Continuing Education Units (CEUs) Now Offered

Who Should Attend:
This course is recommended for:

• Electrical Engineers
• Electrical Maintenance Tradespeople & Technicians
• Instrumentation and Control Engineers
• Power System Protection and Control Engineers
• Building Service Designers
• Data Systems Planners and Managers
• Other electrical personnel involved in the maintenance industrial, commericial and institutional power systems.

Course Outline:

9:00AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Randy Hurst, President, Canadian Electricity Forum

UPS TUTORIAL
Presenter: Brad Gibson, P.Eng., Current Thinking Inc./ The E.A. Group

9:05AM
UPS Success
• Uninterruptible Power Supply does not mean Forever
• “Back-up”, “Protection”, “Reliability”: What is your UPS for?
• The Myth of the 9s
 - Start thinking about zeroes instead of nines
• What does a UPS cost? The engineering economics of back-up protection.
• Scalable strategies for UPS usage in an organization

10:30AM – Coffee Break

10:45AM
UPS System Design
• Redundancy is good, and that bodes well again, once more
- The economics of redundancy
- Class systems for rating your facility
- Your facility and your process: Are you in the right place?
- Load sharing increases lifespan
• How many minutes? Why you probably have too many batteries
- Strategy and tactics of battery use
- Generator starting and ignition back-ups
- The real cost of all those batteries
• Which is more important? Your generator or your UPS?
- The generator starting thing, another look
- Continuous power requires a system; the ‘S’ in UPS does not stand for “System”
- The new realities of electrical distribution
• Single points of failure: Take a second look
- Battery strings
- Paralleling cabinets vs. static switching
- What are acceptable risks?
- Overlooked control and distribution failures
• Alternatives to the Static UPS
- Round and round: Rotary topologies
- Storage UPS
- Fuel cell UPS
- DC bus continuous power

12:00PM – Luncheon

1:15PM
UPS Specification
• How big? Thinking about loading for now and tomorrow
- The watts per square foot nightmare
• Isolation, By-pass, Load type and Co-ordination
• When too much is less: UPS load factor and energy consumption
• Harmonic distortion
• Where can you make compromises?

3:15PM – Refreshment Break

3:30PM
UPS Maintenance and Use
• A long life through stealthy living
• It’s the batteries stupid…
• Why your UPS always fails at 2:00 AM
• Monitoring and Maintenance
• Predictive is the new Power Quality
• Testing: If you don’t test, start looking for work now.
- Funny (true) stories about testing
- What constitutes real testing
- Demonstrable testing instills system confidence
- Why even great testing doesn’t always solve system failures

4:30PM – Wrap-up

Day 2 :

8:30AM
UNDERSTANDING UPS SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS
Joe Oreskovic, Sales Engineering Manager,
Eaton Power Quality Ltd.
• Applying the components in different UPS Topologies
- Off-line, Standby
- On-line, Double conversion, with Static Bypass
- Line-interactive, with Voltage regulating transformers
- Ferro-resonant, transformer-based solutions
- Static, Kinetic (Motor Generator Sets)
• Increasing UPS Reliability
- Thermal Management within the UPS
- Managing the Batteries and optimizing costs
- The role of the Bypass for emergency and maintenance
- How to add redundancy within the UPS system (switched, N+1, 2N, etc.)

10:30AM – Coffee Break

10:45AM
ELIMINATING SINGLE POINTS OF FAILURE IN UPS
APPLICATIONS
Patrick Gannon, GE Digital Energy
Topics:
- Designing Parallel UPS Systems
- Decentralized Bypass versus Centralized Static Bypass Systems
- Decentralized Control versus Centralized Control Logic
- How to Perform Reliability Calculations
- Redundant Architecture
- Paralleling for redundancy verses paralleling for capacity
- N+1 / N+N / S+S Configurations

CASE STUDY:
How MFS Engineering Designed, Installed and Implemented a Redundant
UPS System Upgrade

12:00PM – Luncheon

1:00PM
Standby Generation Tutorial
Mark Lenarcic, Harper Detroit Diesel Limited
Electricity is an essential part of industrial, commercial and institutional facilities. When utility is temporarily unavailable, standby power generating systems are designed to offer quality, dependable electricity at a moment’s notice.

The interface between the on-site generator set and the utility is crucial to ensure minimal interruption from utility failures. Power generation transfer switches are designed to continually monitor the UPS system for load, start generator set, and transfer the load automatically. This presentation will discuss the interaction of Standby Generating Sets and UPS Systems, Transfer Switches, Battery Systems, and Maintenance Procedures to make certain that when essential standby power generation is required, it is available on demand.

The complete Standby Generation system is only as good as its weakest link. Learn about which of these systems and their components is the most vulnerable link and why. The various options available today for fuel and fuel storage will also be discussed. In addition, delegates will be shown how to properly size and specify standby generation sets and the options available, according to application.

2:30PM – Refreshment Break

2:45PM
UPS Battery Sizing, Selection, and Maintenance
Brian Leach, C&D Battery
The basic component that differentiates a UPS system from a power conditioner is the battery. If the batteries fail before the backup generators come on line, the critical power goes down. Improperly installed, poorly maintained, and inadequately tested batteries are common occurrences. Only the fact that the backup generators are highly reliable and come on line in a few seconds prevents many UPS battery banks from failing long before their rated design life. Maintenance costs and maintenance access generally are the greatest contributing factors to poorly maintained battery systems.
The purpose of this presentation is to provide information critical to the design, implementation , purchasing and maintenance of industrial stationary batteries for use in a UPS application. We will look at all aspects of system design and how it impacts the system performance and how it influences the workplace environment.

Subjects covered:
1. Introduction to Batteries
- Primary Batteries
- Secondary Batteries
2. Lead Acid Batteries
- Chemistry
- Different types
- Capacity Factors
- S-Curves
- Battery Safety and Maintenance
- Float and Equalize Voltages
- Load Testing
3. Nickel Cadmium Batteries
- Chemistry
- Battery Types
- Capacity Factors
- Battery Safety and Maintenance
- Float and Equalize Voltages
- Load Testing
4. Correctly Sizing batteries for a UPS application
5. Options (Selecting the battery technology best suited to the application).
6. Providing for a proper installation and maintenance program to insure peak
performance and long life.
7. Battery Maintenance
- Battery Testing
- Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Annual Battery Inspection
- Maintenance Procedures
- Remote Battery Monitoring Systems
- Maintaining Flooded Lead-Acid Cells
- Dealing With Excessive Gassing, Mossing, Sediment, Vibration, Hydration, Frozen Electrolyte.

4:30PM – Wrap-up

GENERAL INFORMATION

When and Where
The Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Systems Electrical Taining forum will be held as follows:

Vancouver, BC - February 21-22, 2005
Executive Airport Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre
7311 Westminster Hwy., Richmond
Tel: 604-278-5555

Edmonton, AB - February 23-24, 2005
The Coast Terrace Inn
4440 Gateway Blvd.
Tel: 780-437-6010

Toronto, ON - February 28- Mar 1, 2005
Park Plaza Hotel
33 Carlson Court
[near the airport]
Tel: 416-675-1234

A special bedroom rate (non-commissionable) has been arranged with these hotels. To receive this rate, inform the hotel that you are a delegate with the Canadian Electricity Forum when making your reservation.