This course is designed to enable participants to:

• Identify power quality indices
• Recognize symptoms of power quality problems including sags, swells, under or overvoltage, harmonics, transients, interruptions, wiring and grounding issues
• Classify power quality events according to IEEE and public utility standards
• Explain proper application and interpret results of power quality monitoring equipment
• Recommend viable solutions to power quality problems

This course is intended for utility and industrial managers, electrical engineers, electricians and technicians that install, maintain, repair and/or troubleshoot power and auxiliary systems in oil and gas, data centers, industrial plants, commercial facilities, mines, hospitals, and pulp and paper mills.

General Introduction

• Electrical engineering basic concept
• Three phase review and per unit
• Voltage level

Introduction to Power Quality Analysis

• Review of Industrial Power Systems Concepts
• Power Quality Definitions and Indices
• Equipment Ratings
• Effects of Disturbances on Equipment and Processes

Industry Commitment to Power Quality

• IEEE Standards and Recommendations
• EPRI Survey Results

Harmonics

• Sources of Harmonics
• Symptoms and Effect on Equipment
• Power Factor Correction Capacitors and Resonance
• Harmonic Limitations (IEEE Standard 519)
• Series Resonance and Filter Design
• Third Harmonic Neutral Current

Calculation of Harmonic Voltages and Currents

• System Harmonic Models
• The Current Injection Method
• Frequency Response Modeling

Grounding

• Types of Grounding
• Arcing Ground Faults
• Symptoms of Ineffective Grounding
• Electronics and Computer Grounding

Voltage Disturbances

• Lightning (transients)
• System Switching
• System Faults
• Voltage Sags
• Voltage Swells
• Voltage Unbalance

Case Study: Power Quality Audit in any industrial Plant

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing a minimum of 80% of the total course duration.