Expedited Award for Novel Research: A Rethinking of the Selective Protection Problem on the Basis of Up to Date Computer Guided Electric Power System Operation

本研究旨在重新阐述在全系统监测和操纵能力和充分利用数字控制中心的环境下，选择性保护的基本原则(在尽可能短的时间内将故障元件从电力系统中排除，并使声音设备的损失最小)。虽然电力系统网络的性能可以通过利用系统范围的计算机通信技术得到显著改善，但这种发展受到电力行业继续使用前计算机时代技术的阻碍。扎博尔斯基教授的工作将解决选择性保护的基本问题，并研究将充分利用当今计算机通信技术能力的替代新技术方法。如果取得成果，新的方法将改变整个选择性保护行业的进程，该行业规模相当大。

This research is to reformulate the basic principles of selective protection (removal of faulted elements from the power system in the shortest possible time with minimum loss of sound equipment) in the environment of system-wide monitoring and manipulating capability and full utilization of digital control center. Although the performance of a power system network can be improved significantly through the utilization of system-wide computer-communication technology, such development has been hampered by the continued usage of pre-computer age technology by the power industry. Professor Zaborszky's work will address on the fundamental issues of selective protection and examine alternate new technological approaches which will fully utilize today's capability of computer-communication technology. If fruitful, the new approaches would change the course of the entire selective protection industry which is of substantial size.