Day 1:

8:30 – 8:45           Welcoming and Introduction - Dr. Abdurrahim El-Keib, Professor and Director of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
8:45 – 9:00           Introduction and Course Outline – Dr. Adly Girgis
9:00 – 9:45           POWER SYSTEM COMPONENTS MODELING

• Generators/motors
• Transformers
• Transmission lines
• Examples

9:45 – 10:30         SYMMETRICAL FAULTS

• Three-phase short circuit
• Fault current calculation using Zbus
• The selection of circuit breakers
• Examples

10:30 – 10:40      Break

10:40 – 12:00      SYMMETRICAL COMPONENTS

• Sequence components
• Sequence networks
• Examples

12:00 – 1:00         Lunch

1:00 – 3:00           UNSYMMETRICAL FAULTS

• Single-line-to ground fault
• Line-to-line fault

3:00 – 3:10           Break

3:10 – 5:00           UNSYMMETRICAL FAULTS (contd.)

• Double-line-to ground fault
• Open conductor
• Examples

Day 2:

8:30 – 10:00         PROTECTIVE DEVICES CHARACTERISTICS

• Fuses
• Fuses coordination and selection
• Practical examples on fuses selection and coordination
• Transformer fusing
• Automatic circuit reclosers
• Reclosers rating and control
• Examples on reclosers coordination

10:20 – 10:30      Break

10:30 – 12:00      PROTECTIVE DEVICES CHARACTERISTICS (contd.)

• Relays:
• Electromechanical relays
• Solid state relays
• Microprocessor bases relays
• OC relays and exercises
• Examples on relays coordination

12:00 – 1:00         Lunch

1:00 – 3:00           BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MICROPROCESSOR BASED RELAYS

• Fourier-based algorithms
• Linear estimation-based algorithms
• Differential equation-based algorithms

3:00 – 3:10           Break

3:10 – 5:00           BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MICROPROCESSOR BASED RELAYS (contd.)

• Pitfalls in FFT
• Aliasing
• Leakage
• Picket fence effect

Day 3:

8:30 – 10:00         TRANSFORMER PROTECTION:

• Factors affecting transformer protection
• Magnetizing inrush current
• Magnetizing inrush current harmonics
• Sympathetic inrush current
• Protection against incipient faults
• Differential protection of Δ /  transformers        
• Differential protection of multi-winding transformers
• Gas detection
• Sudden pressure 
• Transformer overcurrent protection 
• Principles of differential protection
• Examples and practical systems

10:00 – 10:10      Break

10:10 – 12:00      GENERATOR PROTECTION

• Generators internal faults
• System disturbances and operational hazards
• Typical protection of direct connected generators
• Connection of generator protection
• Turn to turn fault protection
• Examples
• Back up protection
• Ground fault protection
• Rotor protection
• Loss of excitation protection

12:00 – 1:00         Lunch

1:00 – 3:00           EXAMPLES ON GENERATOR PROTECTION AND MOTOR PROTECTION

• Potential motor hazards
• Motor characteristics involved in protection
• Induction motor equivalent circuit
• General motor protection
• Phase-fault protection
• Differential protection
• Ground-fault protection
• Thermal and locked-rotor protection
• Locked-rotor protection for large motors (21)
• System unbalance and motors

3:00 – 3:10           Break

3:10 – 5:00           EXAMPLES ON GENERATOAR PROTECTION AND MOTOR PROTECTION (contd.)

• Unbalance and phase rotation protection
• Undervoltage protection
• Bus transfer and reclosing
• Repetitive starts and jogging protection
• Multifunction microprocessor motor protection units
• Synchronous motor protection
• Summary: typical protection for motors
• Practical considerations of motor protection
• Examples

Day 4:

8:30 – 10:00         BUS PROTECTION

• Bus faults
• Bus protection requirement
• Bus differential protection for different bus arrangements
• Examples

10:00 – 10:10      Break

10:10 – 12:00      SYSTEM STABILITY AND OUT OF STEP RELAYING

• Steady state stability
• Transient stability
• Equal area criterion

12:00 – 1:00         Lunch

1:00 – 3:00           SYSTEM STABILITY AND OUT OF STEP RELAYING (contd.)

• Relay operation and transient stability condition
• Impedance measured by relays during power swing
• Out of step detection by distance relays

3:00 – 3:10           Break

3:10 – 5:00           STABILITY AND OUT OF STEP RELAYING (contd.)
(vii)         Synchrophasors based out of step relays
                                (viii)        Under frequency load shedding

• Under voltage load shedding

                                (x)           Examples

Day 5:

8:30 – 10:00         PROTECTION OF RADIAL FEEDERS

• Coordination of protective devices
• Radial line protection strategy
• Clearing temporary faults
• Clearing permanent faults
• Recloser-fuse coordination
• OC relays coordination
• Phase and ground relays
• Procedure for instantaneous relay setting
• Examples and exercises

10:00 – 10:10      Break

10:10 – 12:00      TRANSMISSION LINE PROTECTION

• Over current protection
• OC protection of radial lines
• OC protection of loop with one source
• OC protection of multiple loop systems
• Examples and exercises

12:00 – 1:00         Lunch

1:00 – 3:00           DISTANCE PROTECTION OF TRANSMISSION LINES

• How V/I=Z makes a distance relay
• Distance relay characteristics
• Protection zones of distance relays
• Practical examples and exercises

3:00 – 3:10           Break

3:10 – 5:00           PILOT PROTECTION SYSTEMS

• Principles and applications
• Pilot protection systems
• General concepts of pilot communication
• Unit protection pilot schemes
• Single phase comparison blocking
• Dual phase comparison unblocking
• Examples and exercises

• COURSE SUMMARY, FEEDBACK AND EVALUATION