Practical Power System
Protection Design & Coordination.
Certified for 4 CPD Points
10 – 14 February 2025
Sandton Centre Johannesburg South Africa
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R19,999.00 Per Delegate
Course overview:
Power system protection systems play a crucial role in establishing reliable electrical power systems. Poorly designed protection systems may result in major power failures. Due to the increasing importance of electricity, such power failures can have a serious impact on society and the economy.
Knowledge of power system protection systems is key when it comes to optimizing the reliability level of electrical infrastructures. With the advances in protection and communication technology in recent decades plus the strong increase of renewable energy sources, the design and operation of power system protection systems has become ever more challenging.
This course presents the fundamentals of power system protection and its application. A very “hands-on” approach is used to teach the concepts. Understanding is reinforced with real world examples. Interaction is encouraged between participants and the presenters, to underpin the
learning objectives.
Learning objectives:
Through this course, participants will:
- Develop an understanding of the most common typesof protection.
- Learn how to apply the theory to a range ofpractical examples.
- Comprehend the jargon when specifying protection andcontrol equipment
- Understand how to determine relay settings, and/orevaluate systems designed by others
- Develop a structured approach and understanding of major protection schemes
- Ensure safe operation of the electrical equipment and installations
- Become familiar with testing and measuring instruments
- Ensure a sensible selection of protection functions and relay types for different operation scenarios
- Implement effective relay protection settings for different zones
- Calculation of fault levels and prospective fault current in a transformer
Targeted Audience:
- Project Engineers
- Project Managers
- Electrical Engineers
- Protection Technician
- Electrical Technicians
- System Operators
- Design Engineers
- Asset Engineers
- Asset Managers
- Planning Engineers
- Planning Managers
- Protection and Instrumentation Engineer
- Commissioning Engineers and Technicians
Course Outline:
Introduction to power system protection
- Protection concepts
- main and backup protection
- security and dependability
- selectivity
- Protection types
- fuses
- overcurrent protection
- differential protection
- distance protection
- Protection technologies
- Protection philosophies
- Protection setting plans
- Network topologies
- Smart Grids
- Renewable energy sources
- System grounding
- Behavior of power systems under fault conditions (introduction)
- Power system calculations
- Modelling of power systems
- Type of power system calculations
- Symmetrical component method
- Short circuit calculations
- Protection coordination studies
- Arc flash studies (introduction)
- Theory
- Examples
- Demonstration of Power Factory
- Demonstration of ETAP
- Electromechanical
- Static
- Digital
- Operation of digital relays
- Protection algorithms
- Current transformers
- Voltage transformers
- Non conventional instrument transformers
- Calculation of three phase faults using Ohmic method
- Per unit method for simplifying fault current calculations
- Worked-out example using per unit method— 3ph, ph-ph, and ph-ground
- Typical values of per unit impedances for generators, motors, transformers, etc. Basic concept of symmetrical components and using them to calculate fault currents
- Fault current relationship involving different transformer connections
- Worked-out example using a commercial software
- Symmetrical and unsymmetrical components of fault current
- What is DC offset?
- Response of relays to DC offset
- Relay response depends on time elapsed since fault inception
- Fault current duties experienced by interrupting devices such as fuses, breakers, etc.
- Evaluation of interrupting devices based on first cycle duty and symmetrical duty
- Types
- Specifications
- Guidelines for protection of power transformers
- Protection concepts for power transformers
- Protection equipment typically used for power transformers
- Setting guidelines
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- fuses
- overcurrent protection
- transformer differential protection
- restricted earth fault protection
- Guidelines for protection of power cables and lines
- Protection concepts for power cables and lines
- Protection equipment typically used for power cables and lines
- Overcurrent protection
- setting guidelines
- Distance protection
- Differential protection
- Operating principles
- Trip characteristic types
- Power Swing Blocking
- Guidelines for protection of substations
- Protection concepts for substations
- Protection equipment typically used for substations
- Setting guidelines
- Busbar protection
- low impedance differential protection
- high impedance differential protection
- arc detection
- Worked examples
- Guidelines for protection of motors
- Protection concepts for motors
- Protection equipment typically used for motors
- Setting guidelines
- thermal overload
- starting protection
- load jam protection
- locked rotor protection
- Worked examples
- Switch onto fault protection
- Supervision of instrument transformers
- Trip circuit supervision
- Auto-reclose
- Operating diagram
- Protection devices
- Safety
- Standards
- Execution of an arc flash study
- From components to system protection
- System disturbance
- Frequency protection
- Voltage protection
- Basic concepts of wide area protection
- Phasor measurement unit
- Application of wide area protection systems
- Protection concepts for HVDC networks
- Protection of point-to-point HVDC connections
- Protection of meshed HVDC networks
- Worked examples
- DC breakers
- need for DC breakers
- latest development
- Demonstration of setting software
- Relay logic
- Explain the purpose of protective relays in a T&D system.
- Describe how a protective relay is used in a T&D system.
- Describe five common relay elements and explain how they work.
- Introduction to numerical relays
- ANSI code for numerical relays
- Motors faults represented by numerical relays
- Generator faults represented by numerical relays
- Fault current limiter
- Standards
- Test plan development
- Test equipment
- Closed loop versus open loop testing
- Examples of test plans
- Commissioning test sheets
- Approach
- Tools
- Examples
- The digital substation
- Introduction to the IEC 61850 Standard
- Engineering of protection system using IEC 61850
- Testing of power system protection systems based on IEC 61850
- Points of attention when applying IEC 61850 Standard
- Conformance
- Worked examples
- Unconventional instrument transformers
- Adaptive protections
- Wide area protection
- IEC 61850
- The digital substation
- Distribution automation
- Impact of renewable energy sources on classical protection concepts
- Protection of wind turbines
- Protection of solar power plants
- Separate standard for PV fuses
- Worked examples
End of the workshop
IN HOUSE AND ONLINE TRAINING
While both In-House and Online training can present with cost-effectiveness and time-efficacy, there are some very specific differences between in-house courses and those based online.
The demand for additional courses by individuals or groups of people is increasing. Still, it depends entirely on the preferences of a person what type of training he or she wants to receive. Online courses and in-house training carry some similarities but they are considered to exhibit some very pivotal differences too. Despite that, both types of learning can be really beneficial for attendees.
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