Day (1)

• INTRODUCTION TO GAS TURBINES:
• • General
• • The steam turbine
• • The gas turbine
• • Speed control
• • Starting and Stopping
• • Protection
• • Control
• • Washing
• • Anti-icing
• AC GENERATORS:
• • General
• • Rotor construction
• • Insulation
• • Cooling
• • Excitation and voltage control
• • Neutral Earthing resistor

Day (2)

• GENERATOR EXCITATION AND VOLTAGE CONTROL:
• • General
• • Conventional excitation
• • Static excitation
• • Brushless excitation (general case)
• • Behaviour under short circuit
• • Brush less excitation (without pilot exciter)
• • The diode bridge
• • Regulation response time
• • Automatic voltage regulators (AVR)
• • AVR set-point
• • AC generator voltage regulation
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• SYNCHRONISING OF GENERATORS:
• • General
• • DC Generators
• • AC Generators
• • Synchronsing AC generators
• • Lamp synchronising
• o The 2-lamp method
• o The 3-lamp method
• • Synchroscope
• • Synchronising at a switchboard
• • Automatic synchronising
• • Check synchronising
• • Closing onto dead busbar

Day (3)

• LOAD SHARING:
• • General
• • The DC Case
• • A.C. Generators
• • Control og generator loading
• • Voltage adjustment
• • Speed adjustment
• • Summary
• • Principles of parallel operation
• • Droop
• • Trimming and governor setting
• • Trimming and governor droop
• • Stability
• LOAD SHEDDING
• • General
• • Action
• • Shedding control
• • Planning
• • Automatic load shedding
• • Direct shedding
• • Testing
• GENERATOR PROTECTION
• • Introduction
• • Protecting the generator from external conditions
• • Sensing internal faults
• • Miscellaneous relays and mechanical protection
• • Typical generator protection
• • Generators and electrical safety:
• • Important safety points