Whether you are new to the industry or are well seasoned and want to review some of the basic information that you learned in the past, these courses and lessons will clearly outline what you are looking for. “Power Systems Electric” is On-Line training that bridges the gaps between textbook theories and practical power systems experience. As a retired electrical engineer who has gone through the experience of developing a career in electrical power systems, I know how frustrating it can be to try and find the answers, so I put together these courses that I feel would have been a major help to me in my development. I have also taken suggestions from students of what they would like to see in addition to these courses which I have given live in person.

Basic Electrical Learning

For those new to the industry, there is a beginner’s group of courses that cover the “Fundamentals of Electricity ” including DC and AC Circuit Analysis. These lessons examine such basics as Ohm’s Law, Series, and Parallel Circuits. The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current, voltage, and impedance, “Ohm’s Law”, and its relevance to Series and Parallel Circuits. Subsequently, this will lead to the development of Kirchhoff’s Laws as they help to further analyze Network Analysis & Metering Circuits.

Conductors and Insulators are investigated along with their connected components, Capacitors, Inductors, and how they are influenced by Electromagnetism.

Alternating Current (AC – an electric current that periodically reverses direction) is the form in which electric power is delivered to businesses and residences, and it is the form of electrical energy that consumers typically use when they plug kitchen appliances, televisions, fans, and electric lamps into a wall socket.

The abbreviations AC and DC are often used to mean simply alternating and direct, as they are applied to current or voltage.

These AC courses deal specifically with sinusoidal waveforms and will provide the student with the basic understanding of working with circuits involving Alternating Current, which includes sinusoidal waveforms, vectors & phasors, reactance & impedance of R,L,C circuits, as they relate to the basic laws and theorems of electricity. This includes working with AC Power, Power Factor, Resonance, Complex Numbers, Reactance, and Impedance

Advanced Electrical Learning

These Courses involve subjects such as “Short Circuit Analysis for HV Three-Phase Systems ” which introduces the student to the basic concepts of fault studies on a high voltage three-phase system. System modeling is then used in order to aid in this process, with the ability to move between asymmetrical and symmetrical systems. With hey Searle and extensive study of “Per Phase” & “Per Unit” methodologies system faults are analyzed with the use of symmetrical components.

“A Per-Unit System ” is the expression of system quantities as fractions of a defined base unit quantity. Calculations are simplified because quantities expressed as per unit do not change when they are referred from one side of a transformer to the other.

In these courses, you will learn exactly what Per Unit Analysis is, the main advantages of using it, how manufacturers of equipment use and rate their products, and the technique of converting to and from the Per Unit system.

Several examples of working with Per Unit are demonstrated in this crisp clear presentation. When you finish you will have a though understanding of this subject.

It is important for all power engineers and technicians to be familiar with the concept of Per Unit as it is being used and referred to every day in power flow, short circuit evaluation, and motor starting studies.

The method of “Symmetrical Components ” is used to simplify asymmetrical three-phase voltages and current analysis by converting the unbalanced system into two sets of balanced phasors and a set of single-phase phasors, or symmetrical components. These sets of phasors are called the positive, negative, and zero sequence components.

An understanding of this method is essential for the understanding of fault analysis and modern-day protection schemes. These courses will provide you with the knowledge to comprehend the concept and how it is applied.

Supplemental Electrical Lessons

In all power electrical analyses, the student will encounter special Trigonometric and Mathematical identities and equations. This site contains special supplemental lessons that zero in on those identities and equations. For example, there are lessons that take you from the “Fundamentals of Trigonometry ” to the more sophisticated requirements in electrical engineering. As you work and study in electrical engineering you are going to run into proofs and equations that are based on trigonometry. A good example of this is when studying AC current, voltage, and impedance calculations, phasors or vectors are used and combined mathematically. Further adventures into complex power will also require a knowledge of trig functions and identities. As a student of this course, you will be introduced to these or at least re-introduced to these that may have been long since forgotten.
In mathematics, “The Derivative of a Function ” of a real variable measures the sensitivity to change of the function value (output value) with respect to a change in its argument (input value). Derivatives are a fundamental tool of calculus. For example, the derivative of the position of a moving object with respect to time is the object’s velocity: this measures how quickly the position of the object changes when time advances.

Specialized Electrical Lessons

Specialized lessons include the “Protection & Control(P & C)” principles of high voltage stations. HV Bus Differential Protection is studied along with restrictions due to CT saturation & mismatch and its solution, “Restraint Differential Protection”.

High Voltage Circuit Breakers are examined as to the various Types (Oil, Vacuum, Air Blast, SF6), their Controls as well as the introduction of potential transformers & current transformers, and their use in conjunction with the relevant instruments such as ammeters, voltmeters, watt meters, and energy meters.

Other lessons include the study of “Transformers ” including core construction along with losses, cooling, and mitigation techniques. Three-phase transformer configurations are studied along with harmonic distortion, CT saturation, and on-load tap-changer problems and how these problems are dealt with. Over-current and restraint differential transformer protection is developed along with a look at some examples of ” Old School relays” as well as modern IDE (intelligent Electrical Devices) relays.

Transformer Connections: (Y – Y; Delta – Delta; Y – Delta; Delta – Y & Y – Zag Zig) are examined along with Transformer Clock System Vector Nomenclature.

Lastly, there is a special section dedicated to “Single and Three-Phase Metering “, including old analog and new digital kilowatt-hour meters.

Conclusion

Regardless of whether or not you are new to the industrial power system, you’ll find what you’re looking for on this site in the way of training. In order to review or select any of these courses, left-click on any of the blue highlighted hyperlinked words of this posting or on “14 Courses Available” from the top menu of the landing page. All of the courses have a free introduction

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August 22, 2024

Blog #23 - The Ideal Transformer

August 22, 2024/ Graham VanBrunt

If we wind 2 coils on a steel core we can cause almost all of the flux to link both coils and we can further hypostasise the case in which 100% of the flux is linked. In this ideal case it is call an“ideal transformer”. Now let's input a sinusoidal AC voltage on the red coil on the left. This is known as the primary winding. This AC voltage input will cause a small current to flow in the primary coil. The amount of current flowing is limited by the reactance of the primary coil. In an ideal transformer this reactance is 100% inductance so the current will lag the voltage by 90 degrees. This current is known as the magnetization current. Remember that any time a current flows, it will produce a magnetic flux proportional to it which means it too is sinusoidal and in phase with the current...and since we are dealing with an ideal transformer all of that flux flows in the iron and the links both coils. Considering the primary coil we will measure a voltage drop V1 across its terminals and it will be equal to the applied input voltage Vac because of the direct connection in coil 1 the flux produced by the generator is related to the voltage V1 by Faraday’s law which involves the changing flux times the number of turns in the primary coil…in coil 2, the secondary coil, the voltage produced by that same flux (mutual inductance ) is also given by Faraday’s law…. which involves the same changing flux times the number of turns in the secondary coil…That voltage is either either larger or smaller than V1 depending on N1 & N2 but is in phase with the applied voltage Vac.

Mathematically we can re-write the two Faraday’s law equations for both the primary and secondary coils keeping only the associated voltages and coil turns number on the right hand side of the equations. As you can see both right hand sides are equal to the same changing flux -d(phi)/dt...there for we can write -d(phi)/dt is equal to V1/N1 is equal to V2/N2 which means V1/N1 is equal to V2/N2 and V1/V2 is equal to N1/N2. These two ratios V1/V2 and N1/N2 are known as the "Turns Ration" of the transformer and sometimes designated with the letter "a".

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