Tutorial

13:00 – 17:00   Monday 27 June 2011
ESBI Steven’s Green

Tutorial: Testing Challenges Associated with Complex Integrated Protection and Control Systems
Dr. Alexander Apostolov
Editor-in-Chief, PAC World

Advanced Devices and Systems Functions: The changes in electric power system protection, automation and control devices and systems are described from the point of view of their impact on the improvement of the stability of the system and the quality of power delivered to sensitive customers. Multifunctional intelligent electronic devices and peer-to-peer communications based systems and applications are used to describe their role as components of the Smart Grid.

Requirements for Testing of Advanced Devices and Systems: The testing of advanced devices and systems requires a different set of methods and tools than the ones used in the testing of electromechanical and solid state protection devices. Understanding the requirements can help us in determining what tools and methods should be used. The impact of the reasons for the testing also is discussed. IEC 61850 also requires a significant change in the testing due to the changes in technology used for protection, automation and control applications.

Methods and Tools for Testing of Advanced Devices and Systems: Methods and tools for the testing of advanced functions within a multifunctional IED, local or distributed protection schemes are presented in this segment. Steady-state, dynamic and transient simulation tools are discussed. Top-down, bottom-up and other methods are described. Tools for the testing of IEC 61850 based substation automation and protection systems are also described.

Lecturer:

Dr. Alexander Apostolov received MS degree in Electrical Engineering, MS in Applied  Mathematics and Ph.D. from the Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has worked for fourteen years in the Protection & Control Section of Energoproject Research and Design Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria.
From 1990-94 he was Lead Engineer in the Protection Engineering Group, New York State Electric & Gas where he worked on the protection of the six-phase line, application of microprocessor relays, programmable logic and artificial intelligence in protection. 1994-95 he was Manager of Relay Applications Engineering at Rochester – Integrated Systems Division. 1995-96 he was Principal Engineer at Tasnet. 1996-2006 he was Principal Engineer for AREVA T&D Automation.
He is presently Principal Engineer for OMICRON electronics in Los Angeles, CA.
He is IEEE Fellow and Member of the Power Systems Relaying Committee and Substations C0 Subcommittee. He is the past Chairman of the Relay Communications Subcommittee, serves on multiple IEEE PES Working Groups and is Chairman of Working Group D21: Investigate Supporting of IEC Standard for Distance Relay Characteristics.
Dr. Apostolov has been actively involved for more than 10 years in the development of UCA 2 and IEC 61850. He is member of IEC TC57 Working Groups 10, 17, 18 and 19. He is Chairman of the Technical Publications Subcommittee of the UCA International Users Group.
He is member of CIGRE and works on several CIGRE working groups. He is Convener of working group B5.27 Standard Protection Schemes.
He holds four patents and has authored and presented more than 300 technical papers.
Dr. Apostolov is also the Editor-in-Chief of the PAC World magazine – the global forum of the protection, automation and control industry.