Course Syllabus: Power Systems Essentials

EDSA's Power Systems Essentials course is a three-day, hands-on workshop that teaches users the core skills required to build and optimized a power systems model, to ensure maximum reliability, safety, and energy efficiency.  Among other engineering tasks, students learn how to perform studies for power flow, short circuit, protective device coordination, arc flash, and other engineering tasks.  At the conclusion of the course, students will be capable of modeling high-performance power infrastructure that meets all user requirements, and adheres to leading electrical safety standards.

By attending this three-day workshop, the attendees will learn:

• Power Flow studies: scope, methods, input data, output report, organizing a power flow report and connecting the report to the project, voltage control, load analysis, dynamic individual motor starting, simultaneous multiple motor starting, motor starting impact to the study network;
• Short Circuit studies: scope, methods IEEE and IEC, input data, output report, organizing a short circuit report and connecting the report to the project, protective device evaluation (PDE), sliding faults;
• PDC studies: scope, protection principles, protection coordination, data base, generating a PDC data base, input data, output report, organizing a PDC Report and connecting the Report and PDC curves to the project;
• Arc flash investigation, creating and implementing the labels and PPE;
• Paladin DesignBase structure and features;
• Managing the Paladin DesignBase tools;
• Organizing a project and the project files;

Day One

• CAD modeller GUI ;
• Catalog Management;
• Single Line Diagram Setup;
• Defining Scenarios;
• Project Management (*.axd, *.mas, *.epr. project files);
• Multiple Page Projects;
• Multiple Drawings Project;
• Multiple Drawings and Pages Project;
• Electrical interconnection: multiple pages, multiple drawings projects;
• Hyper-linking;
• Hyper-linking to the Internet and other applications;
• Back Annotation;
• The Symbol Property Menu;
• Customizing Single Line Diagrams;
• Importing Drawings from AutoCAD and other applications;
• Practical Exercises (Ex.1 project completion);
• Managing & Assigning Feeder and Transformer Databases;
• Load Flow Analysis;
• Voltage Control (Transformer Taps & Reactive Power options)
• Transformer Sizing using Load Flow Results
• Motor Starting Analysis using the load flow methodology
• Motor Starting Methods (standard, capacitor assisted, capacitor/reactor assisted)
• The Load Flow/Motor Starting Graphical Browser;
• Scenario Voltage Profile analysis;
• Automatic Contingency Analysis;
• Voltage Profile Methodology;
• Practical Exercises.

Day Two

• Advanced Load Flow Analysis;
• Under Load Tap Changers (ULTC);
• Local and Remote Voltage Control using ULTC's and SVC's;
• Induction Motor Parameters and Advanced Motor Starting;
• Simultaneous Load Flow & Dynamic Motor Starting;
• Simultaneous Motor Starting Analysis;
• Advanced Graphical Outputs & Reports;
• Practical Exercises;
• 3 Phase Short Circuit Analysis;
• Short Circuit Analysis Options;
• L-G, L-L, L-L-G and 3P reporting;
• IEC and ANSI Output reports;
• Arc Fault Energy Analysis; IEEE 1584, NFPA 70 E;
• Single Phase Short Circuit Analysis;
• Practical Exercises (Ex.1 Project completion).

Day Three

• Managing Protective Device Coordination Databases;
• Importing Motor Starting Curves from the Motor Torque and Performance Program;
• Protective Device Coordination Analysis;
• Protective Device Coordination Analysis (Continued);
• Principles of DC Protective Device Coordination;
• Injection of Fault Currents and Tripping Time Evaluation;
• Customizing and Importing the Time Current Coordination Graph;
• Practical Exercises (Short Circuit, Load Flow, Motor Starting and PDC);
• Introduction to Harmonics;
• Linear & Non-Linear Loads;
• Harmonic Sequencing;
• Transformers and K Factors;
• Capacitors & Resonance;
• Frequency Scan;
• The Harmonics Program Control Interface;
• Modeling Harmonics Sources in EDSA;
• Frequency Scans and Resonance;
• The IEEE 519 Reporting Interface;
• Adding Filters (Manually and using Auto Filter Sizing);
• Phase Shifting Transformers;
• Practical Exercise

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