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LEARN ONLINE OR CLASSROOM QUANTITY SURVEY | LAND SURVEY (USING AUTOLEVEL & TOTAL STATION )SURVEYING & LEVELING |  VALUATION | ESTIMATION | BBS | BILLING ENG | TENDERING | CONTRACTS MGMT | PROJECTS MGMT

​BHADANIS INSTITUTE'S TRAINING APPROVED BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 

Objective

The Program has been designed to help the participants learn the basics of Distribution Systems, Substation Layouts, Design, Erection and Commissioning, through lectures, experiments and Lab sessions. Financial and Economic aspects shall also be covered.

Program Profile

• Module 1: (1 Week)
Introduction to Power Plants & Power Scenario: Power scenario and
growth of power industry in India, Organisation / Power Sector set up inIndia, Distribution reform in India, Transmission and Distribution of Electricity
in India, Role of Private Participants in Transmission and Distribution, Introduction
to Thermal Power Plant, Introduction to Hydro Power Station, Introduction
to Gas Power Plant, Introduction to Nuclear Power Plant, Non - Conventional
energy sources overview.

• Module 2: (1 Week)
Fundamentals of Electricity, Power Quality & Harmonics: Active and
Reactive Power, fundamentals of load compensation, Balanced System and
Unbalanced Fundamentals of load compensation, practical aspects of
compensator used as voltage regulator, Conventional methods to regulate
voltage, dynamic voltage restorer: principal for operation, mathematical
description, Transient operation of DVR, realization of DVR voltage using
voltage source inverter, maximum compensation capacity of the DVR.

• Module 3: (1 Week)
Planning & Engineering Design of Distribution Substation: Load forecasting,
Philosophy of distribution planning, Acquaintance with software for distribution
planning and optimization, Distribution substation types, layouts, bus bar
arrangements, Civil engineering requirements, Bay design, Selection of
Distribution substation Transformers, circuit breakers, etc, General rules
for Electrical Installation design: Rules and statutory regulations, Installed
power loads – Characteristics, Power loading of an installation, Procedure
for the establishment of a new substation- Preliminary investigation, Project
studies, Implementation and Commissioning, Distribution analysis , design
and equipment sizing, Single feed, dual feed and dual transformer substations,
Design of lighting for Sub Stations, SWYD, Control room & Switchgear Rooms,
Design and Engineering of Gas Insulated Substation, Overview of Geographical
information systems and Remote Sensing,Global positioning system & applications
and Surveying techniques.

• Module 4: (1 Week)
Erection& Commissioning of Distribution Sub-Stations:Erection of
Distribution Transformers/ Sub-stations/ Earthing stations/ GIS, Code of
Practice of sub-station operators, Instrument Transformers/ CTs and PTs,
Technical Visit to 220 /66/33 kV Sub-Station.

• Module 5: (1 Week)
HT & LT Switchgears, & Batteries: Types of switchgears and Selection
of switchgear, Features of circuit breaker, types of quenching medium used
in circuit breakers, Air Circuit Breaker, Vacuum Circuit Breaker & SF6 Circuit
Breaker, MCB, MCCB, ACDB, PDB Soft Starters, DOL Starters , VFD & VVFD
drives starters, Types of Batteries, Selection and sizing, sizing of Battery
Chargers for Sub Stations, UPS system, sizing of UPS Batteries Selection,
Sizing and performance of circuit breakers, Testing of circuit breakers,
Maintenance of Switchgear.
Technical Visit to Switchgear factory.

• Module 6: (1 Week)
Cables & Metering: Types of metering, viz. DT metering, feeder metering
and consumer metering: setting and operation, testing and sealing, Design
and construction of distribution meters, Indian electricity rules of metering;
detection of theft/ tempering, unauthorized loads, investigation, legal aspects,
anti-theft measures and case studies, Familiarity with hardware (CMRI)
and software for meter data download, analysis and detection of meter
tampering, Tariff: Types, method of fixing, penalty clauses, etc, Power Cable
Design, Construction, Testing, Operation & Maintenance, LT and HT Cable
jointing, Termination and Accessories, Cable fault detection and repair, Demo
on Power cable jointing- End joint & Straight through joint.

• Module 7: (1 Week)
Distribution Lines & PLC: Survey, Route alignment, GPS application, Line
Components, Bill of Quantities, Types of Poles, foundation, Design and
selection aspects of tower/ pole structures, conductors insulators and other
hardwares, Conductors, Insulators, Bushings, Erection of Distribution structures,
Line Stringing, Sagging, Line construction, Line Reconfiguration, Compact
Lines, Aerial Bunched Cable systems, PLC elements, Memory – RAM, ROM,
EPROM, I/O Point address, Digital, Analog input output signals, A/D, D/A
conversion protection against signal noise, Programming of PLCs, Digging
holes and pole erection, Fixing of different fittings on poles such as cross
arms, insulators, stay wires etc Stringing and sagging overhead line conductors,
Jointing overhead line conductors, Installation of overhead service lines.

• Module 8: (1 Week)
Protective Relays, Grounding & IE Safety Regulations: Relays – Types,
construction, characteristics and location in substation, IR rules, safety
Regulations, Design of Earthing MAT, Fire Safety and demo

• Module 9: (1 week)
Distribution System Protection: Steady State Fault Analysis (SSFA) &
Tutorial on Fault Analysis, Voltage calculation at fault locations, Overvoltage
protection, Principles of lightning protection, Design of the electrical installation
protection system, Fault interrupting devices and non-fault interrupting
devices.

• Module 10: (1 week)
Distribution Automation, Distributed Generation & Integration : Customer
Site Automation functions: Load control, Remote meter reading, Time-ofuse
rates, Feeder reconfiguration & Transformer balancing, oltage/VAR control
using: Capacitors, Regulators, and LTC, Distribution system monitoring,
Digital protection of substations and feeders, SCADA and Equipment for
Feeder Automation & Customer Automation, Distributed Generation (DG) -
Overview and technology trends; DG planning, cost implications of power
quality, Cost of energy and net present value calculations and implications
on power converter design, Import/export metering, net metering, generation
based incentives, accelerated depreciation, Grid connected RES systems &
Power quality issues, Power quality implication, acceptable ranges of voltage
and frequency, flicker, reactive power compensation, and active filtering
and low voltage ride through requirements, Familiarisation with distribution
software packages and latest software tools and use thereof for billing and
revenue realisation, GIS mapping and consumer indexing.

• Module 11: ( 1 week)
Simulator Training at PSTI, Bengaluru, RT lab/ HV lab/ DTS lab

• Module 12: ( 1 week)
Rural Electrification & Smart Grids: Outsourcing of distribution activities,
appointment of franchisees and self load management by villagers and Gram
Panchayats, Maintenance of complaint centres and fault removal etc. by
village Panchayatsetc, Separation of rural and urban supply system, Rajiv
Gandhi GrameenVidyutikaranYojana, Technical Visit to Distribution Substation/
LDC, Outsourcing of distribution activities, appointment of franchisees and
self load management by villagers and Gram Panchayats, Maintenance of
complaint centres and fault removal etc. by village Panchayats etc., Smart
Grid – Basic overview – Evaluation of Smart Grid road map in India, ongoing
Smart Grid activities in India, Smart Grid – Basic overview – Evaluation
of Smart Grid road map in India, on-going Smart Grid activities in India,
Smart Grid Distribution network and initiative,Policy and Regulation – Requirement
of Smart Grid.