Course Description

The Current Limiter Training Program provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of current limiting devices, their operating principles, applications, selection criteria, and integration into electrical systems. The course focuses on how current limiters protect equipment, enhance system reliability, and reduce fault damage in power distribution, industrial, and utility networks. Emphasis is placed on practical design considerations, coordination with protection systems, and real-world operating scenarios.

Course Objectives

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

  • Understand the purpose and importance of current limiting in electrical systems
  • Explain different types of current limiters and their operating principles.
  • Select appropriate current limiting solutions for various applications.
  • Analyze fault currents and system protection coordination.
  • Integrate current limiters with circuit breakers, fuses, and relays.
  • Identify installation, operation, and maintenance considerations.
  • Troubleshoot common current limiter issues.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for electrical engineers, power system engineers, maintenance engineers, technicians, utility personnel, and professionals involved in electrical system design, operation, and protection.

Course Agenda

Registration

Welcome & Introduction

Pre-Test

Day 1: Fundamentals & Types of Current Limiters

  • Introduction to fault currents and short-circuit phenomena
  • Purpose and benefits of current limiting
  • Current limiting vs current interruption
  • Types of current limiters:

          Current limiting fuses

          Reactor-based current limiters

          Solid-state current limiters

          Superconducting fault current limiters (SFCL)

  • Operating characteristics and response time
  • Standards and ratings (IEC, IEEE)
  • Coordination with protective devices
  • Application examples in LV, MV, and HV systems
Day 2: Application, Selection & System Integration
  • Short-circuit analysis fundamentals
  • Selection criteria for current limiters
  • Placement in electrical networks
  • Impact on system stability and protection schemes
  • Integration with circuit breakers, relays, and transformers
  • Thermal and mechanical considerations
  • Installation and commissioning best practices
  • Operation, monitoring, and maintenance requirements
  • Case studies and system protection scenarios
  • Common failures and troubleshooting approaches

Post Test

End of the Course

Assessment Methodology

All courses conducted by EdTech will begin with a Pre-evaluation and end with a Post-evaluation. The instructor will evaluate the knowledge and skills of the participants according to the feedback given by participants. This will help to recognize the benefits and the level of knowledge gained by participants through the course.

Training Methodology

Facilitated by a highly qualified specialist, who has extensive knowledge and experience; this program will be conducted using extensively interactive methods, encouraging participants to share their own experiences and apply the program material to real-life work situations in order to stimulate group discussions and improve the efficiency of the subject coverage.

Percentages of the total course hour classification are:

  • ​40% Theoretical lectures, Concepts and approach
  • 20% Motivation to develop individual skill and Techniques
  • 20% Case Studies and Practical Exercises
  • 20% Topic General Discussions and interaction

Course Manual

Participants will be provided with comprehensive presentation material as reference manual. This presentation material is a compilation of core valuable information, references, presentation methods and inspiring reading which will be used as a part of the material guide.

Course Certificate

At the completion of the course, all participants who successfully accomplished the required contact hours will receive an EdTech Training Participation Certificate as a testimony to their commitment to professional development and further education.

Why Edtech ?

  • Industry Experienced; Internationally Qualified Trainers
  • Hands-on Practical Sessions & Assignments
  • Intensive Study materials
  • Flexible Schedules
  • Realistic training methodology
  • High-Quality Training in Affordable Course Fees
  • Achievement Certificate, as approved by the Ministry of Education (Abu Dhabi Center for Technical and Vocational Education Training - ACTVET), HABC, AWS, IAOSHE, SHRM, etc.