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Hydroelectric Power Plants Electrical Design

Credit: 10 PDH Hours
Course Fee: $90.00
118 pages

How it Work!

  1. Register first and log into your account. Study and take the quiz for FREE until passed.
  2. After passing the quiz, follow the page, pay for the course and print your certificate.

Course Summary:

This course provides guidance and assistance to design engineers in the development of electrical designs for new hydroelectric power plants. The manual should be used when preparing electrical designs for hydroelectric power plants for civil works facilities built, owned, or operated by the Corps of Engineers. Treatment of electrical systems for pumped storage plants is not covered in the manual, although much of the information is applicable to pumped storage plant systems and subsystems.

Learning Objective:

  • Introduction
  • Basic Switching Provisions
  • Generators
  • Power Transformers
  • High Voltage Systems
  • Generator Voltage Systems
  • Station Service Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Annunciation Systems
  • Communication Systems
  • Grounding Systems
  • Conduit and Tray Systems
  • Wire and Cable
  • Procedure for Power house design
  • Lighting and Receptacle Systems
  • Direct Current Systems

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Course Content

Course Author: US Army Corps of Engineers

Certificate of completion of the course

This course comes with a multiple-choice quiz. You can view the quiz and take the quiz if you are logged in your account. You can take the quiz for this online PDH course as many times until passed. The passing grade is 70% and above. After you pass the quiz simply follow the page, to pay for the course and print your certificate instantly. A copy of the certificate and receipt for this course will always be in your account.

This online PDH course can also be used as a continuing education course for the following.

PE Electrical Engineers

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