Military Electrical Grounding Training

• Military Electrical Engineers and Engineering Technicians
• Military Base Project Engineers
• Design Engineers, Field Technicians, Military-Grade Electrical Technicians
• Sensitive Electronic Equipment Operators
• Air Force Electrical Engineers/technicians
• Aircraft technicians
• Naval Electrical Engineers/Technicians/
• Military Electrical Supervisors
• Telecommunication technical personnel
• Civil technical personnel in military bases

Military Electrical Grounding Training Course Outline

DAY ONE

SESSION 1: ELECTRICAL GROUNDING – SCOPE

• Definitions
• Applications
• Grounding methods
• Ground Faults
• Why Ground Circuits and Systems
• Grounding Systems

SESSION 2: CLASSIFICATION OF VARIOUS GROUNDING STANDARDS. CODES AND RULES

• MIL-HDBK-419 A Grounding, bonding, and shielding for electronic equipments and facilities
• MIL-HDBK-274(AS) - Electrical Grounding for aircraft safety
• MIL-STD-188-124B - Grounding, Bonding and shielding
• MIL-HDBK-1004/6 - Lightning Protection
• MIL-STD-464 - Electromagnetic environmental effects requirements
• MIL-STD-461 - Requirements for the Control of EMI and Susceptibility
• MIL-STD-1399-070 - Interface STD for Shipboard Systems
• DoDD 4650.1 - Management and Use of the Radio Frequency Spectrum
• DoDI 6055.11 - Protection of DoD Personnel from Exposure to Radio Frequency Radiation and Military Exempt Lasers
• NACSEM 5112 - NONSTOP Evaluation Techniques
• TEMPEST/1-92 - Requirements, Electromagnetic
• NTIA - Manual of Regulations and Procedures for Federal Radio Frequency Management

SESSION 3: ELECTRICAL GROUNDING ELECTRODE SYSTEM

• Grounding Theory
• Parameters, Measurements and Calculations
• Types of grounds: Dirty Ground/Clean Ground
• Connecting IACS to the ground bed
• Star Point Ground, single point connection
• How not to ground
• Electrical Grounding and Corrosion
• Installation and Protection
• Sizing the Grounding Electrode Conductor

SESSION 4: CIRCUIT GROUNDING

• Sources of electrical power
• Grounded Conductor
• Direct-Current Systems
• Alternating-Current System
• Solidly Grounding system
• Resistance Grounding
• MCC’s-Motors grounding
• Rigging Shore Power
• External source through shore power cables

SESSION 5: EQUIPMENT BONDING & GROUNDING

• Major Requirements:
• Identification of the Bonding Conductor
• Bonding/Grounding and electric Shock
• Equipment cabinets and hardware items
• Aircraft grounding jacks
• Servicing and maintenance equipment grounds
• TEMPEST
• Emission control (EMCON)
• Electronic protection (EP)

SESSION 6: EMERGENCY POWER SYSTEMS

• Proper grounding of emergency power systems (generators)
• Three Pole emergency generator grounding
• Four Pole emergency generator grounding.
• Main Bonding Jumper
• Portable generators
• Vehicle Mounted Generators

DAY TWO

SESSION 7: ELECTRICAL GROUNDING FOR AIRCRAFT SAFETY

• System Reference Zero
• Hazards during aircraft maintenance, fueling, store, handling & parking
• Aircraft grounding, fueling/refueling evolution
• Aircraft maintenance evolution
• Aircraft grounding, parked evolution
• Static Grounding
• Distinction between Power Grounding & Static Grounding
• Fueling & refueling Bonding & Grounding triangulation
• Grounding cables
• Bonding Cables
• Flight line electrical distribution (FLED) system
• Aircraft supplied with external power

SESSION 8: OFF-SHORE & SHIP’S GROUNDING SYSTEM

• System Reference Zero
• Detection of a Faulty Neutral-Ground
• System Sizing Wiring to Meet Computer Industry Standards
• Shipboard internal electromagnetic environment (EME)
• Grounding Line Treatment Devices
• Transient Overvoltage Protector Grounding
• Gas Tubes Metal Oxide Varistors Silicon Avalanche Diodes
• Ship’s Computer Grounding System
• Ship’s Ground plane(s)/Elements of the ground plane
• Superstructure, equipment foundations and racks
• Shielded room(s)

SESSION 9: LIGHTNING PROTECTION

• Electrical Grounding & Lightning
• Characteristics Protection Systems
• Electrogeometric & Rolling Sphere Concept
• NAVFAC Design Guides
• Ordnance Facilities Protection
• Storage and Handling Facilities Above Ground
• Earth-Covered Magazines
• Cranes on Piers and Wharves
• Marshalling Yards (Truck and Railroad)
• Explosives safety requirements
• Transient Overvoltage Protector Grounding
• Gas Tubes Metal Oxide Varistors Silicon Avalanche Diodes

SESSION 10: GROUNDING OF SIGNAL REFERENCE SUBSYSTEM

• Electronic equipment grounding
• Introduction and Definitions
• Computer and Electronic Equipment Grounding
• Data Processing Equipment
• SIGNAL REFERENCE SUBSYSTEM NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS
• Floating Ground
• Single-Point Ground (for Lower Frequencies)
• Multipoint Ground (for Higher Frequencies)
• Equipotential Plane
• Types of Equipotential Planes
• Floating System

SESSION 11: TELECOMMUNICATION SITE GROUNDING

• Grounding Subsystems
• Exterior Ground Ring
• Interior Ground Ring –
• Field transmitter grounding
• Techniques for floating transmitters
• Single Point grounding system
• Equipment & Cabinet grounding

SESSION 12: INTERFERENCE COUPLING AND REDUCTION

• EMI on electronic circuits
• Nuclear emp effects
• Susceptibility - Immunity
• Minimization techniques. .
• Cable Shielding and Grounding
• Losses by Absorption and reflection
• Grounding Low- and High-Frequency Shielding
• Grounding High-frequency Shielding
• Coaxial Cables
• Superficial Resistivity
• Resonance and Skin Effect
• Facility and equipment requirements.
• SHIELDED ENCLOSURES (SCREEN ROOMS)
• PERSONNEL PROTECTION SHIELDS.

Review of expectations
Questions and Answers

COURSE TIMETABLE

Both days:

Start: 8:00 a.m.
Coffee Break: 10:00 a.m.
Lunch: 12:00 noon
Restart: 1:15 p.m.
Finish: 4:30 p.m.