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EE40185: Power system protection

Follow this link for further information on academic years Academic Year: 2016/7
Further information on owning departmentsOwning Department/School: Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Further information on credits Credits: 6      [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Further information on notional study hours Notional Study Hours: 120
Further information on unit levels Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Further information on teaching periods Period:
Semester 1
Further information on unit assessment Assessment Summary: EX 100%
Further information on unit assessment Assessment Detail:
  • Examination (EX 100%)
Further information on supplementary assessment Supplementary Assessment:
EE40185 - Mandatory Extra Work (where allowed by programme regulations)
Further information on requisites Requisites:
Further information on descriptions Description: Aims:
To provide students with an insight and an understanding of power system protection applications.

Learning Outcomes:
After completing this module, students should be able to: divide a power system network into manageable units suitable for protection. Design a non-unit protection scheme for distribution feeders and determine appropriate relay settings. Design unit protection schemes. Explain the characteristics and limitations of protection primary transducers. Design a distance protection scheme for transmission line circuits. Explain the design and operation of digital transmission line protection.

Skills:
Application of the information, techniques and methods discussed in the lectures to protect electrical power supply systems.

Content:
The protection overlay: Protection and metering transducers. Fuses. Overcurrent protection: relay types, operating characteristics and equations, grading, applications. Differential protection: voltage balance and circulating current schemes, biased characteristics and high impedance schemes. Applications to the protection of transformers, feeders and busbars. Distance protection: basic principle, block average comparator, zones of protection, residual compensation, power swing blocking. Digital protection: relay hardware. Digital signal processing in protection relays. Digital distance protection. Digital differential protection.
Further information on programme availabilityProgramme availability:

EE40185 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
  • TEEE-AFM01 : MSc Electrical Power Systems
  • UEEE-AFM12 : MEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering (Year 4)
  • UEEE-AKM12 : MEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 5)

EE40185 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
  • UEEE-AFM01 : MEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Year 4)
  • UEEE-AKM01 : MEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 5)

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