Generation Course

Generation Course (GEN)

A 7-hour class explaining the construction, operation and protection of generators and solar.

• Construction of single-phase and 3-phase generator stators

• Stator eddy currents

• Stator windings

• Rewinding stators

• Stator cooling, Air water and hydrogen

• Construction of generator fields (rotors)

• Relationship between stator poles and field (rotor) poles

• Field cooling, Air and hydrogen

• Excitation Systems

  • DC generators

  • DC generators with pilot exciters

  • AC generators with rectifiers

  • Collector rings and brushes

  • Brushless excitation systems

  • Self excitation

  • Voltage regulators

  • Automatic voltage regulator (AVR)

• Prime movers

  • Steam, Thermal - Nuclear, Coal, gas, oil, biomass, garbage,

  • Simple cycle gas turbines (combustion turbines) Thermal

  • Combined cycle gas turbines (combustion turbines) Thermal

  • Reciprocating engines including locomotives’ & ocean-going ships’ diesel engines

  • Heat rate as a measure of generator efficiency in thermal plants

• Hydroelectric generation

  • Types of turbines

  • High head versus low head

  • Gates for producing power and flood gates

• Wave action generation

• Tidal generation

• Wind generation

  • Land based

  • Off shore, with footings

  • Off shore, floating (for deep water)

• Solar, Photovoltaic

  • Solar panels

  • Photovoltaic PNP transistor inverters

  • Photovoltaic NPN transistor inverters

  • Photovoltaic thyristor inverters

  • Photovoltaic Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) inverters

  • Photovoltaic Field Effect Transistor (FET) inverters

  • Photovoltaic Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) inverters

  • Harmful harmonics produced by inverters

  • Preventing harmonics

• Solar, Thermal - with fluid prime movers

• Generator protection

  • Overspeed

  • Stator overheating

  • Field (rotor) overheating

  • Stator differential

  • Sync-check

  • Reverse Power

  • Bearing pedestals, Circulating current

  • Bearing lube-oil systems

  • Backup bearing lube-oil systems

  • Turning gear

  • Thrust displacement

  • High vibration

• Synchronization criteria and procedures

  • Frequency

  • Voltage magnitudes

  • Phase rotation relationship of generator voltage and system voltage

  • Phase angle relationship of generator voltage and system voltage

  • Synchroscope including desired direction of rotation

  • Risk of catastrophic damage when contractors are allowed to work with synchroscopes

  • Manual synchronizing

  • Auto-synchronizing

• Producing megawatts without changing generator’s operating speed

  • Sine waves displacement description

  • Strobe light description

• Generation and reactive power

  • Relationship of generator megawatts and generator megavars

  • Generator governor control for megawatts

  • AGC (Automatic Generation Control) for megawatts

  • Generator excitation control for megavars

  • Relationship between shunt capacitors, shunt reactors and generator VArs

  • Generator “D” curves and relationships of generator megawatts and generator megavars

  • Inlet air temperatures on “D” curves for air cooled generators

  • Hydrogen pressure on “D” curves for hydrogen cooled generators

  • Generator positive VArs

  • Generator negative VArs

  • Generator VArs out

  • Generator VArs in

  • Generator lagging VArs

  • Generator leading VArs

  • Assigning generator megawatts based on economics and generator megavars based on location

Price
$7,920 for the first 24 and $330 for each additional person, plus instructor expenses from Portland, Oregon and shipping of materials.

Prerequisites
A solid understanding of AC voltage and AC current, DC voltage and DC current, voltage sine waves and current sine waves, power and energy.

Who Should Attend?

• Generation control center operators (Generation dispatchers)

• IT staff supporting generation control centers

• Less experienced generator operators

• Trainee generator operators

• Auxiliary equipment operators

• Electrical engineers new to generation

• Mechanical engineers

• Generation electrical maintenance

• Generation mechanical maintenance

Repeat in-house classes held at:

• Black Hills Power & Light’s Ben French Plant (Coal, gas turbine/combustion turbine and diesel engine)

• Black Hills Power & Light’s Wyodak Plant (Coal) jointly owned with PacifiCorp

• Georgia Power’s Plant Shear (Coal)

• Louisville Gas / Electric/Kentucky Utilities’ Green River Plant (Coal)

• Louisville Gas / Electric/Kentucky Utilities’ Ghent Plant (Coal)

• Louisville Gas / Electric/Kentucky Utilities’ Trimble County Generating Plant (Coal)

• PacifiCorp’s Dave Johnston Plant (Coal)

• PacifiCorp’s Jim Bridger Plant (Coal)

• PacifiCorp’s Huntington Plant (Coal)

• Seattle City Light’s Boundary (Hydro)

• Seattle City Light’s Skagit (Hydro)

• Seawest (Wind)

• Tacoma Power’s Mayfield Dam

• Tennessee Valley Authority’s Wilson Dam