Aims

To give students an understanding of the important role of an asset manager in a modern electricity utility and to provide them with the necessary information and skills needed to maintain safe and reliable operation of distribution plant and equipment.

Outline Of Syllabus

Asset management strategies, reliability centred maintenance, partial discharge and insulation failure, arcs and switching phenomena, diagnostics for HV switchgear, insulation assessment diagnostics, diagnostics in HV cables, transformers diagnostics, acoustic monitoring, EM radiation detection.

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Lectures and the Distance Learning material provide core material and guidance for further reading. The Distance Learning material also provides problem solving practice and improves planning skills and on-line computer competences and gives students the opportunity to manage their own learning. Besides, the post-module assignment develops research skills and the ability to utilise relevant information from many sources.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The post module assignments are an appropriate way to assess both theoretical knowledge and understanding and problem solving skills under time-constraint as required in industry. They enable a more realistic engineering design problem to be set and will also assess data and information acquisition and evaluation skills.