A Highly Interactive Training Course On

Power Distribution Equipment

Optimisation of Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems,
Transformers and Circuit Breakers in a Modern Power Distribution System

Power Distribution Equipment
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

14-18 Apr 2025
Dubai
$5,950
01-05 Dec 2025
Dubai
$5,950
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course

Training Overview

Training Overview

The Power Distribution Equipment training course offered by Coventry Academy focuses on the critical aspects of reliable, safe, and efficient electrical installations. This comprehensive course covers the construction, operation, and maintenance of essential equipment including transformers, circuit breakers, ring main units, switches, and protection devices. Emphasis is placed on ensuring safe operations facilitated by modern relays and sophisticated protection systems.

Power distribution methods, whether overhead or underground, are explored, highlighting the importance of auxiliary power through uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and batteries. Protection systems play a crucial role in preventing faults from damaging electrical infrastructure and enabling the isolation of faulted sections to maintain uninterrupted supply across the system. The evolving landscape of utilities and industrial operations underscores the integration of protection and control technologies.

Key features of the Coventry Academy training course include:

  • Detailed study of transformer construction and operations
  • Characteristics and functions of circuit breakers
  • Importance and roles of UPS systems and batteries in maintaining power reliability
  • Types and strategies of equipment maintenance
  • Functionalities and applications of protection relays in ensuring system reliability and safety

What are the goals?

By the end of this Coventry Academy training course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the major power distribution equipment
  • Determine the various types maintenance strategies
  • Explain the different types of circuit breakers
  • Analyse the characteristics of oil immersed transformers
  • Design a simple electrical power distribution incorporating the main power distribution equipment

Who is this Training Course for?

The training course will benefit the engineers, technicians and supervisors on the operations, functions of major renewable energy integration components. This Coventry Academy course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Electrical engineers
  • Electrical supervisors
  • Power engineers
  • Managers in-charge of electrical installations
  • Project engineers

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This Coventry Academy training course will utilise a variety of proven adult training techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes presentation and discussion of latest videos and technologies on smart grids and renewable energy.

Questions are encouraged throughout, particularly at the daily wrap up sessions. This provides opportunities for participants to discuss with the Presenter specific issues and, if possible, find appropriate solutions. Specific goals of each participant will be discussed to ensure that their needs are fulfilled whenever practicable.

The Course Content

Day One: Distribution Power Transformers Types, Characteristics, Operations and Protection
  • Types and design of power transformers
  • Oil immersed transformers
  • Major components of a power transformer
  • Vector groups for transformers
  • Cooling systems for transformers
  • Fault level and impedance percentage of a transformer
Day Two: Construction and Characteristics Switches and Circuit Breakers
  • Construction and operation of load break switch, earth switches and isolators
  • Construction and operation of molded case circuit breaker
  • Construction and operations of air circuit breaker
  • The electronic trip of an air circuit breaker
  • The construction and operation of vacuum circuit breaker
  • Characteristics of vacuum circuit breaker
Day Three: SF6 and High Voltage Circuit Breakers
  • SF6 arc quenching characteristics
  • SF6 circuit breaker operations and characteristics
  • Live tank high voltage circuit breaker
  • Dead tank high voltage circuit breaker
  • Safety of SF6 circuit breakers
  • New alternative grid green gas
Day Four: Auxiliary Power by Means of Batteries and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
  • Critical loads and distribution equipment categories
  • Types of  online and offline UPS design
  • Components functionalities of a UPS
  • Double conversion UPS
  • Redundancy and parallel operation of UPS
  • UPS operational modes
Day Five: Maintenance and Safety of Power Distribution Equipment
  • Functionalities of numerical relays
  • Maintenance strategies
  • Partial discharge and its effects
  • Merits of thermography
  • Power quality measurement instruments
  • Wrap up session and Q&A session