Simulation and Analysis of Power System Transients

using EMTP
December 7 to 11, 2015
Course Objectives
The objective of this course is to give to beginner and intermediate participants a
good hands-on experience on the simulation and analysis of power systems
transients in general. The course is based on the usage of EMTP (V3.1-2015a-
RV) (www.emtp.com) for demonstrating concepts and teaching through practical
problem cases. EMTP contributes greatly to the simplification of complex power
system studies and to the visualisation and accurate simulation of large systems.

Who Should Attend

EMTP users that want to increase their level of knowledge on the software usage
and applications.
Engineering personnel familiar with the basics of electric power system analysis
that need to get more in-depth practical knowledge of power system transients
simulation and analysis in areas such as:
 Insulation coordination of HV substations and transmission lines;
 Electromagnetic and electromechanical transients;
 Practical system studies

Course Structure
The duration of the course is 5 days.

Each participant will have access to a personal computer to learn about

presented topics and to analyze available practical examples.

The course starts at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. every day.
Lunch breaks are from noon to 1:00 p.m.

Course Location
 Speakers

Doug Mader, eng

is a retired utility engineer with more than 40 years of experience in power
systems. Doug Mader began his career at the Nova Scotia Power Corporation.
During his career at NSPC, he rose to the position of vice president of
Engineering of NS Power Services. He moved to Entergy Transmission Business
in June of 1998 as Director of Value Engineering and in 2000 took over
responsibility for all Transmission Business Engineering, project management,
and construction functions. In October 2007, he was appointed Director of IT
Infrastructure and Enterprise Services. Mader has been involved in
Electromagnetic Transients Simulation for 30 years and has been a faculty
member in numerous EMTP courses over this period.

Jean Mahseredjian, Ph.D., IEEE Fellow

Professor
École Polytechnique de Montréal
Québec, Canada
Jean Mahseredijan has more than 25 years of research and development
experience, having spent 17 years at the Institut de Recherche d’Hydro-Québec
(IREQ) specializing in electromagnetic transient simulation and analysis. He is
the creator and main developer of EMTP.
 Course Outline
Day 1
1. Introduction to the program
a. Welcoming remarks
b. What you can expect to learn
2. Theoretical backgrounds on Power Systems and Transients
a. Theoretical analysis methods
b. The range of problems and frequencies: lightning, switching and
temporary overvoltages; electromechanical transients
3. Numerical methods for the simulation of transients
a. Load-flow, Steady-state
b. Frequency scan
c. Initialization
d. Time-domain
4. Introduction to EMTP-RV and EMTPWorks using examples
a. Overview: devices, pins and signals
b. Power and Control devices
c. Device attributes
d. Basic scripting techniques
e. MPLOT and ScopeView
5. Creation and maintenance of subnetworks
a. Subnetwork uniqueness, Masking
b. Hierarchical designs: from small systems to large scale problems
c. Symbol editor
d. Password protection
6. Creation and maintenance of libraries
7. Other options
a. Available Libraries
b. Searching for devices
c. Error checking
d. Page setup, multipage designs
8. Basic models: switches, RLC branches, ideal sources
9. Capacitor bank switching example
Day 2
1. Simulation of control systems
a. Measuring devices: power, voltage, current
b. User-defined modeling
c. Examples: mean-value model, measuring power with variable frequency,
variable inductance model
2. Switching device models
a. Simulation of power electronics devices
b. Power converters and switching devices
3. Transmission/Distribution line and cable models
a. Theory and available models
b. PI-section, Constant Parameter model, Frequency dependent models
c. Corona model
d. Application examples
4. Three-phase power-flow
a. Methodology and setup options
b. Initialization
5. Nonlinear devices
a. Modeling in steady-state and time-domain
b. Application examples
6. Transformer models
7. Synchronous and asynchronous machine models and related controls
a. Available models
b. Case setup, controls and initialization
c. Startup from 0 Hz
8. The study of a complete system
a. From load-flow to steady-state to time-domain
b. Switching transients
c. Temporary overvoltages
Day 3
1. Power system stability studies: electromechanical oscillations,
a. Exciter, governor and stabilizer models.
b. Load model designs and applications.
c. Transmission case study.
d. Synchronous machine synchronization
e. IEEE-39 test system
f. Large scale systems
2. IEEE-34 bus distribution test case study
3. Wind generation and applications, wind parks
4. HVDC transmission
5. Switching Studies in EMTP
g. EMTP breaker models
h. Application in studies
i. Statistical studies
j. Pre-strike and re-strike
k. Transient Recovery Voltage
l. Capacitor switching
m. Circuit Breaker Non-linear Arc Models

Day 4
6. Insulation Coordination principles
a. Insulation Strength
b. Insulation Tests
c. Voltage stresses within the system
d. Lightning, switching and temporary overvoltages
e. Ferroresonance and harmonic resonance
f. Lightning arrester selection
g. Statistical Switching Studies and Line Insulation
h. Line arresters and Pre-insertion Resistors
i. Insulation Coordination Process
j. Examples

Day 5
1. Lightning Analysis for Substations
k. Lightning Characteristics and Parameters
l. Modeling of overhead lines, towers, ground leads, buswork
m. Modeling of Substation Elements and GIS
n. Shielding Failures
o. The Backflash
p. Dynamic Response of Tower Grounding
q. Surge Arrester Modeling and Selection for Lightning
 r. Substation MTBF Studies
s. Surge Transfer Through Transformers
t. Example study for overhead line and substation MTBF
u. GIS modeling example
2. Advanced topics on EMTP
a. Scripting
b. DLL programming