Power system protection and switchgear plays a crucial role in establishing reliable electrical power systems. Improperly designed protection systems can lead to major power failures. Due to the increasing dependency of electricity, such power failures can have a serious impact on society and the economy. Application knowledge of power system-protection is key when it comes to optimizing the reliability level of electrical infrastructure. With the advances in protection and communication technology in recent decades plus the strong increase of renewable energy sources, the design and operation of power system protection systems has become ever more challenging. The course provides an up-to-date presentation of the role of protective relays in protecting the power system equipment. It provides a theoretical summary along with examples of real-life engineering applications to a variety of technical problems, thereby bridging the gap between the theoretical advances, experimental validations, and practical engineering.
Basics of Electrical Protection System
This course is part of Power System: Generation, Transmission and Protection Specialization
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There are 5 modules in this course
This module offers overview of the protection schemes and evolution of Protective relays.
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18 videos1 assignment
This module gives brief about Current Transformer and Voltage Transformer i.e. Instrument Transformers along with its in depth working principle.
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19 videos1 assignment
This module deals with Overcurrent Protection, its working principles and application, and relay setting principles.
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15 videos1 assignment
This module deals with Differential Protection and System grounding protective relaying, its working principles and application, and relay setting principles.
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14 videos1 assignment
This module deals with Motor Protection, its working principles and application, and relay setting principles.
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Reviewed on Nov 29, 2024
It's a great course. There are just some minor errors in some lesson's content. In some lessons the professor is saying something but the content shown doesn't match.
Reviewed on May 31, 2023
It was amazing for the experience to explore there self in the Electrical Field.
Reviewed on Sep 5, 2023
the knowledge i got from this was great. This course helped me to gain some important points and the to get perfect identity about basic electrical protection systems
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