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ELECTRICAL POWER ENGINEER: CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Circuit Breakers for Engineers (5 Days)

Whether you simply want to remain at the forefront of your career in Electric Power Technology or need to continue your education to maintain your status as a licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), EITI’s continuing education programs can help you succeed in your career and gain a competitive edge.

Note: Also see our other Engineering Pro-D courses: Surge Arrester Application and Insulation Coordination in AC Power Systems and Understanding Current Interruption Transients: TRVs, Reignitions and Restrikes.

PROGRAM OUTLINE:

This 1-week program is designed to give professional engineers a thorough understanding of circuit breakers, from the history of circuit breaker development to application and safety concerns. Ultimately, it will help an engineer to design and specify a safer, more reliable, and cost effective system.

PRE-REQUISITE:

  • Designed for Electrical Power Engineers, Technicians or Consultants with bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience in engineering technology.

Introduction to Circuit Breakers
  • History of circuit breaker development
  • Different types of circuit breakers and their characteristics
  • Circuit breaker standards
Fundamental Considerations
  • Oscillating circuits and damping
  • Symmetrical components
  • Amplitude and first-pole-to-clear factors
  • Travelling waves
Current Interruption
  • Basic switching cases
  • Simple switching case: transformer switching
  • Current interruption theory
  • Circuit breaker requirements and type testing
Load Current Switching - Inductive
  • Shunt reactor switching: general theory
  • EHV and HV reactor switching
  • MV shunt reactor switching
  • Unloaded transformer switching
  • Applicable standards and requirements
  • Type testing
Load current switching - capacitive
  • Capacitive current switching: general theory
  • Single capacitor bank switching
  • Back-to back capacitors bank switching
  • Line switching
  • Cable switching
  • Applicable standards and requirements
  • Type testing
Terminal faults
  • Understanding transient recovery voltages (TRVs)
  • Fault currents: short-circuit, short-time, momentary, symmetrical and asymmetrical and critical
  • Testing: direct and synthetic
  • Applicable standards and requirements
  • Type testing
Short line faults
  • General theory and associated TRVs
  • Applicable standards and requirements
  • Type testing
Out of phase switching
  • General theory and associated TRVs
  • Applicable standards and requirements
  • Type testing
Rated continuous current
  • Background and temperature rise
  • Applicable standards and requirements
  • Type testing
  • Dynamic loading
Dielectric
  • Background and insulation coordination
  • Applicable standards and requirements
  • Type testing
Other requirements
  • Degree of protection
  • Mechanical endurance
  • Low and high ambient temperature environments
  • The other 10%
Circuit breaker specification, selection and commissioning


CERTIFICATION AND CREDITS

  • All students are tested in knowledge and performance, and must achieve a grade of 70%.


SCHEDULE, REGISTRATION, AND FEES

For more information, contact info@eiti.us


LOCATIONS

  • TEXAS
  • OKLAHOMA
  • BC
  • YOUR SITE (CUSTOMIZED)

INSTRUCTOR:

David Peelo, Director of Electrical Engineering Continuing Education Programs

David Peelo is a consulting electrical engineer. He graduated in electrical engineering from University College Dublin in 1965 and worked first for the ASEA Power Transmission Products Division in Ludvika, Sweden. He joined BC Hydro in 1973, where he rose to the position of specialist engineer for switchgear and switching. He became an independent consultant in 2001. In 2004 the Eindhoven University of Technology awarded him a PhD for original research on current interruption using air-break disconnect switches. He has published more than 60 papers on switching in high voltage systems and on surge arrester application. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a Distinguished Member of CIGRE and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is convener of IEC Maintenance Team 32 Inductive Load Switching and IEC Maintenance Team 42 Capacitive Current Interrupting Capability of Disconnectors and is a national representative on a number of CIGRE Working Groups and on a IEC Project Team.



 

 

For more detailed information, contact EITI.