​Grounding Fundamentals

$1,295.00

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A two day course intended for Electrical and Instrument Engineers, Technicians and Maintenance Personnel who are responsible for the specification, design, installation and maintenance of power and control grounding systems in industrial facilities. The course covers power systems grounding, Canadian Electrical Code requirements related to bonding and grounding, static and lightning protection, grounding of control and instrumentation systems and the ground grid design of industrial facilities. 

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Course Description

• ​To describe the difference between grounding and bonding
  
• To apply the Canadian Electrical Code requirements related to grounding and bonding
  
• To select the appropriate systems ground for an electrical distribution system
  
• To implement static electricity control and lightning surge protection systems
  
• To avoid the problems typically associated with the grounding of sensitive electronic systems
  
• To design a ground grid for a high voltage industrial substation

Course Information

Course Includes:

• Hardcopy of slide presentation
• PDF of course materials
• Certificate of attendance
• Lunch is provided

Venue

Calgary
Westmount Business Campus
​Suite 300, 4838 Richard Road SW
Calgary, Alberta, ​T3E 6L1

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Instructor

Allan Bozek, P.Eng, MBA
Allan has over 30 years experience in the design, construction, commissioning and maintenance of industrial power systems. The scope of his experience includes manufacturing, oil and gas production, refining, water treatment and mining industrial facilities. He is a member of the IEEE industrial applications society, a committee member of the Canadian Electrical Code Section 18 (Hazardous Locations) and is a registered Profession Engineer in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario.

Detailed Outline

1. Background History
2. Definitions
3. Reference Publications

• Canadian Electrical Code
• IEEE Green Book
• IEEE Emerald Book
• IEEE 80 Standard for the Grounding of Substations

4. System Grounding

• Ungrounded Systems
• Solid grounded systems
• Resistance and impedance grounded systems
• High Resistance
• Low Resistance
• Ground resistor sizing
• Ground fault sensing
• Grounding of Generators
• Obtaining a system neutral

5. Equipment Bonding

• Grounding vs. bonding
• Bonding conductor sizing

6. Static Electricity

• Static Hazards
• Static Control

7. Lightning Protection

• Lightning phenomenon
• Lightning and surge protection

8. Grounding of Electronic Equipment

• Ground loops
• Common mode noise
• Principles of noise mitigation
• UPS grounding
• Intrinsic Safety grounding

9. Ground Grid Design

• Ground grid design fundamentals
• Ground potential rise
• Touch and step potential
• CEC requirements
• Measurement of ground resistance
• Primary and auxiliary ground electrodes
• Rebar grounding
• Substation grounding

10. Application Tutorial

• Design of a station ground electrode for a HV industrial substation