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Fundamentals of
Power System
Protection
Who Should Attend?
Technical personnel who are involved in the design,
installation, operation and maintenance of protection
systems for electricity networks, such as

Power System Planners

Power System Protection Engineers
Field Technicians
Circuitry and Automation Engineers
Power System Managers and Technical Officers
Communication Engineers
Construction and Project Managers
Power System O&M Engineers
Power System Consultants

ADELAIDE,

11-12 Nov 2010

Hotel Grand Chancellor on Hindley

SYDNEY,

18-19 Nov 2010

Rydges World Square

WELLINGTON, NZ,
Duxton Hotel Wellington
8.30 am - 4.30 pm

25-26 Nov 2010

Fundamentals of Power System Protection

Overview
Reliable protection systems are integral to electricity networks whether they be within industrial, distribution or
transmission net works. The requirements of safety, minimisation of damage to faulted plant, minimisation of consequential
damage to healthy plant and maintenance of a stable and secure supply of electricity are paramount to all
protection designs. A reliable protection scheme needs to be both dependable and secure. A dependable scheme thus
has a very high level of certainty of operating correctly for all faults within its zone of coverage. Conversely, a secure
scheme has a very high level of cert ainty of not operating incorrectly under any circumstances, especially in the
presence of faults and disturbances external to its zone of coverage. These two requirements of dependability and
security are thus conflicting.
To meet both of t hese requirements, the protection systems need, simultaneously, to be coordinated, fast operating,
secure and dependable. The provision of these conflicting requirements is fundamental to the National Electricity Rules
(NE R) which regulates the performance of protection systems and ensures inter-regional power flows are not
constrained and that power system stability is maintained.
Thus the task, not only of the protection engineer, but of all engineers and technicians associated with power
systems, is to ensure that planning, design, coordination, implementation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of
protection systems optimises both the dependability and security of these schemes.

What Will You Learn?

This seminar is specifically designed to provide an in-depth understanding of the fundamental principles of protection design.
This is far more than a basic course and is specifically designed to meet the learning requirements of those who presently
have only a very basic knowledge of protection principles, while also providing valuable insights to those who are more
experienced in the area of protection design.
This seminar will assist both those whose day-to-day work involves them in the application of protection design, coordination and relay
setting, and also those in less directly associated areas of electricity system design. This seminar has been prepared specifically to
meet the requirements of :

Planning Engineers, to identify the difficulties in providing protection for various power system configurations under review
Maintenance Engineers, to ensure that system protection is not compromised as plant is removed from service during
maintenance
Circuitry Design Engineers, to ensure that protective schemes are implemented in a manner to provide optimum performance
Commissioning Engineers, to ensure the actual field installation of the protection scheme and associated relay settings meets the
design requirements.
Field Technicians, to understand the importance of their role in installing, testing and maintaining effective, reliable, dependable
and secure protection systems.
Protection Design Engineers, to identify protection implications and to ensure design, coordination and relay setting principles
provide the necessary levels of speed, security, dependability and safety.

Course Leaders Profile

Barrie Moor has been involved in the design, coordination and implementation of protection schemes
associated with Queenslands HV & EH V Transmission Systems since 1981. He has held various positions
relating to the protection of the Southern, Central & Northern regions of the Queensland Transmission
system. Barrie also has extensive experience with the protection of large generating plants. From 2000 to 2007,
Barrie filled the role of Senior Engineer Protection Design as team leader of Powerlinks Protection Design
Team. Now in the role of Principal Consultant Substation Protection, Barrie provides specialist Protection
Design and Fault Analysis services to support the Substation Design Teams, the Asset Management Group, and
Asset Maintenance Groups within Powerlink.
Barrie has more than 15 years experience within Australia and internationally in the provision of university post graduate training on
the design and implementation of HV & EH V Transmission Protection Systems. He has presented a number of papers on specialised
aspects of protection design at conferences both within Australia and internationally.
Barrie has RPEQ registration with the Board of Professional Engineers Queensland. He also represents Powerlink on CIGRE
committee APB5, Power System Protection & Automation, and is a corresponding member of Cigre and IEE working groups on Protection Systems.

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COURSE CONTENTS
1. Fundamental Concepts

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Dependability vs Security
Redundancy & Duplication
Zones of Protection
Unit and Non-unit Schemes
Local & Remote Back up
CB Fail and Blind Spot Protection

2. Fault Calculations & Sequence Compone nts

Basic Considerations for 1, 2 & 3 Phase Faults
Earth Faults and Transformer Phase Shifts
Phase-Phase Faults and Transformer Phase Shifts
Per Unit System Calculations
Sequence Components and 1, 2 & 3 Phase Faults
Sequence Components and Transformer Phase Shifts
Resistive Earth Faults
Transformers and Zero Sequence Modeling
3. Over Current & Earth Fa ult Protection
Time & Current Discrimination
Relay Characteristics to IEC60255
Coordination Procedure
Instantaneous Elements
Grading Margins
Fuses and Relay Coordination
Directional Relays
Ring Mains Systems
Earth Fault Protection
Star/Delta Transformers and OC Protection Grading
Parallel Transformer and OC Protection Grading
Bus OC Protection
Sequential Operation of OC Relays
Resetting of OC Relays
4. Voltage and Current Transformers
AS60044 Specification of VTs
VT Transient Performance
Capacitor VTs
Class P & PX CTs to AS60044
Transient Performance of CTs
5. Distance Protection : Fundamental
Considerations
Relay Zones of Operation
Switched and Non-Switched relays
Amplitude Comparators
Phase Angle Comparators
Impedance and Mho Characteristics
Quadrilateral Characteristics
Load Transfer Requirements
Residual Compensation for Earth Faults
6. Protection Signalling
Distance Relay Permissive Schemes
Distance Relay Blocking Schemes
Direct and Series Intertripping
Power Line Carrier Systems

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Distance Protection : Application

Considerations
Mutual Coupling
Teed Feeders
Fault Resistance
VT Supervision
Power Swing Blocking

8. High Impedance Differential Protection

Determination of Setting Voltage
Current and Voltage Operated Relays
Metrosils
CT Supervision
Application to Plant other than Busbars
9. Transformer Protection
Buchholz and Pressure Relief Devices
Biased Differential Protection
Inrush and Magnetising Currents
CT Connections for Phase Correction
CT Connections for Zero Sequence Current
Compensation
CT Ratio Selection
Microprocessor Based Relay Applications
Determination of Bias Settings
10. Low Impedance Busbar Differential Protection
Relay Characteristics
Multiple Bus zones
Dynamically Switched Bus Zones
Check Zones and Voltage Interlocking
CB Fail Protection
11. Feeder Differential Protection
Pilot Wire Protection
Summation transformers
Pilot Supervision and Isolation
Current Differential Protection
Digital Signalling
Data Synchronisation
Single and Dual Communication Schemes
Daisy Chained Schemes
12. Auto Reclosing Concepts
Dead Time and Reclaim time
Single Pole Schemes
Three Pole Schemes
Sectionalisers
Blocking of Auto Reclosing
Live Line and Live Substation Work
13. Protection of Capacitor Banks
In-rush Currents
Can and Bank Components and Design
Balance Protection Schemes
Over Voltage Protection

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