Substation Grounding Training

Substation Grounding Training

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You can interact and ask questions. The cost of the training also includes 7 days of email mentoring with the instructor.

Substation Grounding Training - This 12-Hour live online instructor-led course will discuss how to maintain, test, and inspect a proper grounding system for high voltage transmission and distribution systems and especially the electrical power substation.

Safety remains a primary concern for substation owners, specifically in terms of protecting human life, and ensuring reliable network operation. Both electric utility and industrial substation equipment is protected by comprehensive grounding infrastructures. High voltage electrical grounding systems are subject to weathering, corrosion, damage and general wear. System integrity must be inspected and tested on a regular basis. Substation engineers must accurately assess the condition of grounding systems to ensure they are capable of dissipating additional fault current.

This substation grounding training course covers effective relaying and insulation of equipment; and also the safety of the personnel is the governing criterion through the proper design of substation grounding. This course will discuss how to maintain, test, and inspect a proper grounding system for the electrical power substation.

This substation grounding training course covers the ideas behind effective substation grounding system design and describes test methods and numerical models to characterize soil resistivity into a two layer soil model. Participants learn test methods to measure other important grounding system parameters, such as interconnected grounding impedance, neutral and over head ground wire current splits. Then, functional requirements of temporary working grounds are discussed followed by their installation configuration, maintenance and testing.

This course will provide the basic principles of grounding a power supply network to ensure safety of personnel and equipment. Understanding these principles will provide the correct tools to design a grounding system applicable to utility networks and industrial plant distribution. This course covers the basic procedures in working safely on medium and high voltage systems.

This Substation Grounding course will deal with all of these important issues.

 

After Attending, You Will Understand:

 

  • The Basics Of High Voltage Grounding
  • Electrical Bonding of High Voltage Systems
  • Proper Sizing of conductors
  • Grounding of Substations
  • High Voltage Surge protection
  • Electrical Grounding for lightning protection

 

WHO should attend

This course is designed for engineering project managers, engineers, and technicians from utilities who have built or are considering building or retrofitting substations or distribution systems with SCADA and substation integration and automation equipment.

 

  • Utility and Industrial Electrical Engineers and Engineering Technicians
  • Transmission planning engineers
  • Distribution planning engineers
  • Substation Design Engineers
  • Consulting Electrical Engineers
  • Substation network management engineers
  • Substation maintenance and construction engineers & technologists

 

Students receive

  • FREE T&D Automation And AMR/AMI Systems Handbook Vol. 2 (Value $20)
  • $100 Coupon Toward Any Future Electricity Forum Event (Restrictions Apply)
  • 1.4 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) Credits
  • FREE Electricity Today Magazine Subscription (Value $25.00)
  • Forum Presentations In Paper Format

 

 

Substation Grounding Training Course Outline

 

DAY ONE

 

OVERVIEW

  • Basics Of High-Voltage Grounding
  • Electrical Bonding of High Voltage Systems
  • Proper Sizing of Conductors
  • Grounding of Substations
  • High-Voltage Surge Protection
  • Electrical Grounding for Lightning Protection

 

SUBSTATION GROUNDING DESIGN

 

SESSION 1: DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS

  • Determination of Need of Personal Protective Grounding
  • Basic Criteria for Safe Grounding Practices
  • Electric Shock Hazard
  • Grounding Practices
  • Basic Design Options
  • Soil Resistivity
  • Ground Fault Currents
  • Fault clearing Time

 

SESSION 2: GROUNDING OPTIONS

  • Ground Cable Assemblies
  • Grounding Cable Ampacities
  • Grounding Cable Reactance
  • Parallel Grounds
  • Grounding Clamps
  • Grounding Insulated Power Cable
  • Ground Potential Rise (GPR) in Medium- and High-Voltage Systems

 

SESSION 3: GROUND GRID DESIGN FOR SUBSTATIONS

  • Determination of Maximum Available Fault Current
  • Exposure Voltage Calculations for Plants & Switchyards
  • Touch and Step Potential
  • Transferred Potential
  • Elimination of Step and Touch Potential
  • Selection of the Right Connector
  • Horizontal Grid Design IEEE STD 80
  • Introduction to 2-Layer Soil Model
  • Vertical Rods Connected by a Grid
  • Temporary Grounding


 

DAY TWO


 

SESSION 4: SWITCHYARD AND SUBSTATION PROTECTIVE GROUNDING

  • General Considerations for Placement of Protective Grounds
  • Power Circuit Breakers and Transformers
  • Disconnect Switches and Bus
  • Insulated High Voltage Cable
  • Cable Terminations
  • Midsections and Splices
  • Grounding Transformers and Phase Reactors
  • Capacitor Banks

 

SESSION 5: POWER LINE PROTECTIVE GROUNDING

  • Grounding of Metal Transmission Structures
  • Slip Joints
  • Steel Pole Structures
  • Overhead Ground Wires
  • Structure Footing Ground
  • Grounding on Wood Pole Transmission Structures
  • Transmission Line Terminal Ground Switches
  • Grounding on Distribution Lines
  • Surface Equipment and Vehicle Grounding

 

SESSION 6: TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PROTECTIVE GROUNDING IN SUBSTATIONS AND SWITCHYARDS

  • Substation Grounding System
  • Typical Shock Situations - Conditions of Danger
  • Structure Touch
  • Electric Circuit for Switch Operator Sources of Hazardous Current on De-energized Equipment
  • Grounding and Jumpering Requirements
  • IEE Std 80

 

INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL REGULATIONS

  • IEEE 80, IEEE Guide for Safety in AC Substation Grounding
  • ASTM F 855 Standard Specifications for Temporary Protective Grounds
  • IEEE 1246, IEEE Guide for Temporary Protective Grounding Systems Used in Substations
  • IEEE 1048, IEEE Guide for Protective Grounding of Power Lines

 

Review of expectations
Questions and Answers

 

COURSE TIMETABLE

Both days:
Start: 8:00 a.m.
Coffee Break: 10:00 a.m.
Lunch: 12:00 noon
Restart: 1:15 p.m.
Finish: 4:30 p.m.

 

 

Live Online Course Registration Fees & CEU Credits

The registration fee to attend this live online training course is $599 + GST/HST.

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Earn Continuing Education Unit (CEU) Credits

Successful completion of this course qualifies delegates to receive a certificate of course completion with indicated CEUs.

EIC

CEUs are granted by the Engineering Institute of Canada. One CEU is equivalent to 10 professional development hours of instruction.

This course earns 1.2 CEUs.

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We can present this Substation Grounding Training to your electrical engineering and maintenance staff, tailored to your specific equipment and requirements. We are ready to help design this program for you. Click on the link below to request a FREE quotation.

INSTRUCTOR

Pablo Diaz
Electrical Grounding Specialist, The Electricity Forum

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