Ultimate Electrical Substations Course for Electrical Engineering
Learn about the basics of electrical substations without any previous knowledge for electrical engineering
Updated on Jun, 2025
Language - English
Teaching and Academics ,Engineering,Electrical Engineering
Lectures -28
Resources -2
Duration -5 hours
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Course Description
"Complete Electrical Substations For Electrical Power Engineering"
What are you going to learn?
Function, classification, and voltage of electrical substations.
Main components like power transformers, conductors, insulators, switch gears, current transformer, capacitor voltage transformer, and voltage transformer.
Different types of circuit breakers, relays, and their classification according to time, construction, and function.
Learn the difference between circuit breaker and fuse, in addition to their applications.
Understand the definition of IP or ingress protection.
Grounding system including the effect of current on the human body and components of the grounding system,
Types of electric hazards and classification of the earthing systems.
Measuring the earthing resistance by Megger and the three-point method.
Design of an earthing system using the ETAP program.
Ring main unit and its importance in the electrical power system.
Types of switches used in the electrical power systems and substations.
Overhead transmission lines, underground cables, and the difference between them.
Busbars in power system, its importance, its different schemes, and how to select them.
Lightning arrester and wave trap, which are used in substations.
Air and gas-insulated substations.
Overview of the design of an electrical substation and single line diagram of a 66/11 kV substation.
Prerequisites
Just passion and patience for learning
No requirement, only your PC or tablet or mobile for viewing lectures online
Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Electrical Substation Course
16 Lectures
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Introduction to Electrical Substation
06:21
06:21
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Construction of Electrical Substation
09:10
09:10
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Instrument Transformers and Principle of Operation of Trip Circuit
12:41
12:41
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Types of Circuit Breakers and Fuses Comparison
23:05
23:05
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Types of Relays According to Function, Construction, and Time Characteristics
06:15
06:15
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Definition of Busbar and Different Busbar Schemes
16:37
16:37
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Construction of Underground Cables
10:18
10:18
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Construction of Overhead Transmission Lines
15:18
15:18
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Comparison between Underground Cables and Overhead Transmission Lines
04:50
04:50
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Types of Switches in Power System and Substations
07:55
07:55
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Importance of Capacitor Banks in Power System
07:58
07:58
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Important Components in Electrical Substation
06:42
06:42
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Classification of Substations
05:00
05:00
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Relation between Voltage and Substations
01:46
01:46
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Air Insulated Substation and Gas Insulated Substation
08:37
08:37
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Importance of Ring Main Unit in Power System
06:48
06:48
Earthing System Design
8 Lectures
Introduction to Design of Electrical Substation
4 Lectures
Instructor Details
Ahmed Mahdy
About me
I am Ahmed Mahdy an electrical power engineer, researcher, and the founder of Khadija Academy. I am also an electrical bestselling instructor at more than 30 platforms, teaching electrical engineering. I have helped over 80,000 students from 196 countries achieve career success with simple and easy courses in the last 8 years. In addition, I have a YouTube educational engineering channel called" Khadija Academy", where I regularly post videos related to electrical engineering. In 2018, I was nominated among the top 10% of instructors on Tutorialspoint, besides currently ranking among the top instructors in the engineering sector of Tutorialspoin.
I have received the award for the best master's thesis in the Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University for 2022/2023.
Some of my published research works in the top electrical engineering journals worldwide:
1- Transient stability improvement of wave energy conversion systems connected to power grid using anti-windup-coot optimization strategy - Energy Journal - Impact Factor of 9.0.
2- Nonlinear Modeling and Real-Time Simulation of a Grid-Connected AWS Wave Energy Conversion System - IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy - Impact Factor of 8.8.
3- Modeling and optimal operation of hybrid wave energy and PV system feeding supercharging stations based on golden jackal optimal control strategy - Energy Journal - Impact Factor of 9.0.
4- State-of-the-Art of the most commonly adopted wave energy conversion systems - Ain Shams Engineering Journal - Impact Factor of 6.0.
5- Optimal Design of Fractional-Order PID Controllers for a Nonlinear AWS Wave Energy Converter Using Hybrid Jellyfish Search and Particle Swarm Optimization - Fractal and Fractional - Impact Factor of 5.4
6- Dynamic performance enhancement of nonlinear AWS wave energy systems based on optimal super-twisting control strategy - Ain Shams Engineering Journal - Impact Factor of 6.0.
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