Electric power system technology is growing at a tremendous pace. It is a challenge for engineers to stay current with the latest technologies and be able to apply the new knowledge to the system to achieve its best and most cost effective performance.
Electranix will provide courses on site at your premises. This effective training procedure has been successfully applied by Garth Irwin and Dennis Woodford for the Manitoba HVDC Research Centre over many years in locations in Japan, Korea, Sweden, Germany, England, Australia, Canada and the US. By receiving the training at or near your offices, a group of engineers can be jointly instructed at lowest rates. Course instructors will be selected from Garth Irwin, Ani Gole, Dennis Woodford and staff of the Manitoba HVDC Research Centre. Maximum course attendance of 20 is recommended.
All courses and training lectures are enhanced by accompanying hands-on workshops. The graphical PSCAD simulator (using the free Personal Edition of PSCAD) is an ideal way to enhance the comprehension of concepts discussed in the lectures and written in the course text. Each participant or host is responsible for providing personal computers or laptops for the workshops.
The course content can be customized by you in collaboration with Electranix. Example courses are:
- Voltage Sourced Converter (VSC) Transmission
- Understanding and Applying FACTS
- HVDC Transmission
- Insulation Coordination
- Sub-synchronous resonance
- Other Courses
1. Voltage Sourced Converter (VSC) Transmission
Also known as HVDC Light (ABB) and HVDC Plus (Siemens), this new technology is rapidly expanding towards a dominant role in future power transmission and distribution systems. Where the permitting process for new overhead transmission is lengthy and perhaps prohibitive, VSC Transmission is an attractive alternative that provides for the lowest possible cost for underground power cables. In addition, back-to-back voltage sourced converters offer greater scope in voltage and power control not available by any other means. The course will give you a good technical understanding of VSC Transmission and its controls and applications.
2. Understanding and Applying FACTS
The need to understand FACTS technologies is essential before FACTS can be effectively applied to strengthen and increase the capacity of a transmission system. It is important for the transmission engineer to confidently and quickly come to the best solution for the transmission system. That best solution may or may not be based on a FACTS controller. Even to come up with the best option that is not FACTS requires an good understanding of the technology. This course will be based around the text Understanding FACTS: Concepts and Technology of Flexible AC Transmission Systems by Narain Hingorani and Laszlo Gyugyi. The Manitoba HVDC Research Centre and Electranix will have a workbook based on examples from this text and using PSCAD for enhanced learning.
3. HVDC Transmission
When staff needs to be brought up to speed on HVDC transmission, we can cover all the essential aspects. Training can cover the role of controls and protections, voltage control, commutation failure and insulation coordination, compensation and short circuit ratio, transformer rating and filters. The application of capacitor commutated converters (CCC) and controlled series capacitor compensation (CSCC) can be discussed along with multiterminal dc transmission and its challenges.
4. Insulation Coordination
Substations are prone to overvoltages caused from switching operations and lightning. The traditional means of designing the insulation coordination, the selection of surge arresters and determining recovery voltages across circuit breakers will be covered by this course as well as determining transient overvoltages, statistical distribution of transient overvoltages and lightning induced overvoltages.
5. Sub-synchronous resonance
Sub-synchronous resonance, or low frequency oscillations due to torsional interactions between machine masses, network resonances or power electronic controls is an important issue for modern power systems. We have developed unique techniques, as well as utilizing traditional analysis techniques in order to provide effective study of these phenomena. Courses can cover SSR theory and provide detailed study techniques using PSCAD and popular math software to equip your engineers to deal with this crucial subject.
Other Courses
Other course content can be designed around your precise requirements, combining existing courses or custom designed based on our fields of expertise. If you have more questions regarding our course offerings, please contact us and we will be pleased to help you set up a course that will best meet your needs.
