Scope and Achievements:

A 3-days Paladin DesignBase Training for industrial plant, utility, and consulting engineers with emphasis and effective solutions based on Paladin DesignBase Rev. 3.0.release.

By attending 3-days workshop, the attendees will learn:

• Paladin DesignBase Structure and features;
• Managing the Paladin DesignBase tools;
• Organizing a project and the project files;
• Power Flow studies: scope, methods, input data, output report, organizing a power flow report and connecting the report to the Paladin DesignBase (EDSA) project, voltage control, load analysis, dynamic individual motor starting, simultaneous multiple motor starting, motor starting impact to the study network;
• Short Circuit studies: scope, methods IEEE and IEC, input data, output report, organizing a short circuit report and connecting the report to the Paladin DesignBase project, protective device evaluation (PDE), sliding faults;
• PDC studies: scope, protection principles, protection coordination, data base, generating a PDC data base, input data, output report, organizing a PDC Report and connecting the Report and PDC curves to the Paladin DesignBase (EDSA) project;
• Arc Flash investigation; generic approach and trends.

Day One

• Paladin DesignBase 3.0 – New Features and Functions;
• Modeling practices as outlined in IEEE-399 “Brown Book”;
• Paladin DesignBase Graphique Interface :DesignBase 3.0 GUI;
• Catalog Management;
• Single Line Diagram Setup;
• Defining Scenarios;
• Project Layout Management (*.axd, *.mas, *.epr. project files);
• Multiple Page Projects;
• Multiple Drawings Project;
• Multiple Drawings and Pages Project;
• Electrical interconnection: multiple pages, multiple drawings projects;
• Hyper-linking;
• Hyper-linking to the Internet and other applications;
• Back Annotation;
• The Symbol Property Menu;
• Customizing Single Line Diagrams;
• Importing Drawings from AutoCAD and other applications;
• Practical Exercises (Ex.1 project completion);
• Modeling UPS
• Load Flow Analysis;
• Voltage Control (Transformer Taps & Reactive Power options);

 

Day Two

• Local and Remote Voltage Control using ULTC's and SVC's;
• Transformer Sizing using Load Flow Results
• Motor Starting Methods (standard, capacitor assisted, capacitor/reactor assisted);
• Motor Starting Analysis using the load flow methodology
• The Load Flow/Motor Starting Graphical Browser;
• Scenario Voltage Profile analysis;
• Practical Exercises;
• 3 Phase Short Circuit Analysis;
• Standards and Analysis Options;
• L-G, L-L, L-L-G and 3P reporting;
• Short Circuit Reports
• Protective Device Evaluation;

Day Three

• Power System Protection;
• Type of protections;
• Protective Device Coordination Analysis; protective devices, IT (instrument transformers), coordination principles;
• Practical Exercises;
• PDC Stand Alone and network base; managing Stand Alone PDC program;
• PDC GUI based; new features and functions; managing the PDC GUI based;
• Customizing and Exporting the Time Current Coordination Graph into Word documents;
• Importing Motor Starting Curves from the Motor Torque and Performance Program;
• Generator decrement curve;
• Organizing a PDC report: layout and content;
• Injection of Fault Currents and Tripping Time Evaluation;
• Back annotation of PDC data on the one line diagram;
• Arc Flash investigation; generic approach on Arc Flash projects.