Course Description
The course provides an in-depth overview on the Performance and Maintenance of overhead lines. The basic idea of such a comprehensive course is to provide all attendees with an opportunity to firstly gain a clear understanding on all aspects related to the operations and maintenance of overhead lines to learn the practical applications thereof by using the most effective practices.
Course Objectives
- Identifying various maintenance solutions to improve system reliability
- Understanding transfer capability of Transmission overhead line
- Learning practical line performance and maintenance procedures
- Understanding the impact that incorrect practices have on the performance
Who Should Attend?
- Operation and maintenance managers
- Engineers
- Technicians
- Electrical Utility staff working in system planning, operations or research areas
- Anyone wishing to become Overhead Linesman in the Electrical Distribution Sector
Course Details/Schedule
- Introduction
- Challenges facing modern day utilities
- Evolution of maintenance practices
- Dead line maintenance
- Live line maintenance
- Servitude, vegetation & environmental management
- General substation maintenance
- Maintenance of power transformers
- Maintenance of circuit breakers
- Maintenance of isolators
- Maintenance of earthing links
- Maintenance of generic high voltage components for both overhead lines
- Maintenance of generic high voltage components for substations – Insulators
- Maintenance of secondary plant
- Equipment Maintenance
- Various maintenance solutions
- EMF
- Application of overhead lines surge arresters for improving overhead line performance
- Overhead Line Inspections
- Overhead Line Audits
- Emergency interactive solutions
