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Course Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course the students will be able to:
1. Introduce with the fundamentals
2. Classify and explain circuit breakers
3. Categorize and describe Relays
4. Discuss distance protection scheme and relays
5. State faults and give protection against it for Transformer and Generator
6. Find causes, effects and protections for overvoltage
Unit I: Fundamentals 06
Introduction to switchgear & protection. Faults & abnormal condition. FUSE-
definition, types, characteristics, application and selection. Fault clearing process.
Trip circuit. Operating mechanism. Interlocks, indication & auxiliary switch.
Circuit breaker time. Auto Reclosure. C.T. & P. T. Total CT burden calculation.
Numericals.
Text Books:
1) Power System Protection and Switchgear: B.Ram and D.N. Vishwakarma
2) Switchgear Protection and Power systems: Sunil.S. Rao, Khanna Publications
Reference Books
1) Power System Protection and Switchgear: Oza/Nair/Mehta/Makwana
2) Switchgear and Protection: M.V. Deshpande
3) Power System Protection and Switchgear:- B. Ravindrnath