This course aims to provide participants with technical theory and hands on practice in order to enable them prepare, plan and manage the maintenance of generators and their associated equipment. This programme endeavors to demonstrate the pragmatic use of testing, inspection, maintenance and design information as it applies to the troubleshooting needs of power plant generators and generator maintenance technical personnel.

The objective of this course is to:

· Provide participants with the knowledge and skills needed to operate and maintain generators

At the end of this training programme, course participants shall be able to:

· Explain generator design and construction;

· Operate and control a generator;

· Carryout monitoring and diagnostics on a generator;

· Monitor generator protection;

· Carryout maintenance of generators;

· Carryout generator inspections;

· Carryout out generator tests.

1) Generator Design and Construction

2) Generator Operation and Control

3) Monitoring and Diagnostics

4) Generator Protection

5) Generator Maintenance

6) Generator Inspections

7) Generator Tests.

Participants’ profile or target group are engineers, technologists, technicians, and any suitably qualified personnel requiring an understanding of generator operations and maintenance.