Offshore Wind Farm Training

The offshore wind farm training course will assist you with understanding the innovative advancements of offshore wind farms, diverse sorts of wind turbines executed for offshore activities, control of offshore wind farms, assurance and unwavering quality appraisal of offshore wind advances.

By taking the offshore wind farm training course, you will understand the main components of an offshore wind farm including: turbine and blades, substations, wind towers, foundations, transformers, helipads, switch gears, crane, backup generators, marine cables, and control room. This course will also help you to understand the basics of induction generators as the main components of wind farms, power electronic based wind turbine generators, protections implemented for different types of faults in offshore wind farms and effect of faults on the wind turbines.

The audience in the offshore wind farm training course will also learn about:

• Crowbars in DFIGs
• Back to back converters in DFIGs
• Gear box in offshore wind farms, Wind turbines
• Modeling of DFIG in abc and dq frames
• Unbalanced operation of offshore wind farms
• Average modeling of wind farms
• Considering the DC side dynamics in offshore wind farms
• Active and reactive power control in offshore wind farms
• Pitch angle control of wind turbines
• Fault ride through capability of offshore wind farms
• HVDC and HVAC transmission systems in offshore wind farms
• VSC-HVDC transmission in offshore wind farms
• Energy storage systems in offshore wind farms
• Smart grids in offshore wind farms & Phasor measurement units for offshore wind farms

Audience: 
The offshore wind farm training is a 2-day course designed for:

• All individuals who need to understand the offshore wind farms from generation to consumption.
• Renewable energy utility engineers
• Test engineers
• Engineers seeking Ph.D. and graduate studies focused on renewable energies and microgrids
• Power traders to understand the offshore wind farm systems.
• Independent system operator personnel.
• Faculty members from academic institutes who want to teach the offshore wind farm course.
• Investors and contractors who plan to make investments in renewable energy industry.
• Professionals in other energy industries.
• Marketing people who need to know the background of the products they sell.
• Electric utility personnel who recently started career in power systems or having new job responsibilities.
  Technicians, operators, and maintenance personnel who are or will be working on renewable energy related projects
  Managers, accountants, and executives of power system industry.
  Scientist or non-electrical engineers involved in smart grid related projects or proposals.

Training Objectives

Upon completion of the offshore wind farm training course, the attendees are able to:

• Understand the history and background of offshore wind farms
• Explain the different types of wind turbines in offshore wind farms
• Describe the operation of offshore wind farms
• Understand the different types of transmission systems in offshore wind farms
• Explain the protections implemented for different parts of offshore wind farms
• Understand the control of offshore wind farms
• Design an offshore wind farm for a real world project
• Tackle the problems related to unbalance and faults in offshore wind farms
• Combine the concept of offshore wind farms into the microgrids.
• Design the advanced control algorithms for offshore wind turbine projects

Training Outline

The offshore wind farm training course consists of the following lessons, which can be revised and tailored to the client’s need:

• Introduction
• Introduction to Wind Energy Systems
• Main Components of An Offshore Wind Farm
• Wind Turbines Based On DFIG
• Control Of Wind Turbines
• Transmission And Compensation In Offshore Wind Farm
• Protection Of Offshore Wind Farms

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