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Learn about the basics of electrical substations without any previous knowledge for electrical engineering
Updated on Sep, 2026
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"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.
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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.
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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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