TRAININGS

We offer our clients a continuing education program for their electrical technical personnel, whether they are electrical engineers or other related engineering fields, operation, control and maintenance technical personnel, as well as supervisors, managers, directors and executives of technical areas who wish to acquire and/or expand their knowledge in the area of engineering and power systems protection systems applications to generation, industrial, distribution and transmission systems.
 
Resonancia Ingenieria y Consultoria offers various training formats including: instructive talks, training seminars and continuing education courses
Please find below a list of topics that can be presented:

TALKS/SEMINARS  

  • Fundamentals of Electrical Protection in Power Systems
  • Instrument Transformers: importance and challenges for protections
  • Electromechanical vs. microprocessors Relays: advantages and disadvantages
    • Reliability of protection based on the design and topology of the system
    • Reliability of electrical protection equipment based on operation of the system
    • Considerations in the analysis of electrical faults in the power system
  • Introduction to differential protection: applications and challenges
  • Introduction to Overcurrent protections: applications, challenges and limitations
  • Introduction to impedance-based protections: applications, challenges and limitations
  • Permissive over-(POTT) and under-(PUTT) reaching schemes in transmission lines
  • Directional Comparison Blocking (DCB) and unblocking (DCUB) schemes in transmission lines
  • Introduction to breaker failure protections: applications, challenges and limitations
  • Introduction to synchronization, automatic reclosing and energization of post-fault systems
  • Design considerations, technical applications and studies related to:
    • Protections of transmission lines
    • Protections in distribution systems
    • Bus protections
    • Transformer protections
    • Motor protections
    • Protections of synchronous generators
    • Protections in power generation plants
  • Coordination of electrical protections in power systems
  • Coordination of protection elements with thermal withstand (Damage) limits curves of electrical equipment
  • Root-cause analysis in electrical failures focused on the operation of the protections
  • Arc Flash studies: observations with respect to NFPA 70E vs. IEEE 1584
  • Impact of the system topology on the operation of the protection and the arc flash
  • Maintenance practices to increase the reliability of the protection and control equipment
  • Modeling and analysis of power systems applied to electrical protections, importance, challenges and their impact on reliability
  • IEEE standards technical working groups focused on Protection Systems (PSRC)

CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES 

  • Fundamentals of (Introduction) electrical protections in power systems
  • Fundamentals of application of electrical protections in power systems
  • Electrical protections and coordination in transmission lines
  • Electrical protections and coordination in distribution systems
  • Bus Protection, applications and design considerations
  • Transformer Protection analysis and coordination
  • Motor Protection applications and coordination
  • Power Plant and Generator Electrical Protections and coordination
  • Coordination of electrical protections in power systems

COMING SOON

Diploma in Electrical Protections in Power Systems