LUNCH & LEARN SERIES - Winter 2008
1) "THE BREAKER BOX"
Date: January 23, 2008
Time:  11:00am - 1:00pm
Location:  Electric League Office (638 W. 39th Street, Kansas City, MO 64111)
Description:  What is in that thing, why do some breakers have single handles and some have more than one handle connected together, which is better - breakers or fuses, and what would I need to know if replacement were required? This short series will discuss the internals and application of the many types of circuit breakers that exist with an eye to where they came from, how they function and how they may be used to one's advantage.
Cost:  $100/Members; $125/Non-Members (box lunch included)
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2) "PANEL-BOARD SIZING"
Date: February 20, 2008
Time:  11:00am - 1:00pm
Location:  Electric League Office (638 W. 39th Street, Kansas City, MO 64111)
Description: This is a complementary series to the Breaker Box. You may know how many breakers are needed and their current ratings; but what is this symmetrical and asymmetrical rating thing? Which applies to the breaker and which to the panel? Aren't all 200 Ampere breakers the same? What do they mean the "can" has a rating? Is this more important at the industrial, commercial, or residential level? What is all this stuff?
Cost:  $100/Members; $125/Non-Members (box lunch included)
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3)"TRANSFORMERS"
Date:  March 19, 2008
Time:  11:00am - 1:00pm
Location:  Electric League Office (638 W. 39th Street, Kansas City, MO 64111)
Description:  How many different kinds of transformers are there, what do they do, and how do they work? This series will define some terms like saturation, impedance, x/r ratio, phase shift, delta-wye, autotransformers, dry type versus oil filled and their applications.
Cost:  $100/Members; $125/Non-Members (box lunch included)
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LUNCH & LEARN SERIES TWO - FALL 2008
1)"POWER QUALITY"
Date:  September - 2008
Time:  10:00am - 2:00pm
Location:  To be Determined
Description:  I have heard power quality is related to harmonics, triplens, neutral currents, overheating, telephone interference, noise, non-linear impedances, etc.. What is Power Quality? How do these terms define Power Quality? How is Power Quality important to my business?

2)"GROUNDING SYSTEMS"
Date:  October - 2008
Time:  11:00am - 1:00pm
Location:  To be Determined
Description: I have heard of ungrounded, corner grounded, solidly grounded, tuned grounded, high impedance grounding systems. What are these grounding systems, are there others, how do they work? What is a good ground and how can I determine if I have one? When should something be grounded and what happens if it is not? This series will discuss these items and any questions you may have on the topic of grounding.

3)"POWER FACTOR CORRECTION"
Date:  November - 2008
Time:  11:00am - 1:00pm
Location:  To be Determined
Description: I have been told I have to correct my power factor. What is power factor, how does it impact the utility and why are they concerned, how can I improve it, and what will it cost me and what potentially will it save me?

Mr. Kelly’s Transmission and Distribution experience includes (in addition to those functions listed for generating stations) load, fault, and stability analyses, power quality investigations, protective relaying, integrated resource planning, ferroresonance, FACTS devices, facility retrofit projects, cost / benefit studies, auxiliary electric system analyses, and loss minimization investigations on systems from 13.8 kV through 500 kV to include ring, radial, and breaker-and-a-half substations.   

Mr. Kelly presently teaches ECE-460, “Electromechanical Conversion I”; “ECE-460, “Electromechanical Conversion II Lab; ECE-5590AE, “Auxiliary Electric System Design”; and ECE-664, “Transients in Electric Power Systems” for the University of Missouri at Kansas City and three electrical fundamental courses for the Electric League of Missouri and Kansas (Fundamentals I, II and Trouble Shooting of Electrical Equipment”.  He once taught the electrical portion of Kansas University’s graduate class ME-637, “Power Plant Engineering”, a book written by Black & Veatch.  He has also taught ECE-466, “Power System Analysis” for the University of Missouri at Kansas City Campus in the undergraduate program.  Mr. Kelly has also been an adjunct instructor at the University of Missouri-Columbia’s graduate engineering school in the 1970’s under Professor James Tudor of UMC. 

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