EEE 135 RELAY PROTECTION OF POWER SYSTEM

Elective Course
2002 2004 Catalog Data: EEE 135. Power System Relay Protection. Principles of relay techniques
(classical and solid state), current and potential transformers and their application in relaying technique,
over-current, differential, impedance, frequency, overvoltage and undervoltage relays, relay protection of
overhead and underground power lines, generators, transformers, motors, buses and computer applications
in relay protection. Prerequisites. EEE 130. 3 units.

Text: Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Applied Protective Relaying, Coral Springs, Florida, 1979
(LCCN 76-8060) and Markovic, M., Relay Protection of Power System, Lecture notes, CSU, Sacramento,
1980-2000.
Support Software: ASPEN Academic Suite: ASPEN One Liner, ASPEN Power Flow, ASPEN Line
Constant Program, Advanced Systems for Power Engineering, Inc., San Mateo, 1989.
Course Objectives:
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Provide students with basic and advanced relay protection of power system components and the
power system itself.
Build upon the theoretical and mathematical/physical analysis of electrical machines: generators,
power transformers, and power transmission lines as well as a comprehensive fault analysis of
power system, without which the relay protection can be neither understood nor applied.
Provide students with an opportunity to practice on ASPEN One Line computer program, which is
widely used n the industry for fault analysis of power system and both relay protection and relay
protection co-ordination.

Prerequisites by Topic:
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Circuit analysis including electric and magnetic circuits.

Power electrical machines: generators, transformers, transmission lines and power systems at large.
Fault analysis of power system.

Topics Covered/Class Schedule/Evaluation:

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Introduction to the engineering philosophy of relay protection used in power systems including
law, medium and high voltage power systems.
Theory and practical application of current and potential transformers in relay protection of power
systems.
Theoretical and engineering description of hardware used in classical relay design.
Over-current relays and their protection of generators, transformers, transmission and distribution
lines including their co-ordinations with ground-fault relays and connections.
Differential relays and their applications in protection of generators, transformers, and buses.
Impedance or distance relays and their application for the overhead and underground power
transmission lines.
Thermal and gas relays and their protection of generators, power transformers and electrical
motors.
Directional relays and principles of their applications in high voltage power systems.

Class Schedule:
Week
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Topic

Introduction to the engineering philosophy of relay

protection used in power systems including law,
medium and high voltage power systems.
Theory and practical application of current and potential
transformers in relay protection of power systems.
Continuation of the above topic

Homework, (H)

Quiz/Exam, (E)

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H

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Theoretical and engineering description of hardware used in

classical relay design.
Over-current relays and their protection of generators,
transformers, transmission and distribution lines, I
including their co-ordinations with ground-fault relays and
connections.
Continuation of the above topic.
Differential relays and their applications in protection of
generators, transformers, and buses.
Continuation of the above topic.
Impedance or distance relays and their application for the
overhead and underground power transmission lines.
Continuation of the above topic.
Thermal and gas relays and their protection of generators,
power transformers and electrical motors.
Directional relays and principles of their applications in high
voltage power systems.
Continuation of the above topic.
Applying EDSA software for relay protection coordination.
Continuation of the above topic.

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16. Final Exam Week.E

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Evaluation:
There eight homework assignments each weighted 100 points. Three quizzes, each are weighted
50 points, are administered in class. There are three tests; two midterms and one final, all of which
are take-home type and each weighted 100 points. Their content is designed to cover the material
covered in
the class until the exam date, while the final exam is a comprehensive type.
The final grade is derived based on the following distribution of individual assignments:
homework, quizzes, midterms, and final exam carry 35%, 25%, 20%, and 20%, respectively.

Contribution of Course to the Professional Education Component:

Homework, quizzes, and tests are designed to apply the theory and train students how to later
understand the advanced software program(s) used in the industry. Since it is an elective course, it
does not have any other but helpful effect on the other courses.
Science and Design Content Distribution: Science 2.5 units, or 83.3%; Design 0.5 unit, or
16.7%.

Relationship of Course to Program Outcomes:

#5. More than one half of the senior students are choosing the topics for their senior projects and
the specialization in this important area of engineering is continuing to prove itself of its worth.
#7. Engineering software tool. By training on the ASPEN One Liner software program, students
are able to understand and use the other similar programs used in the power engineering.

Course Coordinator: Miroslav Markovic, EEE

Date: May 15, 2003