Power Plant Protection

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

Equipment rarely fails without first sending signals. The question is, are you looking for the signals? Utilizing an oil analysis program is one of the best ways to find those early indications of equipment failure. This interactive online course will teach you about the importance of instituting an oil analysis program and partnering with the right laboratory. You will also learn how to choose what equipment to sample, what tests to use and how to train your personnel.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Recognize the difference between basic oil analysis and an oil analysis program
• Describe how to select equipment for sampling
• Describe how to select a laboratory Identify different types of oil analysis tests
• Describe best practices for training personnel to obtain samples from equipment

Duration: 2.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

This course is designed to familiarize participants with devices and techniques used to protect boilers and turbines. After completing this course, participants should be able to identify common boiler and turbine problems and explain how they can be prevented or minimized.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the basic operation of a balanced-draft, controlled circulation, drum-type boiler.
• Identify and describe the basic requirements for starting up a boiler.
• Identify common boiler combustion problems.
• Describe automatic controls that regulate the combustion process.
• Describe actions that operators can take to address combustion problems.
• Identify automatic protective devices associated with the combustion process.
• Identify common problems that occur on the water and steam side of a boiler.
• Describe actions that operators can take to address water and steam problems.
• Identify automatic protective devices associated with the boiler steam/water cycle.
• Identify common temperature-related and pressure-related turbine problems.
• Describe actions that operators can take to address turbine problems related to temperature and pressure.
• Identify automatic protective devices associated with temperature and pressure problems.
• Describe turbine problems associated with overspeed, vibration and eccentricity.
• Describe actions that operators can take to address overspeed, vibration and eccentricity problems.
• Identify automatic protective devices associated with overspeed, vibration and eccentricity problems.

Duration: 2.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

This course is designed to familiarize participants with various types of hazards that may exist in a power plant. After completing this course, participants should be able to identify common types of mechanical and electrical hazards, temperature and pressure hazards, and fire and chemical hazards. They should also be able to describe devices and techniques that can be used to prevent or minimize these hazards.

Learning Objectives

• Describe conditions that commonly lead to material and equipment failure.
• Identify ways to detect equipment failure.
• Describe common electrical hazards in a power plant.
• Identify devices used to prevent or minimize electrical hazards.
• Identify devices used to prevent abnormal temperature conditions.
• Identify devices used to prevent abnormal pressure conditions.
• Identify common chemical hazards in a power plant
• Identify ways to prevent chemical hazards.
• Describe fire protection systems commonly found in power plants.

Duration: 2.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

This course is designed to familiarize participants with the interaction of various systems that work together to protect plant equipment. After completing this course, participants should be able to interpret logic diagrams that represent the functions carried out by plant protection equipment. They should also be able to identify conditions that can cause a boiler trip, a turbine trip, and a generator trip.

Learning Objectives

• Describe what logic diagrams are and how they can be used to represent functions carried out by plant protection equipment.
• Describe the functions of AND gates, OR gates, NOT gates and time delay (TD) gates in logic circuits.
• Describe what interlocks are and how the actions of interlocks associated with boiler operations are represented in logic diagrams.
• Describe how logic diagrams can be used to represent conditions that cause equipment trips.
• Identify conditions that can cause a boiler trip and describe how a logic diagram can be used to illustrate those conditions.
• Identify conditions that can cause a turbine trip and describe how a logic diagram can be used to illustrate those conditions.
• Identify conditions that can cause a generator trip and describe how a logic diagram can be used to illustrate those conditions.
• Describe how the protection systems for boilers, turbines, and generators are interrelated.