Delivered by highly experienced Socomec Critical System Application Engineers and ideally suited to Electrical and Mechanical design/development engineers.
Hosted at your offices and including participants from 4 to 40, you will receive an individual presentation pack and a CPD certificate on completion. Seminar Length- maximum 1 hour and organised around your schedule.
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We currently offer 10 certified CPD seminars
General introduction to UPS system
- Identifying the need for UPSs
- Basic operation and building blocks of a UPS system Comparison of UPS technologies
- Energy storage options
- Adding system redundancy
- Communication and monitoring options
Earthing and Neutrals within Transformer and Transformer-less UPS
- How the type of installations will affect the operation of the UPS
- How the earth and neutral connect to the UPS
- How different topographies of UPS manage the neutral
- Potential problems
- Possible solutions
The application of 3 and 4 Pole STS units
- Identification of the need for STSs
- The application of 3 Pole STSs
- The application of 4 Pole STSs
- The operation of ‘ATSM’ – Advanced Transformer Switching Management
- The application of a ‘ATSM’
The benefits of Modular UPS Systems
- UPS Architecture
- How to achieve high availability
- Footprint
- Total Cost of Ownership
- Topologies
The benefits of Lithium Ion batteries in UPS application
- VRLA Batteries
- Lithium Ion batteries background
- Safety and Standards
- Case Studies
- Battery Ageing and EOL management
Energy Management
Identify wasted energy, help reduce costs and cut carbon emissions with 3 key components:
- Meters and monitoring devices
- Communication & data capture
- Software
Power Quality Monitoring: causes, effects & solutions
- Understand the causes: harmonics, crest factors, electrical events, power factor
- See the effects
- Learn the solution to power quality issues
Residual Current Monitoring
- Insulation faults
- Reminder on earthing systems
- Residual Current Monitoring (RCM)
- RCM vs RCD
- Needs and challenges related to RCM
- RCM, for which markets?
Automatic Transfer Switch essentials
- Understand where ATS are required and how to implement them
- Make decisions regarding when to include a bypass
- Requirements for ATS (critical loads)
- ATS application (location, timers, example of a changeover cycle)
- ATS standards (BS 60947-6-1, BS 9999:2008, BS 8519:2010)
- ATS Bypass
- ATS technologies (contactor, circuit breaker, switch)
Fire Standards in relation to Transfer Switches
- Selecting the right Transfer Switch
- Standards
- Co-ordination considerations
- Utilisation categories & classifications
- Automatic Transfer Switch Bypass