Relay protection and automation of electric power systems

Objective: formation of knowledge about modern means of relay protection and automation as key tools for improving the reliability of power systems in normal and emergency modes.

Content: current transformers and voltage transformers in circuits of relay protection; principles of protection, fixing the deviation of the controlled quantities: current, directional current, distance; the principles of protection, based on comparison of controlled values: differential and differential-phase; protection of the main elements of power systems: high-voltage lines, transformers and autotransformers, generators, motors, buses, shunt capacitor banks; automatically reclosing; automatic activation of reserve; characteristics and operation of modern microprocessor devices of ABB, ALSTOM, EKRA; facilities for testing of relay protection devices and automatics; management system and information collection for the operation of microprocessor devices.

Professional training in English

As part of the discipline are given specific knowledge in the direction of the electric power in the English language.

Automation of Power Systems

The main purpose of the discipline is to prepare graduates to solve problems associated with the control of electric power system and equipment used for it.

The objectives of the discipline development: the formation of knowledge of modern control systems and algorithms as the main means of improving the reliability of power systems in normal and emergency regimes.