PROGRAM'S BACKGROUND

Electric power systems are the components that transform other types of energy into electrical energy and transmit this energy to a consumer. The production and transmission of electricity is relatively efficient and inexpensive, although unlike other forms of energy, electricity is not easily stored and thus must generally be used as it is being produced.

A modern electric power system consists of six main components: the power station, a set of transformers to raise the generated power to the high voltages used on the transmission lines, the transmission lines, the substations at which the power is stepped down to the voltage on the distribution lines, the distribution lines, and the transformers that lower the distribution voltage to the level used by the consumer's equipment. This program is an introduction to the field of electric power systems as it covers the following;

›       Fundamentals of energy conversion system

›       Modeling of main power network components such as power transmission lines, transformers and synchronous machines

›       Basic description of their behavior using appropriate representations

›       Simplification of problems using transformation techniques

›       Fundamentals of network analysis, power system representation, power load flow

›       Review of symmetrical components and short circuit analysis

PROGRAM'S OBJECTIVES

This Program’s Attendees Will Be More Able To:

›       Know the components of electrical power systems

›       Understand the fundamental nature of power systems

›       Describe of the common methods of converting energy to electric power

›       Know and describe the classical power system structure

›       Know the electric power systems employed in most electric power applications

›       Understand and perform steady-state analysis for a balanced three-phase power system

›       Know the importance of systems with a relatively large number of phases in certain specialized applications such as controlled rectifiers for aluminum smelters

›       Represent elements of a power system including generators, transmission lines, and transformers

›       Understand the functioning of a synchronous machine and represent it with simple models

›       Construct a composite system by the interconnection of the elements of a power system

›       Analyze multi node power systems using an admittance matrix or impedance matrix representation of the power system

›       Factor the admittance matrix to obtain a solution of the network voltages

›       Generate the elements of the impedance matrix from the elements of the admittance matrix without a matrix inversion

›       Understand the formulation of the power flow problem, and have the ability to cast any given system in this framework

›       Solve power flow problems by application of the Newton method

›       Design a transmission addition to a power system using tools and methods from the program

›       Formulate a mathematical model for analyzing faults on power systems

›       Know about the Load flow with and without control action

PROGRAM'S ATTENDEES

›       Power system Analysts and Engineers

›       Engineers and Senior Technicians responsible for the operation of energy management systems

›       Electrical Engineers and Supervisors

›       Designers of energy management systems

›       Consultants and Researchers in the field of operation and control of power systems

›       Electrical Operations Supervisors 

PROGRAM'S OUTLINE

ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS COMPONENTS

›       Power station

›       Transformers

›       Transmission lines

›       Substations

›       Distribution lines

›       Supplementary equipment

›       Regulators

›       Circuit breakers

›       Fuses

INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL ENERGY SYSTEM

›       Sources of energy

›       Electromechanical energy conversion

›       Environmental impact of electricity generation and transmission

›       The generation subsystem

›       The transmission subsystem

›       The distribution subsystem

›       Power industry structure

INTRODUCTION TO POLYPHASE NETWORKS ANALYSIS

›       Sinusoidal steady state analysis

›       Phasor representation

›       Power calculation in single phase ac circuits

›       Balanced three phase circuits

›       Delta connection

›       Wye connection

›       Power calculations in balanced three phase circuits

›       Per phase analysis

TRANSFORMERS & PER-UNIT SYSTEMS

›       The ideal transformer

›       Three phase transformer

›       An actual transformer

›       Introduction to per unit systems

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION & TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS

›       Electric power generation

›       Electric power transmission

›       Transmission line components

›       Complex power transmission

INTRODUCTION TO LOAD FLOW

›       Power flow

›       Bus admittance matrix

›       The power flow problem

›       Newton Raphson Iteration

›       Application to power flow equations

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