DESIGN OF ELECTRICAL SYSTEM FOR OFFSHORE PLATFORM

Design of electrical system is indeed important in many operations not to disregard
the operation for offshore platform. Offshore operations acquire its own generation of
power supplyto supportthe facilities on the platform. Designing the electrical system
for any operations involves three main elements which are generation, distribution
and protection. Design process involves much analysis. Software simulation is
conducted replacing the manual methods of calculations. This simulation process
reduces error during calculations and time consume in design process. The objectives
of this project are to provide design of the electrical system demand for an offshore
platform and to design the mostoptimum system including the selection of generators
for the system. Studies and research of power system has been conducted. The
network has been designed and modeled. Simulation on the network performance
which includes loadflow and fault analysis has been conducted. Themethodology and
scope of study are as follows:
Conceptual design
Gathering ofnecessary power system components and data
Simulating, troubleshooting andanalysis the modeled powersystem