Description
This two day introductory course covers the generation of electricity from first principles. Starting with Fleming’s right hand rule and progressing through to modern brushless generators. The course also includes the operation, synchronising and protection of generators. This is a classroom based course with no practical content except for the use of computerised simulators.
What you will learn
- Energy and power sources
- Electromagnetic induction
- Single phase and 3 phase generators
- Generator construction
- Brushless generators
- Output control
- Automatic voltage control
- Synchronisation
- Power management systems (PMS)
- Generator protection
- Generator operation
- Generator fault finding
- Variable speed drives and power system harmonics