Power System Protection: Applications and Performance Analysis

During this intensive course, you will learn the principles of power system protection leading to an understanding of overall system protection. The course instructors will supplement the lectures on protection practices with presentations of field oscillograms illustrating disturbances that trigger protective action and an analysis of the resulting responses.

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Who Should Attend?

Electric utility engineers involved in applying, simulating, and testing protective relaying devices
Technicians, project managers, managers, and others involved in electric power systems and interfacing with relaying and substation communications and automation

What You Will Learn

Learn the fundamental principles of power system protection.
Discover how misapplied operating procedures can affect human safety.
Understand various protection schemes.

Course Details: RA00045-E413

Course Outline

Introduction to the Course

Course organization
Role of relaying theory
Field experiences

Relaying Fundamentals

The nature of relaying
Relay terminology
Protection system design – redundancy, backup
Relay upgrades
Application of IEC 61850 station bus and process bus

Protection System Accessories

Current transformers
Wire wound and capacitive potential devices
Batteries
Circuit breakers
Teleprotection systems
Human machine interface

Fault level calculations and symmetrical components

Short circuit fault calculations
Symmetrical components and calculations

Distribution Protection - Overcurrent Protection

Principles (why overcurrent protection works)
Neutral grounding
Fuses
Overcurrent relays
Circuit reclosers
Impact of power electronic converter sources

Distribution System Protection

Feeders
Fuse saving
Small tapped substations
High side breakers, circuit switcher, fuses, or nothing
Substation and feeder protection coordination

Non-Pilot Line Protection of Transmission Lines

Relay setting philosophy
3-terminal lines
Setting examples

Pilot Line Protection of Transmission Lines

Communication channels
Directional comparison
Transfer trip
Phase comparison
Wire pilot
Settings

Operating Problems Affecting Human Safety

Miscoordination of relays
Misapplied operating procedures
Equipment failures and arcflash
Backup protection failures

Interpreting Oscillograms

Reading oscillograms
Filtered or unfiltered oscillograms
Examples of various short circuits
Bus differential protection

Bus and Transformer Protection

Bus arrangements
Zone interlocking protection
Bus partial and full differential protection
Magnetizing inrush
Transformer protection
Application examples

Voltage Stability

Description of phenomena
Voltage collapse incidents
Reactive power control
Load shedding

Remedial Action Schemes

Course Schedule

Location and Lodging

Course Location

Pyle Center

702 Langdon Street
Madison, WI 53706

Map

608-262-1122

866-301-1753

Lodging

Fluno Center

601 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706

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Accommodations include: Your stay includes hot breakfast buffet, fitness center, business center, convenient on-site parking. Guest rooms are complete with Keurig coffee maker, refrigerator, complimentary high-speed Internet, and 40-inch, flat screen, high-def TVs.

Online Reservations

608-441-7117

877-773-5866

Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club

One West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53703

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Room: rates start at $160

Accommodations include: Complimentary WiFi, Local/Airport Shuttle, Pool, and Fitness Center.

DoubleTree by Hilton Madison Downtown

525 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53703

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Accommodations include: Enjoy complimentary business center, WiFi and Local/Airport Shuttle. Each room has a refrigerator, microwave, 42-inch HDTV, and executive desk. Parking available $15/night.

Online Reservations

608-251-5511

800-222-8733

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Course Notes

This is a HyFlex (in-person and online) taught course. Please be prepared to attend all days either in-person or online. Contact us if you have any questions or if you need to make a change.

This course uses the Canvas course management and Zoom platforms. Both in-person and online students should have a NetID to access the Canvas site and course materials. Your registration confirmation email will give you instructions on how to create a NetID and log into Canvas.

Please watch the email address you provided for important course updates and information. Check your spam file if you do not see emails from the "wisc.edu" addresses.

Instructors and Program Director

Instructors
John Bettler
Relay Section: Principal Engineer
John Bettler’s responsibilities at Commonwealth Edison include setting all distribution relays (line, bus & transformer), running fault or coordination studies and the field in troubleshooting. He was previously the Cogeneration relay engineer, and has also worked in marketing and on field engineering assignments. John is a registered PE in the state of Illinois and holds a MSEE from IIT and a BSEE from Iowa State.
Russell Patterson
Russell W. Patterson (IEEE SM 2002) received his BSEE degree in 1991 from Mississippi State University in Starkville, MS, his MSEE in 2013 from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, TN, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2024 from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN.
Russell began his career as a field test engineer for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in 1991 and has over 30 years’ experience in utility protection for generation, transmission, and distribution. He was a protection specialist and then managed the System Protection and Analysis department for TVA until his retirement in 2008 to enter full time consulting.
In 2010 Russell founded Patterson Power Engineers (PPE), a consulting firm headquartered in Chattanooga, TN with sixteen protection engineers. In 2021 he sold PPE to Qualus Power Services, Inc. where he now serves part time as an instructor and SME on power system protection.
Russell is a member of the IEEE Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRC) where he is past chairman of the committee, past chairman of the Line Protection subcommittee and a member of the Rotating Machinery subcommittee. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of IET (MIET), a member of CIGRÉ, and a registered professional engineer in multiple states. He is also an adjunct lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the electrical engineering department where he teaches graduate classes and short courses on power system protection.
Russell has authored/co-authored many conference papers on protective relaying and on occasion serves as an expert witness in legal proceedings pertaining to power system protection and analysis.
Program Director
Shalini Bhat

Additional Information

Total Credits:

CEU 2,

PDH 20,

Course Administration

Fee Information

This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.

Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, in-person instruction, and course materials.

Online attendance fee includes online instruction and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.

Payment Options

If you are planning to attend an Interdisciplinary Professional Programs course, payment is required at the time of registration. Below are the payment options:

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Call CERC Registrations at 608-262-2451.
Provide the registrations representative with:
- the course name, dates, and/or course number.
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You will receive either a mailed document or an email to confirm successful enrollment payment.

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Mail in a completed registration form and check payable to UW Madison.

Fill out a registration form (found either in the back of the course brochure you received in the mail or here).
Prepare a check, made payable to UW Madison.
Mail the registration form and check to: CERC Registrations 21 N Park St, Ste 7101 Madison, WI 53715
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You will receive an invoice from UW–Madison Business Services for payment, usually within 3–5 business days

Military

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Event Cancellation

We reserve the right to cancel a course due to insufficient enrollment or unforeseen events. If we cancel a course, participants will be notified via email or phone and will be given the option for a full refund or to transfer their registration and any fees paid to another course. We are not responsible for non-refundable plane tickets, hotel reservations, and other travel related expenses. For enrollee Course Cancellation, refer to notes on course page.

Cancellation Policy

If you cannot attend, please notify us no later than one week before your course begins, and we will refund your fee. Cancellations received after this date and no-shows are subject to a $150 administrative fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.

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Power System Protection: Applications and Performance Analysis

2027 and later

Who Should Attend?

What You Will Learn

Course Details: RA00045-E413

Course Outline

Course Schedule

Location and Lodging

Course Notes

Instructors and Program Director

Additional Information

Course Administration

Fee Information

Payment Options

Pay by Credit Card

Enroll online and pay by credit card.

Enroll over the phone and pay by credit card.

Pay by Check

Mail in a completed registration form and check payable to UW Madison.

Pay by Purchase Order

Military

Event Cancellation

Cancellation Policy

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