Tuesday, April 3 – General Session
Morning
- CCVT Transient Fundamentals
- Using Few Synchrophasors for System Reduction and Fault Location
- Modern Protective Relay Engineering Applications: Notable Electric Power Utility Events, Challenges, & Concerns
- The Affect of Vegetation Caused Faults on Distribution System Reliability
- Wide-Area Ethernet Network Configuration for System Protection Messaging
Afternoon
Transmission Track
- CVT Transients Revisited – Distance, Directional Overcurrent, and Communications-Assisted Tripping Concerns
- Adaptive HV Transmission Line Reclosing
- Backup Considerations for Line Current Differential Protection
- Do System Impedances Really Affect Power Swings – Applying Power Swing Protection Elements Without Complex System Studies
- 500 kV IPT Breaker Failure Protection
Distribution Track
- Simplifying Protection System Design for Distribution SubstationsM
- Distributed Generation and Its Impact on Power Grid and Microgrid Protection
- High-Speed Communication-Assisted Tripping and Sectionalizing for Distribution Systems
- Adaptive Protection of Distribution Systems
- Distance Protection in Distribution Systems: How It Assists With Integrating Distributed Resources
Industrial Track
- Optical Arc Flash Protection: Real World Experience
- Analysis of Selected Motor Event and Starting Reports
- Fundamentals and Advancements in Generator Synchronizing Systems
- One Plant, One System: Benefits of Integrating Process and Power Automation
- Practical Applications of Peer-to-Peer Messaging in Industrial Facilities
Wednesday, April 4 – General Session
- Review of the Breaker Failure Protection Practices in Utilities
- Validating Transmission Line Impedances Using Known Event Data
Communications Track
- Reviewing Smart Grid Standards for Protection, Control, and Monitoring Applications
- Improving Reliability of the Power-Line-Carrier Channels for Protection Relaying Functions
- Applying Radio Communication in Distributed Generation Teleprotection Schemes
- Pilot Relaying Communications: Will Ethernet/IP Provide the Dependability and Security Required?
- P&C Engineering Concepts Applied to Cyber Security of the Power Grid
Forensics and Testing
- A Guide to Transformer Digital Fault Recording Analysis
- Automated Fault Location System for Nonhomogeneous Transmission Networks
- Effective and Efficient Testing of Multifunctional Protection IEDs
- Testing Considerations for Line Current Differential Schemes
- Using COMTRADE Records to Test Protective Relays
Substations
- Achieving Optimum Capacitor Bank Protection and Control
- Stray Flux and its Influence on Protective Relays
- Capacitor Bank Protection for Simple and Complex Configurations
- Implementation of a Transformer Monitoring Solution Per IEEE C57.91-1995 Using an Automation Controller
- Innovative Protection Scheme for H Configuration Fuseless Grounded Shunt Capacitor Bank
Thursday, April 5 – General Session
- Can End-to-End Testing Satisfy NERC / FERC?
- Calculating the Loadability of Distance Relays
- Redundancy in Coupling Power Line Carrier Channels to the Power Line
- Implementing NERC Guidelines for Coordinating Generator and Transmission Protection
- Features of Reliable Generating Unit Protection and Breaker Controls