Digital Power System Protection

This book presents the fundamental principles of modern schemes of power system protection. It is designed as a textbook for undergraduate students of electrical engineering and postgraduate students specializing in power engineering. It would also be useful to research scholars and practising power engineers. Beginning with a discussion on conventional types of relays and general relaying schemes, this text maintains a consistent, logical flow of subject matter throughout, offering state-of-the-art topics such as microprocessor-based digital relaying schemes, fibre optic-based relaying and microwave relaying. It explains digital schemes of protection of transformers and generators, power system networks as well as mains failure protection. In addition, it provides probable solutions to electric power system failures and places special emphasis on power system management.

KEY FEATURES

• Covers subject concepts in considerable depth and detail.
• Includes chapter-end exercises to reinforce applicability of concepts and their understanding.
• Provides more than a hundred objective type questions with answers at the end of the book to help students in preparing for the competitive examinations.
• Offers a long list of research papers in chronological order to acquaint the researchers with the developments in the field.

About the Author

RAVINDRA P. SINGH is Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Apeejay College of Engineering, Gurgaon. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. He has more than eighteen years of teaching and research experience. A recipient of the President of India Prize, Dr. Singh has published many research papers in national and international journals.