Power System Protection, Automation and Monitoring

电力工业正处于一个非常变化的时期。电力公司面临着提高运营效率的压力，同时面临着日益分散的商业和运营环境，不同的公司处理过去由一家公司处理的发电，输电和配电功能。与此同时，现代电力系统的运行更接近其稳定性和设计极限。整合可再生能源和插电式电动汽车的愿望改变了输电和配电层面的电力系统结构。这种结构和运行实践的变化迫切需要新的和改进的技术和电力系统保护，自动化和监测技术，以保持和提高电力系统的可靠性，安全性和效率。 现有的保护系统并不总是适合电力系统的结构变化和新的操作理念所带来的挑战。拟议研究的目标是开发创新技术，技术和设备，用于现代和新兴电力系统的保护，自动化和监测。该研究旨在实现新兴配电系统的可靠和安全保护，改进同步相量的测量，开发新的经济的后备保护策略，以及在系统恢复期间开发有效的保护。除了改善电力系统的运行电力公用事业，研究也是有意义的高科技，电力设备制造商和继电器制造业。拟议的研究将有助于发展和培训加拿大电力公用事业和工业迫切需要的高素质人才，这是加拿大经济的重要组成部分。

The electric power industry is undergoing a period of extraordinary change. Electric power utilities are under pressure to operate more efficiently while confronting a business and operating environment that's increasingly fragmentedwhere different companies handle generation, transmission, and distribution functions that in the past were handled by one company. At the same time, modern power systems are being operated closer to their stability and design limits. The desire to integrate renewable energy resources and plug-in electric vehicles has changed the structure of power systems at the transmission and distribution levels. This change in structure and operating practices has necessitated an urgent need for new and improved techniques & technologies for power systems protection, automation and monitoring so that reliability, safety and efficiency of the power systems can be maintained and enhanced. Existing protection systems are not always suitable for the changing structure of power systems and the challenges posed by new operating philosophies. The objective of the proposed research is to develop innovative techniques, technologies and devices for the protection, automation and monitoring of modern and emerging power systems. The research will aim at achieving reliable and secure protection of emerging distribution systems, improving measurement of synchronized phasors, developing a new and economical back-up protection strategy, in addition to developing effective protection during system restoration. In addition to improved power system operation of electric utilities, the research is also significant for the high-tech, power equipment manufacturers and relay manufacturing industries. The proposed research will contribute towards developing and training highly qualified personnel who are urgently needed by the Canadian electric utilities and industries, which are an important part of the Canadian economy.