Cost: $15 NYSSPE Members - (Membership number is required for registration) / $25 Non-Members
Need your membership number email: Jen - jamiller@nysspe.org

This presentation will provide an overview of the NEC guidelines for determining the ratings of Electrical Power Distribution equipment for Industrial, Commercial, Government, Healthcare and Institutions. 

Topics to be included are: 

1) Electrical System Overview

a) Single Line Diagrams, 

b) Circuit Beaker Basics, 

c) Fault Currents / Arc Interruption 

2) Arc Flash Overview

3) National Electric Code Overview

a) NEC Wiring / Conductors / Protective Devices 

b) Sample NEC Application Question

4) NEC Chapter 6: Fire Pumps Overview

a) Sample NEC Application Question

5) NEC Grouping of Disconnects

6) NEC Feeder Tap Rules

7) NEC Ground Fault Protection Overview

8) NEC Equipment Grounding Conductor Overview 

9) NEC 250: Generators and Automatic Transfer Switches: Separately Derived vs Not Separately Derived 

This presentation can serve as a refresher and/or an introduction to selected NEC calculations involved in the design of power distribution systems. 

THE SPEAKER: Gabriel Paoletti, P.E. (IEEE Senior Member) is a Senior Consultant, and applies his forty (40+) plus years of electrical power distribution experience to support the electrical power industry. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in nineteen (19) States, with a Certificate of Authority (COA) to perform Engineering in NY State. He has authored and presented numbers technical publications for IEEE and other organizations. He received his BSEE in Electrical Engineering at Drexel University in 1976 (Magna Cum Laude), and an MBA from Rutgers in 2009 (Summa Cum Laude). 

Mr. Paoletti has also been on the forefront of many power system innovations and was awarded the IEEE Engineer of the Year Award for 2009 (Northern New Jersey Chapter) for new product and service innovation which improved the efficient distribution of electrical power. He currently provides services such as Project Engineering, Owners Representative and engineering and feasibility studies, and failure root-cause analysis.