This course is recommended for maintenance technicians, field engineers, and operators who are required to work with fixed plant generation equipment.
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Power generation is no longer the primary domain of electric utilities. Many electrical engineering and maintenance personnel now have the responsibility for non utility generator systems.
How do you know if your generator control problems result from a deficiency in the prime mover or in the voltage regulator/exciter? Perhaps it's neither; maybe you're just facing grid fluctuations. But how do you know?
When it comes to malfunctions in geneators and voltage regulators/exciters and prime movers (and their effects), there's not much information out there for maintenance engineers or electricians. And to make matters worse, the information that is out there is often unnecessarily complicated and hard to follow.
Our 2-Day Generators and Voltage Regulators course is designed to answer many of these questions. It includes a detailed study of power generators and voltage regulators, and the interaction between the two. The course also provides a solid understanding of generator paralleling, VAR flows, and generator/regulator response to changing loads and system voltages. A good working knowledge of polyphase AC theory is recommended as a prerequisite; however, a refresher of the important fundamentals is presented at the beginning of the course.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This course is designed to enable participants to:
- Identify the peak and effective AC voltage values on a waveform
- Describe the fundamental operations of a generator
- Describe how generators operate in parallel
- Describe the operating principle of differential protection
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DAY ONE
I. Fundamentals of AC Power
- AC waveforms
- AC phase relationships
- Resistance in AC circuits
- Capacitance in AC circuits
- Power in AC circuits
II. Semiconductor Fundamentals
- Atomic review
- Semiconductor conduction
- Extrinsic semiconductors
- Diodes
- Transistors
- Silicon controlled rectifiers
- Thyrite
- Logic review
- Operational amplifiers
III. AC Synchronous Generators
- Voltage regulator function
- Voltage regulator components
- Voltage regulator operation
- Auxiliary regulator functions
- Voltage regulator troubleshooting
DAY TWO
IV. Voltage Regulators/Exciters
- Voltage regulator function
- Voltage regulator components
- Voltage regulator operation
- Auxiliary regulator functions
- Voltage regulator troubleshooting
V. Generator Protection
- Short circuit protection
- Ground fault protection
- Overload protection
- Thermal protection
- Overspeed protection
- Low field excitation or loss of field excitation protection
- Generator motoring protection
- Protection against unbalanced faults
- Overexcitation protection
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COURSE TIMETABLE
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.
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- Successful completion of this course qualifies delegates to receive a certificate of course completion with indicated CEUs.
- CEUs are granted by the Engineering Institute of Canada.
- One CEU is equivalent to 10 professional development hours of instruction.
- This course earns 0.6 CEUs.
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