Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. Excitation systems directly affect power system stability where generators are large, connected with long lines, at sensitive voltage locations, or in systems with local or intertie oscillations. Excitation system reliability and availability can be a matter of skilled routine maintenance activity and proficient troubleshooting capability. Proficient troubleshooting is greatly aided by a solid operational understanding of the excitation system and its voltage regulator. This course is designed to cover the excitation system design, commissioning, operation, maintenance, performance analysis, testing, tuning, repair and troubleshooting. The course will address the adjustment of excitation systems for high-initial response excitation using a PID controller.The course will provide participants with the necessary knowledge to maintain, repair and calibrate an excitation system together with the automatic voltage regulator (AVR). This includes using effective routine maintenance practices, knowing what checks may be performed on-line and how to perform these checks without causing an equipment shutdown, increasing the likelihood of accurate problem diagnosis by thoroughly understanding how the equipment operates, increasing the likelihood of accurate problem diagnosis by understanding any given circuits impact upon operations; ie., quickly linking the symptom(s) to the faulty circuit, verifying suspected faulty circuit by analyzing voltage levels and/or signal traces, and understanding the necessary calibrations, after the faulty part has been replaced, including how the calibrations are performed.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30