ester based oils for transformers
• Appreciate the use of green gases for gas insulated substations and circuit breakers
• Achievement of well maintained and safe switchgears for operations

Who is this Training Course for?

This Electrical Power System Medium and High Voltage Switch Gear training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Electrical engineers
• Maintenance technicians
• Electrical supervisors
• Engineering professionals
• Managers of the electrical engineering department

Daily Agenda

Day One: Introduction to Medium and High Voltage Power Transformer and Instrument Transformers 

• Construction and characteristics of transmission and distribution transformers
• Major common components and functionalities of a power transformer
• Digital components of power transformers
• Power transformer protection methods
• Current transformer characteristics and construction
• Capacitance voltage transformer construction and operations 

Day Two: Types of Medium Voltage and High Voltage Circuit Breakers Operations and Characteristics 

• Principles and importance of arc quenching in circuit breakers
• Air circuit breakers operation, construction, and characteristics
• Sulfur hexafluoride circuit breakers operations and construction
• Construction live tank and dead tank circuit breakers
• Medium voltage vacuum circuit breaker construction and characteristics
• Hybrid medium voltage circuit breakers 

Day Three: Reduction of Global Warming Potential Reduction of Carbon Footprint 

• Importance of carbon footprint reduction and its impacts
• Greenhouse gases produced by electrical switchgears
• Natural and synthetic ester base dielectric fluid for power transformer
• Various green gases as replacement for sulfur hexaflouride
• Eco efficient gas insulated substation switchgears
• State-of-the-art eco-friendly medium and high voltage vacuum circuit breaker 

Day Four: Maintenance and Diagnostic Instruments for Medium and High Voltage Switchgears 

• Importance of maintenance
• Maintenance strategies with emphasis on condition based maintenance
• Merits of thermography and relevant test instruments
• Partial discharge presence in medium and high voltage switchgears and mitigation techniques
• Power transformer routine tests and relevant instrument
• Remote monitoring of dissolved gas analysis for transformer 

Day Five: Introduction to Digital Substations Comprising of the Main Electrical Power Switchgears 

• Overview and merits of a digital substation
• Components of a digital substations including intelligent electronic devices and fiber optics cable
• Digital transformer incorporating robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of thing (IoT)
• Integration of switchgears between renewable energy and the grid