Faculty of Engineering and Technology

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ENEE 5306 Protection and Automation in Electrical

Power Systems
2nd semester 2016/2017

Course Objectives
The course aims to identify and examine the main concepts related to the function, design
and operation of protection schemes for distribution, transmission and generation
Course Outline schemes. It aims also to examine the design and operation of selected typical protection
Instructor schemes.
Dr. Mahran Quraan
mquraan@birzeit.edu
Course Content
The following topics will be covered:
Introduction to power system protection
Office Hours Transient stability of power systems
N/A Current and voltage transformers
Differential protection
Teaching Assistant Distance protection
N/A Over-current protection of a radial feeder
Power System Control
Contact Hours
3 credit hours
Textbooks
Lectures: J. Duncan Glover, Mulukutla S. Sarma and Thomas J. Overbye, Power
3 hours x 16 weeks = 48 hours System Analysis and Design, 2009.
Y. G. Paithankar, Fundamentals of Power System Protection, 2003.
Prerequisites: Badri Ram, Power System Protection and Switchgear, 2001.
ENEE 4403 Power systems Power System Protection: Principles and Components, 1995.
C. Russell Mason The Art and Science of Protective Relaying, 1966.
Course Website:
References
N/A http://www.deadsmall.com/2VA Areva Network Protection and Automation
Guide
Paul M. Anderson: Power System Protection (IEEE Press Series on Power
Engineering)
Learning Outcomes
To be able to appreciate the technical and economic justification for the use of
Important Dates protection equipment.
First Exam To be able to explain general protection scheme design, comprising sensors,
Sunday, 02/04/2017
signaling circuits, relays and circuit breakers.
Second Exam To be able to specify the use of current and voltage transformers and
Sunday, 14/05/2017 understand the implications of core saturation, burden, excitation requirements
and equivalent circuit models.
Evaluation To be able to explain the differences between unit and non-unit protection
Hour Exams 45% schemes and understands the requirement for coordination of non-unit
Final Exam 45% protection.
Assignment 10% To be able to carry out grading studies for radial and interconnected systems
using IDMTL relays.
To be able to Explain the operating principles, and application areas, of
distance protection and be able to calculate typical relay settings.
To be able to Explain the application of communications systems to provide
accelerated tripping for distance schemes.
To be able to Explain the operating principles of circulating and voltage
balance differential schemes.
To be able to design typical differential schemes for feeder, transformer and
generator protection.