Power Protection Systems

This course aims to provide participants with a fundamental understanding of power system protection and design. It involves an introduction to power-system fault calculations, a review of protection principles and relaying with reference to relevant international standards, and a study of fundamental practices in generator protection, transformer protection, line protection, motor protection, and pilot relaying.

At the end of this course, participants should be able to: 

• Gain an up to date knowledge on power system protection schemes and related standards
• Familiarize with techniques to calculate out short-circuit currents
• Apply protection principles to design protection for electric power equipment and systems
• Model power system protection and coordination schemes using industry-standard software ETAP
• Acquire hands-on experience of protection relays and power system hardware simulator

• Engineers
• Technical managers and technicians working in the electrical power industry
• Those working at energy utility, manufacturing, and services companies

• Introduction to power system faults
• Short-circuit current calculations in AC systems
• Review of standards
• Protection principles
• Relay technology
• Overcurrent protection
• Unit protection
• Distance protection
• Transformer/Generator/Motor protection
• Industrial power system protection
• Control and limitation of short-circuit currents

Morning sessions are lectures and work examples, with afternoon sessions dedicated to hands-on experiments and power system protection case study using the ETAP software.