Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Protective Relays for Power Systems

Dr. Mladen Kezunovic is Eugene E. Webb Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, as well as Director of their Smart Grid Center. He is also Site Director of the National Science Foundation's Power System Engineering Research Center. Dr. Jinfeng Ren is currently Power System Engineer at Alstom Grid in Pullman, Washington. He has authored numerous articles in scholarly journals focusing on Power System Frequency Estimation and Synchrophasors. Dr. Saeed Lotfifard is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University. His research interests include Power Systems Protection and Control, Cyber-physical Energy Systems, Smart Grid Modeling, Distribution Automation and Signal Processing in Power Systems.

• Introduction.- Power system fault analysis and short circuit computations.- Basics of protective relaying and design principles.- Modeling of digital relay and power system signals.- Design and implementation of relay communication schemes and trip logic.- Design and implementation of overcurrent, pilot, and distance protection.- Testing of digital protective relays.