Deregulation, increased loads, and limited resources/rights-of-way available for the building of new transmission lines are routinely pushing modern power transmission networks to operating limits. New generations of microprocessor relays provide design opportunities that help stressed transmission networks meet protection requirements. To verify that increasingly complex microprocessor relays ...

Current and voltage transducers provide instrument level signals to protective relays. Protective relay accuracy and performance are directly related to the steady state and transient performance of the instrument transformers. Protective relays are designed to operate in a shorter time than the time period of the transient disturbance during a system fault. Large instrument transformer transie...

The increase in the line complexity, confi guration and the power transmitted has introduced a number of problems in relation to protection. New techniques have become necessary to tackle these problems. Firstly it has become necessary to see that lines are not unnecessarily disconnected, but at the same time shorter operating times from protective relays are demanded on faulted sections to pre...

In this paper, Ultra-wideband (UWB) multiple access relay channel with correlated noises at the relay and receiver is investigated. We obtain outer and inner bounds for the IEEE 802.15.3a UWB multiple access relay channel, and also, a diversity gain bound. Finally, we evaluate some results numerically and show that noise correlation coefficients play important role in determining relay position.

All algorithms for impedance calculation use an analog-to-digital converter. The high accuracy of the impedance seen by a distance relay is an important factor in the correct isolation of the faulty part of power systems. To achieve this, a novel&#10technique based on third order interpolation is used in this paper. According to this technique, the times and the values of the obtained samples a...

Corporate adoption of information technology (IT) infrastructure is a critical management issue that may be affected by national culture. Prior research has shown that dimensions of national culture affect development of national IT infrastructure as well as adoption and impact of IT applications. This study explores the impact of two dimensions of national culture (uncertainty avoidance and po...

This paper presents a novel methodology for testing modern protective relays. Its primary focus is a distance relay. The proposed methodology consists of both design and application testing. Design testing is aimed at assessing predictive relay behavior by measuring its real operating characteristic. Application testing has the form of transient testing and it is aimed at assessing the random a...

This paper deal with an analytical and simulation of the application of distance relay for the protection of line transmission high voltage 220 kV employing series capacitors compensating devices. A detailed modelling of series compensated (SC) is proposed and integrated in transmission system. The studies also include different challenges which the protection engineer may face such as current ...