- BuildingDesign - Services & Construction Products Index
All Underwoods CPDs below conform with the following:
Duration: CPDs last on average 45 minutes unless stated otherwise
Accreditation: TBC
Managing your infrastructure, Security of Supply, Automatic monitoring and control of switchgear and equipment, remote metering and data logging, real time event recorders, Generator control and paralleling.
Review of origins of protection, discrimination aims and pitfalls, grading margins and fault levels.
Understanding the standards BSEN60439-1 and eiema definitions, form requirements, common pitfalls, buyer or specifier responsibility.
G59, Embedded Generation, Synchronous Generation, Asynchronous Generation. Exporting Energy, ROCOF-Vector Shift, Protection requirements.
Types of equipment up to 11kV, Covering Ring-main units, Primary and secondary Switchboards, Fixed and Withdrawable Switchboards. Oil, SF6 and Vacuum Insulated mediums.
Fuse Switches, Moulded Case Circuit Breakers (MCCB), Miniature Circuit Breakers (MCB), Air Circuit Breakers (ACB), Fuses versus Breakers.
Power factor correction principals, Capacitors, Controllers, Inductors. Harmonic causes and effects and solutions.
Origins of protection, CT Specifications, Restricted and Unrestricted Earth Fault, Overcurrent and Earth Fault, Discrimination and Grading summary.
Air, Liquid, Cast Resin types. Price Grading, Specification, Protection Devices.