SYLLABUS FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CALCULATIONS SEMINAR

Day 1 (Morning)
Day 1 (Afternoon)

Day 2 (Morning)
Day 2 (Afternoon)

Day 3

Day 4 (Morning)
Day 4 (Afternoon)

How to Perform Electrical Studies (day 1 morning)

1. Conversions Ohmic  MVA Delta/Wye Transformation

2. Conductor Parameters Buses Insulated Cable Overhead Cable

3. Voltage Studies Bus Voltage Drop Line Voltage Drop Collapsing Delta Capacitive Voltage Rise

4. Power Transfer
5. Transmission System Considerations
6. Paralleling Buses
7. Ohmic Short Circuit Calculations

Applying the Per Unit System (day 1 afternoon)

1. Conversions

2. Short Circuit Studies Delta/Delta Short Circuit Wye/Delta Short Circuit Delta/Wye Short Circuit

3. Phase to Phase Faults
4. Sequence Impedances
5. Phase to Ground Faults
6. Z0/Z1 Ratio
7. Generator Short Circuit
8. Motor Short Circuit Contribution

Auxiliary System Protection (day 2 morning)

1. Time Overcurrent Coordination
2. Asymmetrical Current
3. Overcurrent Curves
4. Overcurrent Elements
5. Induced Currents
6. Motor Overcurrent
7. MCC Source Feeder Overcurrent
8. Bus-Tie Overcurrent
9. Transformer Secondary Side Overcurrent
10. Transformer Primary Side Overcurrent
11. Transformer Differential
12. Residual Ground Overcurrent
13. Residual Voltage Transfer Schemes

High Impedance Grounding (day 2 afternoon)

1. Applications
2. Advantages
3. Induced Voltages
4. Transformer Coupling
5. Transient Mitigation
6. Neutral Grounding Transformers
7.  I²T Calculations
8. Wye Grounded/Broken Delta Schemes
9. Mitigating Neutral Instability or 3-Phase Ferro Resonance
10. One Transformer Schemes
11. Two Transformer Schemes

Generator Protection (day 3)

1. Generator Data
2. GSU Transformer Data
3. Transmission System Data
4. Protective Relay Ohms
5. Critical Clearing Times
6. Infeed Ohms
7. Proposed Zone 1 Scheme
8. Switchyard Configurations
9. Backup Impedance (21)
10. Volts/Hz (24)
11. Sync Check (25)
12. Reverse Power (32)
13. Loss of Field (40)
14. Negative Phase Sequence (46)
15. Stator Ground (64)
16. Out of Step (78)
17. Over/Under Frequency (81)
18. NERC Boundaries
19. Tripping Philosophy
20. Tripping Redundancy
21. Setting Documentation

Apparatus Supporting Calculations (day 4 morning)

1. Apparatus Life Estimation 2. Buses Bus Bar Forces

3. Cable Withstand Seconds Fusion Seconds Line Loss

4. Circuit Breakers Over-voltage Testing Short Circuit Duty

5. Generators Over-Voltage Testing Generator Temperature X/R Ratio

Apparatus Supporting Calculations (day 4 afternoon)

5. Metering Three Element Two Element Demand KWH/Pulse Watts

6. Motors Over-voltage Testing Locked Rotor Amps X/R Ratio Voltage Drop Volts/Hz

7. Transformers Current Transformer Burden Losses Tap Optimization X/R Ratio