Electrical Power Engineering

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About Course

SETA Professional Electrical engineers  have a combined 490 years experience working in the electrical power utility sector, mining, telecommunications, textiles, leather, food and beverages and agricultural industries. Eng Mukono has over 30 years as an Instrumentation Systems Engineer, DC and AC Drives Design Engineer, Plant Commissioning Engineer, Maintenance Engineer and Solar Systems Professional Director.

This module has been written to teach engineers and technicians the basics of electrical power engineering. It will also act as a useful revision tool for electrical graduate engineers or those engineers and technicians who are new to the industry.

The course uses detailed illustrations & simple explanations to convey the topics involved.

More advanced modules will be updated progressively in future to broaden these basic engineering ideas further and use them to show how an electrical power utility systems are designed, constructed, tested and operated.

Who this course is for:

  • people with a desire for careers in electrical engineering
  • graduate electrical engineers
  • school pupils and school leavers who want to enter the electrical engineering industry as a life time career

Description

This course is designed to introduce a technician to the principles of electricity. If you are new to the field or have the experience, take this class to refresh your memory in the following areas:

  • How to work safely with electricity.
  • What electricity is, how electricity works.
  • What components make up an electrical circuit.
  • How circuits operate and why they operate that way.
  • What has to happen for an electrical component to operate properly.

REQUIREMENTS

There are no stringent requirements to take this course except to be willing to learn about electricity, how it works and how to control it to make it work for us. However, the knowledge gained here is ideal for passing City & Guilds Level 1 examinations as well as Hexco National Certificate (NC).

Electricity is hard to understand because you cannot see it; you cannot smell it, and touching it is one thing you don’t want to do. You should take this course so that I can help you understand how electricity works, where electricity comes from, how it gets to you, and how we can make electricity work for us. Technicians who take this class may learn that “electricity is very lazy. We need to make it work for us and work properly.” Take class to understand the troubleshooting and repairing of electrical components, appliances and systems in an HVAC unit.

Working with electricity is much more than just knowing how to install or repair electrical equipment or HVAC electrical components. By taking the Basic Electricity course, you will be equipped with the proper techniques and safety skills to lead you to your professional success.

SETA INSTITUTE has long serving experienced vocational-technical skills instructors for over sixteen years. The Department is lead by Eng Gideon Moyo. In 1989, Gideon joined TelOne as a Telecommunication Engineer. He later moved to NetOne where he got involved in the design and deployment of many of the TelOne base stations all over Zimbabwe. Through out his career, he has developed a natural liking for transferring skills and competencies and has acquired the necessary instructional skills in maintaining and servicing various types of air conditioning systems, air handlers, chillers, hydraulics/pneumatics systems, motors, pumps, boilers, galley and laundry equipment.  He is strongly passionate about sharing and passing his knowledge to others and teaching HVAC systems, Refrigeration, Electrical Motors, Schematics, Basic Electricity, and Heat Pumps. He has also taught these courses in Kenya, Seychelles, South Africa and Zimbabwe. He has taught over 20,000 students during his teaching career. He and his team are looking forward to passing on this knowledge to new engineers, technicians and maintenance personnel who wish to enroll and take these lessons.

Who this course is for:

  • Technicians, Electrical Professionals, HVAC Technicians, Maintenance Professionals
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What Will You Learn?

  • Get to know the structure of the basic electric power system
  • Learn how to draw single line diagram of any power system
  • Review of basic electrical concepts used day to day
  • Different types of electricity within the Electric power systems
  • Understand power factor correction
  • Analyze single phase and three phase power systems
  • Difference between delta and star connections in three phase power supply and load
  • Learn power calculations in single and three phase systems
  • Power factor correction in three phase systems
  • Generators as used within power systems
  • Salient pole vs. cylindrical rotor generators
  • Generator operation and its equivalent model in power system
  • Learn how to assess the performance parameters of synchronous generators
  • Learn generator characteristics and its phasor diagram
  • Learn the operation and construction of transformers in power systems
  • Learn how to model a transformer in power systems
  • Learn how to measure the transformer parameters
  • Learn three phase transformer connections and their applications
  • Understand transmission lines in power systems
  • Learn the modelling and performance of transmission lines
  • Complete analysis of short, medium, and long line models
  • Understand surge impedance loading (SIL) and its importance
  • Learn per-unit system and its use in analyzing power systems
  • Change of Base in per unit system
  • Concept and importance of power flow analysis
  • Formation of bus admittance matrix and its importance in load flow analysis
  • Understand types of bus-bars in power system
  • Learn how to obtain load flow equations
  • Realize approximate method in power flow analysis
  • Learn Gauss-Seidal method in power flow analysis
  • Learn DC power flow method in power flow analysis
  • Learn how to evaluate the losses and power flow in transmission lines
  • Complete analysis of power system faults
  • Realize definition, causes, and consequences of electric faults
  • Analyze the symmetrical faults using Thevenin method
  • Analyze the symmetrical faults using bus impedance matrix
  • Learn how to construct bus impedance matrix
  • Realize the concept and formulation of symmetrical components method
  • Learn how to get the sequence networks for generators, transformers, and transmission lines
  • Analysis of (L-G), (L-L), and (L-L-G) faults

Course Content

Introduction to Electrical Knowledge
Basic Preview of the course Distribution and consumption of electric power Single line diagram (SLD) of Electric Power Systems

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