Modern Power System Protection

Modern Power System Protection guides the reader through all of the principles of modern protection systems and schemes in the smart grid era.

The authors provide a comprehensive guide to protection principles, before examining digital systems and equipment used for modern protection schemes. They then discuss the new protection paradigms that are emerging due to the application of Synchronized Measurement Technology, involving Phasor Measurement Units, Data Concentrators and new Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control (WAMPAC) applications.

Key features:

• Surveys new trends such as protection of distributed generation, digital equipment for protection and wide area and adaptive protection concepts.
• Explains the fundamental concepts of protection with numerous worked examples and review questions helping the reader to better understand the models.
• Evaluates the new protection paradigms that are emerging due to the application of renewable energy plant and Synchronized Measurement Technology.
• Book companion website hosts problems and solutions, making it suitable for either self-study or for use on a university course.

Integrating a diverse range of topics into one useful volume, including the latest developments and recent trends, this text provides an effective guideline for students and professionals on many vital protection schemes.

Janaka Ekanayake, Cardiff University, UK Professor Ekanayake is currently at the Institute of Energy at Cardiff University. As module leader on an MSc course, he teaches intelligent electronic devices, their applications and automation. He also teaches power electronic applications to power systems, flexible ac transmission systems and HVDC. Prior to this he was a Research Fellow at University of Manchester. He was promoted to Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2003. Professor Ekanayake has published over 25 papers in refereed journals.

Jayasiri Karunanayake, Resource Management Association, Sri Lanka Mr Karunanayake has worked in the electricity power industry for 40 years. He has been a protection engineer in Sri Lanka and abroad, where he has managed medium voltage distribution protection systems, analyzing system faults and maintaining all protection equipment in the generating stations and transmission systems. He has been a visiting lecturer in power system protection for undergraduate and post graduate courses at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Mr Karunanayake has also served in committees, investigating several total system failures at the invitation of the Sri Lankan utility/regulatory authority. He is a member of IEEE, also the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka.

Vladimir Terzija, University of Manchester, UK Mr Terzija has worked in the field of power system protection for over 25 years, and in the area of WAMPAC for 15 years. He has published over 250 journal and conference papers and is chair of the Cigre WGB5.14 “Wide Area Protection and Control Technologies”. Mr Terzija is a member of several IEEE Working Groups / Task Forces on Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control, and a member of the IEEE Protection Relaying Committee.