Organisation profile
Premium Power is an electrical engineering consultancy providing safe, reliable, and cost effective solutions for the pharmaceutical and manufacturing industry and utility and renewable sectors. With offices in Ireland and the UK, the company specialises in electrical network resilience, electrical safety and electrical design and works with some the largest pharmaceutical, manufacturing and data centre facilities in the world.
Training aim
To provide an understanding of the causes and implication of poor power factor in industrial and commercial enterprise and how cost effective power factor correction solutions can be designed and implemented.
Learning objectives
Be aware of the implications of poor power factor
Understand methods of power factor measurement
Understand the most commonly implemented solution to power factor correction
Understand how harmonic distortion arises in electrical networks
Understand the importance of considering the harmonic impact of power factor correction
Have an understanding of the practical consideration when implementing power factor correction
Course outline
An understanding of the power factor in electrical circuits.
Cost implications of poor power factor in industrial and commercial enterprise
How poor power factor arises and the types of load involved.
How power factor can be measured and improved
How the saving from power factor improvement can be calculated
Types of power factor correction available.
Importance of, and impact of, capacitors on harmonic distortion levels within a plant.
Practical solutions to Power Factor Correct
Trainer's profile
PAUL DEMPSEY BEng, BSc, AEng MIEI, MEI
Paul has vast engineering experience. Such projects entail electrical system modelling using a variety of software’s to carry out protection co-ordination, load flow, short circuit and arc flash analysis. Other areas of exposure include power quality studies, electrical system design and wind energy design. Paul regularly carries out training on arc flash and system modelling for clients. Paul is train the trainer qualified and has just completed an MSc in Energy Management in the Dublin Institute of Technology. He is also a graduate of Cork Institute of Technology and the UCD Micheal Smurfit business school.
ANDREW HOGAN BTech Eng, BSc, MIEI, MIET
Andrew has vast engineering experience working on electrical projects, which include electrical system modelling (protection co-ordination, load flow, short circuit and arc flash analysis), power quality analysis and mitigation, electrical system design and electrical system reliability through FMEA and state enumeration methods. Andrew has just completed an MSc in Energy Management in the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Course duration
Half day
Assessment & certification
Questionnaire at end of course.
Who should attend
Engineering manager, Facility Engineers, Maintenance Managers, responsible for energy management and mission critical systems in the, Industrial, Data Centre and Renewable Energy sectors.
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