Switching & Protection
Why are protection systems required and how are protection functions implemented? This course covers both technical and economic aspects of protection while providing an overview of the main concepts associated with the protection of distribution systems. Faults, methods of detecting and approach to isolating faults from the system are covered.
This course presents differences between UK, European, and North American distribution system practices and implications on protection system design.
Course content
This course will focus on these topics:
- Why are protection systems required?
- Power system performance during faults: voltage, current, fault level
- Fault level calculations
- Overview of system earthing and brief review of different earthing practices in different parts of the world
- Economics and technical aspects and justification for protection
- What is power system protection – components, types of protection
- Performance parameters of any protection system: speed, discrimination, stability, etc.
- Fault isolation: circuit breakers (interrupters), switches, sectionalizers, fuses
- General protection scheme design, comprising sensors, signalling circuits, relays and circuit breakers.
Modes of delivery
You have the option to study this course online or as a classroom based course.
Classroom-based
The course can be one to four days in length depending upon your needs. By adding successive days the course will contain more detail and challenge you further.
Online flexible training
Each module has approximately 10 hours of content. We run 12 week individual and cohort-based programmes.