Interactive & Video Discount Package - New York Electrical and Ethics 36 PDH

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides additional information related to alternating current (AC) circuits and describes the associated components and terminology.

AC generators are widely used to produce AC voltage. Because of the nature of AC voltage and current, the operation of an AC generator requires that rules and procedures be followed. There are various types of AC generators available, each type having advantages and disadvantages.

AC motors are widely used to drive machinery for a wide variety of applications. Furthermore, transformers are used extensively for AC power transmissions and for various control and indication circuits.

Knowledge of the basic theory of how these different components operate is necessary to understand the particular role they play in today’s facilities.

This 1 PDH online interactive presentation is intended primarily for electrical engineers and design and construction personnel who are interested in gaining a better understanding of alternating current systems.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides an overview of the types and applications of electrical conductors used in electrical systems.

Circuit components provide the majority of the operating characteristics of any electrical circuit. They are useless, however, if they are not connected together. Conductors are the means used to tie these components together.

Many factors determine the type of electrical conductor used to connect components. Some of these factors are the physical size of the conductor, its composition, and its electrical characteristics. Other factors that can determine the choice of a conductor are the weight, the cost, and the environment where the conductor will be used.

This 1 PDH online interactive presentation is intended primarily for electrical engineers, technicians, and professionals who are interested in gaining a better understanding of electrical conductors.

This online engineering PDH course presents an overview of modern electrical substations, emphasizing their importance for reliable and effective operation of power systems; describing all major, auxiliary and control equipment; listing typical engineering issues associated with substation design and engineering; and providing recommendations for addressing these issues. The entire course series consists of three parts:

• Part 1: Mission of Electrical Substations and their Main Components
• Part 2: Electrical Substation Auxiliary and Control Systems
• Part 3: Electrical Substation Engineering Aspects

The first part of the course starts with a discussion about the main goals that every utility company has and demonstrates how modern power systems are arranged to accomplish all these goals. It also concentrates on what place electrical substations have in the overall power system structure; and how important they are for reliable and effective operation of power systems. This part also provides an overview of substation major equipment, explaining the mission, and arrangement of each component.

The second part of the course is concentrated on substation auxiliary and control systems which play a major role in allowing all station equipment to function properly, thus, fulfilling the main substation mission to support reliable and effective operation of power systems. The following auxiliary and control systems are considered, including explanations of their mission, operation principles and arrangement including relay protection, metering systems, auxiliary AC/DC Power systems, station alarm and remote control systems.

The third and last part of the course is concentrated on substation engineering aspects, which may be very challenging and require from utility company engineers a very diverse knowledge and experience to address these aspects. The following topics include a description of specific problems associated with them as well as possible resolution options including reliability analysis, typical substation switching systems, insulation coordination, substation safety and fire protection, substation design issues, substation insulator’s performance improvement.

This 2 PDH online course is applicable to electrical and civil engineers and designers, construction professionals, as well as utility company management and field personnel looking to expand their knowledge and experience in modern electrical substations.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides an overview of the basic principles of control systems and instrumentation used in industry, and the profitability and quality of the product or service obtained from an improved process or system.

Instrumentation and control is the nervous system of industrial complexes, power generation, and basically all the processes that require some intelligence to accomplish the task of producing a product or process. When a process is modified to improve its function, the best and most economic change of the system is to improve the control and occasionally the instrumentation areas. The efficiency of the controls reflects directly in the profitability and quality of the product or service obtained from a process or system.

This presentation will walk you through the elements that make a control system and present to you the most common instrumentation used in industry. It describes basics of control loops, configuration, including control loop and its elements. It also describes instrumentation for pressure, flow, level and temperature, explaining their physical principles, and common applications. Introduction to motor controls is included in the last section of the course. Basic motor control schematics for simple motor starters are explained. Finally, basic description of a of modern motor control center is presented.

This 1 PDH online course is applicable to electrical, chemical, and mechanical engineers, as well as project managers in industry, who are interested either in learning more about control systems and instrumentation or wish to refresh basic control and instrumentation concepts.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides an introductory guidance to better understand how transformers work, how they are best maintained, and how to test and evaluate their condition.

Transformers have been widely used at powerplants for the last century to transfer energy from one circuit to another by electromagnetic induction. While operating principles of transformers remain the same, the challenges of maintaining and testing transformers have evolved along with transformer design and construction. Modern transformers are designed to closer tolerances than transformers in the past.

Thus, effective, regular maintenance and testing is even more essential to continued operation when traditional “overdesign” cannot be relied on to overcome abnormal conditions. The utility engineer must be familiar with all aspects of maintenance and testing and make use of state-of-the-art tools and techniques for evaluating transformer condition.

This 1 PDH online interactive presentation is intended to electrical and mechanical engineers, maintenance personnel, utility engineers and other technical staff who are interested in gaining a better understanding of transformers.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides a brief guidance on new motor purchase decisions, and on how to identify and determine the energy and cost savings for those motors that should be replaced with premium efficiency units.

In 2006, the total annual energy consumption due to motor-driven equipment in the U.S. industrial, commercial, residential, and transportation sectors amounted to 38.4% of total U.S. electrical energy use. While standard and energy efficient motors are still on the market, the energy savings from replacing in-service standard and energy efficient motors with premium efficiency motor models can be substantial.

This presentation begins by examining the in-service motor population and motor uses in the industrial sector. It then discusses the evolution of voluntary and mandatory motor efficiency standards while indicating how to evaluate motor efficiency opportunities, address application considerations, and determine cost-effectiveness. It provides an overview of currently available and emerging advanced “Super Premium” efficiency motor technologies. It also provides tips on “tuning” your in-plant distribution system to ensure efficiency gains are not lost due to undervoltage operation or to excessive voltage unbalance. Finally, the presentation discusses the preventive and predictive maintenance activities necessary to keep premium efficiency motors operating at peak efficiency.

This 5 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to electric motor suppliers and consumers, and electrical and mechanical engineers and designers interested in new motor purchases or standard motor replacement.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provide an overview on the geomagnetic disturbances and their effects on the U.S. electric grid.

Geomagnetic disturbances (GMD), a result of space weather, pose a risk to the U.S. electric grid, although it is not clear how severe a risk. When GMDs occur, they can cause geomagnetically induced current (GIC) in the electric transmission grid, which can cause service disruption or damage under some circumstance.

This 2 PDH online interactive presentation is intended primarily for electrical engineers and professionals who are interested in learning more about how to protect the electric grid from GMDs. 

This engineering online PDH video presentation will establish, through slides and discussions, the importance of protecting substations from possible damage.

Substations represent the most important junction in the electric power system; generation switchyard, transmission, subtransmission, distribution, unit, customer and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are important substation types that make up the electric grid. Substation represent the most expensive property in the utility system that includes very expensive equipment, such as power transformers, instrument transformers, breakers, capacitors, shunt reactors, switches, SCADA and relays. Nowadays, data and big data play critical role in the energy world to transform substations to intelligent substations; monitoring devices and advanced cameras are installed at critical substations to reduce O&M, extend the life of various components and prevent damage.

This 2 PDH online video presentation is intended for electrical, renewable and sustainability engineers as well as others interested in learning more about intelligent substations.

This  online engineering PDH video presentation will establish, through slides and discussions, the impact of the new proposed non-wire alternatives/solutions on the generation, transmission, substations, and distribution systems.

On a global scale, several groups are working tirelessly to promote renewables and non-wire alternatives (NWA) or non-wire solutions (NWS) to mitigate forecasted load demand and defer traditional transmission and distribution (T&D) load relief/capital expenditures. In certain locations, the utility core functions have shifted/changed significantly. Customers’ role have changed as well; from passive energy consumers to power producers.

This online engineering PDH video presentation will explain the different types of transformers including oil-cooled, air-cooled, different core types, and will focus on the most important parameters of the transformers.

CT and PT instrumentation and protection, including magnetic core or Hall Effect types are discussed. The presentation will describe the transformer major components and functionalities. For example, main tank cooling; deaerator; bushing and load tap changers. Electrical and oil dielectric testing methods, including DGA - Dissolved Gas Analysis, are explained with examples. The student will understand the most important issues related to the power transformer major components, and learn important techniques required to properly design and test power transformers.

This 2 PDH video presentation is intended primarily for electrical engineers, technicians, and others who are interested in enhancing their knowledge of power transformer design and testing.

This online engineering PDH video presentation will present the flow of power from power generating plants all the way to the point of use.

This course begins with coverage of electrical power concepts in the DC, Single Phase AC, Three Phase AC, Per-Unit System in an easy to follow approach, illustrated and reinforced by practical applications, examples and numerical case studies or problems. Voltage, current and power measurement instrumentation is introduced explained through examples and applications. The important concept of power factor, and it’s remediation, is discussed and explained from various, easy to relate to, perspectives. The seminar then segues into the topic of the US power grid and Smart Grid. The US power grid’s vital statistics are introduced and explained through explicit illustrations, diagrams and pictures. The course then moves into an introduction followed by an in-depth discussion on power transmission lines. Characteristics, nuances and conventional applications of transmission lines are delved into, supported by numerous transmission line related mathematical problem examples. The participants are introduced to transmission line components. The discussion then flows downstream of transmission lines, into substations. Substations, substation components and their roles in a typical substation are discussed and illustrated through diagrams and pictures. The power transmission journey, in this course, is concluded with and in-depth coverage of power distribution systems. The coverage of power transmission and distribution would be incomplete without delineating electrical safety. Hence, course participants are provided a brief introduction to NEC, NESC and NFPA 70 E.

This 7 PDH video presentation is designed for engineers, professional engineers, energy professionals, engineering managers, technical professionals, technicians, facilities managers and other professionals who are not intimately familiar with power transmission and distribution. Participants are kept engaged through questions and answers, discussions and classwork.

This online engineering PDH video presentation contains a discussion of, and example calculation of the symmetrical components in power systems engineering. 

The presentation starts with the introduction and definition of the symmetrical components method and focuses on calculation of three-phase voltages and currents from their symmetrical components. The lesson continues with the reverse process of how to find the symmetrical components of a given three-phase set of voltages or currents. Fully worked out examples are included to demonstrate application of the theory to practice.

This 1 PDH online video presentation is intended primarily for electrical engineers, and in particular those interested in learning the foundations of power systems protection engineering, as well as any engineer interested in learning about the interesting and useful theory of symmetrical components that allows decomposition of three-phase systems into their constituent sequence components.

This online engineering PDH video presentation will establish the critical role of the energy control center operator and the need for advanced system operations to manage the energy system.

The energy system is going through a massive transformation and digitalization phase, to entertain all the political and customer demands, such as smart grids, transportation electrification: electric vehicles, vehicle 2 home, grid, and everything, building electrification (converting gas heating to electric heating), cybersecurity, electric vehicles, transactive energy, accommodating distributed energy resources, i.e. solar, onshore and offshore wind, and energy storage. In addition to meeting several Governor, commissioner, city, state, and country’s massive goals, i.e. 100% clean or renewable energy by 2050 or sooner.

The utility world is split concerning the stability and reliability of the future grid, where senior engineers and energy control center operators argue that the future system is not promising due to the lack of large power plants which results in a much weaker system inertia when compared to the current system. Also, the intermittent nature of renewables is another major issue that must be addressed. The importance of advanced system operations for the success of the future grid cannot be overstated. Additionally, various energy storage types, stacking options, and the difference between DSOs and TSOs, as well as various management systems, i.e. GMS, EMS, DMS, DERMS, ADMS, etc, will be discussed.

This online PDH video presentation reviews the steps required to perform Arc flash calculation based on NFPA70E and IEEE 1584 standards on the measurement of the flow rate of a fluid flowing under pressure in a closed conduit. It discusses the combined system of AC and DC voltage as well as risk factors when working on energized equipment.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are selected based on the incident energy exposure and the resulting hazard / risk category. This video presentation also presents two types of arc flash labels and ways to reduce arc flash energy.

This 1 PDH online video presentation is intended primarily for electrical and mechanical engineers, as well as others who are interested in learning more about arc flash hazards, standards and calculation.

This online engineering PDH video presentation introduces the laws and rules of ethics and professional responsibility governing the practice of engineering in the State of New York. It also emphasizes on behavior as a professional member of the workforce.

This video presents the provisions of professional conduct from two viewpoints. First, your conduct as a professional engineer with behavior that is unique to engineers such as stamping drawings, signing official or technical documents, preparing estimates for clients or employers, and submitting engineering reports to official agencies. Second, your behavior as a member of the larger workforce where you communicate with team members, follow company policies and procedures, and your overall behavior as part of a workplace community.

Furthermore, this presentation discusses the disciplinary cases and its outcomes in situations where professional engineers have violated the requirements of professional responsibility and ethical conduct – the decisions we make when no one is watching.

This 1 PDH online video presentation is applicable to Professional Engineers licensed in the State of New York and who are required to demonstrate continuing professional competency in engineering ethics as a condition of their license renewal. For each renewal period, every licensee must complete thirty six (36) professional development hours, at least one (1) of which must be relative to the law and rules professional responsibility, conduct and ethics.