How to Start Electrical Substation Design?
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Hi everyone
I’m interested in learning about electrical substation design and would like to understand where to start. I know substations are important for power distribution and transmission, but I’m not sure about the main steps involved in designing one.
Some of the things I’m curious about are:
What are the basic components used in a substation?
How do engineers decide the voltage levels and transformer ratings?
What safety and protection systems are normally included?
Are there any recommended resources or books for beginners?
If anyone here has experience with power systems or substation engineering, I’d really appreciate your guidance or suggestions.
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This is really not a MySensors topic!
Just by the way present you request indicates that you are way over your head. I have a degree in electrical engineering, the study of electrical energy generation, transmission, distribution, etc. and substation design would take me years of study to be competent.
Any discussion about electrical energy delivery start with safety. Fuses and breakers, basically, but these have to be able to break 1000's of amps ... not a trivial task. The trick is to bring down the circuit without damaging other equipment on the circuit. Just detecting a fault is a doctoral candidate dissertation.
Basic components: transformers, breakers, switches and a lot of instrumentation.
Voltage levels are pretty much already defined because the equipment available is already set for those levels. Transformer basic rating is KVA, input and output voltage. There's a lot more to it ... a lot more.
As far as books for beginners ... I can't imagine that there are any. There are probably books for people who have been in the industry for more than a few years.
