Course description
Professional Certificate of Competency in Substation Design (Main Equipment)
Depending on the functions performed by a substation, the configuration and complexity can be quite varied. The skill of the designer is to anticipate the present and future needs that the substation will cater to, select appropriate design configuration and calculate the ratings of main equipment such as busbars, transformers and switchgear so as to ensure trouble free service over a number of decades. Sufficient thought should be given to the need for maintaining critical substation equipment and appropriate redundancies must be planned as well. This is essential as otherwise the consumers fed by the substation can suffer frequent supply outages, which is undesirable from service as well as financial point of view.
A designer should have clear understanding of the studies that need to be performed in a given case and should also be able to decide the conditions that are needed to be simulated for each study.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What will you learn
- Calculate substation capacity based on load requirements and decide upon a suitable location
- Select a suitable configuration of the substation and size the main equipment
- Plan for appropriate system studies and draw up a specification for system studies
- Decide on the layout of an outdoor HV switchyard showing main and auxiliary equipment
- Choose equipment for fault limiting, VAR compensation and harmonic control and adjust the switchyard layout to include these systems
- Plan indoor substations with medium voltage switchgear and select the required equipment ratings
- Work out a suitable layout for the MV switchgear and associated equipment
Training Course Content
Modules
- ROLE OF SUBSTATIONS IN AN ELECTRICAL NETWORK, TYPES AND CONFIGURATIONS OF SUBSTATIONS
- EXAMPLES/CASE STUDIES OF SUBSTATION LOCATION AND SELECTION OF CONFIGURATION
- SYSTEM STUDIES REQUIRED FOR FINALISING EQUIPMENT RATINGS
- EXAMPLES/CASE STUDIES OF SYSTEM STUDIES REQUIRED AND SYSTEM STUDY SPECIFICATIONS
- OVERVIEW OF SWITCHYARD EQUIPMENT AND THEIR ORDERING SPECIFICATIONS
- EXAMPLES/CASE STUDIES OF SUBSTATION EQUIPMENT RATINGS/ORDERING SPECIFICATIONS
- SUBSTATION EQUIPMENT FOR FAULT LIMITING, PF COMPENSATION
- SUBSTATION EQUIPMENT FOR HARMONIC CONTROL
- OVERVIEW OF MEDIUM VOLTAGE (MV) METAL ENCLOSED SUBSTATION EQUIPMENT
- EXAMPLES/CASE STUDIES OF MV SUBSTATION EQUIPMENT DESIGN
- MV SUBSTATION DESIGN AND SPECIFICATIONS
- EXAMPLES/CASE STUDIES OF MV SUBSTATION EQUIPMENT LAYOUT
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