Who Should Attend

• Engineers working in the power and energy sector
• Railway electrical power supply and propulsion professionals
• Electrical and electronic engineering professionals
• Researchers and educators in electrical engineering and urban sustainability-related areas

Prerequisites

• Bachelor degree in Engineering
• At least one-year of relevant working experience

What You Will Learn

Fundamentals of electric railway transportation

• An overview of railway electrification and traction power supply systems
• Technical and design aspects of railway electrification
• Project engineering a major electrification project
• Rails and propulsion mechanics
• Overview of permanent way systems in the context of Singapore

Electrical railway traction and railway electrical power supply

• AC/DC traction motors and their applications in railway electrification, traction system control and converters/inverters
• Different types of DC/AC railway electrical power supply systems
• Contact lines and current collectors, protection and feed systems, stray current
• Design considerations for DC railway systems
• Demonstration of applied research projects in railway electrification
• An invited industry lecture around the theme of transportation electrification with contents varying from year to year
• Software-based hands-on group design projects for AC and DC railway electrification systems

Distributed energy resources in the built environment

• Distributed generation (DGs) including micro-turbine, combined cooling, heating and power generation (CCHP), rooftop PV, fuel cell, solar thermal, bioenergy, integration of DGs and challenges
• Energy storage technologies including electrochemical, chemical, electrical, mechanical and thermal demonstration
• Demonstration of the instructor’s applied research on energy storage modelling (model based and data-driven) and machine-learning based online monitoring
• Applications of energy storage systems including load levelling, microgrid operation, demand response and others
• Demonstration of the instructor’s applied research on planning and operation optimisation of energy storage systems

Advances in Electrification in the Built Environment

• AC/DC urban microgrids, multi-energy microgrids, transactive energy and energy internet
• Demonstration of the instructor’s applied research on operation and planning of multi-energy systems
• Data-driven planning and operation of urban microgrids: a real-life applied research project at SIT@NYP “Immersive Energy Monitoring, Forecasting, Planning and Operation with Uncertainty Level Management” led by the instructor
• Software-based hands-on group projects which target at urban microgrid design optimisation

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Schedule

*Subject to change

Certificate and Assessment

A Certificate of Participation will be issued to participants who:

• Attend at least 75% of the module; and
• Undertake non-credit bearing assessment during the course

A Certificate of Attainment for each module will be issued to participants who:

• Attend at least 75% of the module; and
• Undertake and pass credit bearing assessment during the course

Fee Structure

The full fee for this course is S$3,606.88

Note: All fees above include GST. GST applies to individuals and Singapore-registered companies.

Learning Pathway