Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• appreciate the design principles and critical elements
• understand the critical elements of operation & maintenance of Capacitor Banks
• understand the do’s and don’t for Circuit Breakers

Personnel from Power Utilities, Power Generation, transmission companies & industries and

Consultants responsible for engineering, commissioning, operation and Maintenance of substations

• Presentation & Slides
• Audio Visual Aids
• Interactive Discussion
• Participatory Exercise
• Action Learning
• Class Activities
• Case Studies
• Workshops
• Simulation

• Need of capacitor banks
• Power capacitor technologies & characteristics
• Externally fused,
• Internally fused &
• Fuseless power capacitors
• Capacitor bank design & operation
• Operation – do’s & don’t
• Capacitor bank maintenance & troubleshooting
• Different types of capacitor measuring
• Devices and their impacts on the results,
• Capacitance measuring techniques
• Diagnostic and protection
• Safety
• Capacitor bank protection

RECTUS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration