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Department of EEE

Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET)


Course Title:
Course ID: Contact Hours B. Sc.
Switchgear and Protection Credit: 3 .00
EE 4203 Engineering
(Prerequisite Course: EE 4103) per week: 3
Course Teachers:

(1) Professor Dr. Md. Rafiqul Islam(2), Room No. EEE 214, EEE Building, KUET
Email:rafiq043@yahoo.com, Phone. 769471-321

(2) Professor Dr. Md. Salah Uddin Yusuf, Room No. EEE 211, EEE building, KUET
Email: ymdsalahu2@gmail.com, Phone. 769471-325
Course Objectives: The main objectives of this course are:
 To understand the principle of protective schemes and various faults in the Power System
Scenario.
 To examine protection of power system with various protection relays.
 To study the various types of the circuit breakers, the arc quenching phenomena and the
protection against over voltages.
 To introduce the students to different types of circuit breakers and protective relays for
protecting power system equipments.
 Concept and working of different types of relays
 Protection schemes for various power system components
 Characteristics and use of fuse
 Protection from lighting
The above aims will be achieved efficiently through a series of lectures and tutorial classes under
controlled guidance and supervision.

Intended Learning Outcome: After completion of this course the learning outcomes of students can
be divided as follows :
A) Knowledge and Understanding:
 Describe the high voltage switchgear engineering and insulation characteristics.
 Define the power system phenomena in steady state, and transients.
 Define power system protection equipments.
 Describe the design of protection schemes.
B) Intellectual Skills:
 Analyzing the engineering problems.
 Illustrating the different solution alternatives for the engineering problems.
 Comparing the solution alternatives and choosing the optimum one.
 Comparing the acceptable solutions of problems based on physical and operational limits of
power system components.
 Comparing between a solution based on a given system state to the system behavior at
different states
C) Professional and Practical Skills:
 Constructing suitable switchgear and protection schemes for different components in electric
power systems such as: electric machines, transmission and distribution systems, power
transformers, control systems, measuring instruments, insulators, etc.
 Conducting research
D) General and Transferable Skills:
 Write technical reports and conduct presentation about power system problems in normal
operating conditions.
 Working in a team.

Course Syllabus:

Circuit breakers: Types, ratings, constructions and selections, arc extinction, maintenance, testing
and recovery voltage.
Fuse: Commercially available fuses, their construction, characteristics and applications.
Relays: Types, construction, principle and operating characteristics of over current, IDMT, reactance,
directional, power and impedance relays, balanced current relaying of parallel line, ground fault
Department of EEE
Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET)
relaying, pilot relaying principles, solid state relays, protection relay schemes for generators,
transformers, lines, feeders, buses, motor, generator and power systems, reactors, lightning arrestors,
surge absorbers, ground wire, generators grounding, co-ordination of over current relay. Digital
relaying and applications. Bus bar system and reactors: Simple bus bar, double bus bar, ring bus bar,
reactors.

Lectures (Tentative): To be covered by Dr. Yusuf

Sl Topics to be discussed Required Lectures


1. Importance and Requirements of Protective system Fundamental of
Switchgear and basic of powers system, Duties and responsibilities of 02
power system engineers
2. Switchgear equipments, their application , working environments
02
operating sequences
3. Arc, Formation of arc, Elementary principles of arc interruption,
02
Recovery, Restricking Voltage - Restricking Phenomenon,
4. Average and Max. RRRV, Numerical Problems. 02
5. Current Chopping and Resistance Switching. 02
6. CB ratings and Specifications, Auto-reclosures. 01
7. Different types of CB, their construction, rating, operation and
04
applications with relevant advantages and disadvantages
8. Desirable characteristics of Fuse Elements, Important terms in Fuses,
Types of Fuses, HRC fuse, Fuses and their performance in power 03
system with application
9. Relay coordination 02

Teaching Methodology:
 White board
 Power point presentation
 Question-answers in the class
 Assignments
 Handouts

Evaluation Strategy:
 Class Test
 Attendance
 Assignments
 Final exam, etc. as declared by the course teacher.

Text Book :
1. Sunil S Rao, “Switchgear and Protection” 12th ed., Khanna Publlishers.
2. Badari Ram, “Power System Protection and Switchgear”, D.N Viswakarma, TMH
Publications.
Other reference books:
1. T S Madhav Rao, “Power System Protection : Static Relays”, Tata MC Graw-Hill,.
2. CL Wadhwa, “Electrical Power Systems”, New Age international (P) Limited,.
3. Paithankar and S.R.Bhide., “Fundamentals of Power System Protection”, Prentice Hall, India.
4. Uppal.S.L. “Electrical Power”, Khanna Publishers; New Delhi,.
5. V.K. Mehta, “Principle of power system”, Prentice Hall, India .

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