Electric power systems are facing new challenges. Limitations to building new transmission lines and generating stations are reducing security margins. New generation sources and free energy markets are creating variables and less predictable power flows. Blackouts in different countries confirm the need to seek modern protection, control, and monitoring solution.These modern solutions are the focus of this book.
Modern technology provides the tools to meet new power system requirements with reliable and affordable solutions. Modern relays feature advanced protection functions as well as control, monitoring, and communications functions. Today, relays and meters also include time-synchronized measurment abilities. Modern communications technology provides fiber-optic and low-cost radio links and makes precise time available over wide areas. New devices enhance cybersecurity.
A general objective of this book is to bring together all engineers working on power system operation, planning, asset management, maintenance, protection, control, monitoring, and communications. These engineers solve modern power system problems, benefit from the new tools available, and face the challenges of properly applying these tools. This book is suitable for protection, control, communications, and power system engineers, decision - making personnel of electric utilities and industry, and university students and faculty.
Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Chapter 1 : Looking to The Future Chapter 2 : Time - Synchronized Systems Chapter 3 : Distribution System Protection, Automation, and Monitoring Chapter 4 : Transmission Line Protection Chapter 5 : Transformer Protection and Monitoring Chapter 6 : Bus and Breaker - Failure Protection Chapter 7 : Generator Protection and Monitoring Chapter 8 : Wide - Area Protection, Control and Monitoring Chapter 9 : Power System Communications Chapter 10 : Information Processing Chapter 11 : Information Security Chapter 12 : Protection System Reliability and Testing Chapter 13 : Substation Protection, Control and Monitoring System Design Chapter 14 : Using Power System Information