Power System Protection and Automation

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the principles of digital Power System relaying specifically tailored to Industrial facilities. The course will cover the issues with distance protection relays, IEC 61850 standard implementation and latest development of power protection maintenance and commissioning of electrical substation.

 

 

[2017] Electrical grounding training Course - Course given to Industry | in FEUP |12 attendees

Subject matter included: Sphere of Influence Theory, advantages/disadvantages of various grounding electrodes, how to properly connect these electrodes into the grounding system, types of bonds that are acceptable and where to use them, resistance-to-Ground testing, soil resistivity testing, basics of grounding system design, the impact of lightning strikes on grounding systems, the basic principles of grounding of medium and high voltage electrical systems, protective or Safety grounding systems, measuring of ground resistance, resistivity in substations, and protection of industry from lightning energy

[2017] Power System Protection training Course @ COGEN Portugal

Subject matter included: Understand the fundamentals of electrical power protection and applications; recognise the different fault types, Perform simple fault and design calculations, understand protection system components, interpret the protection systems existing in your plant, understand their functions ,detect any shortcoming and explain any undesired or uncoordinated relay operation, perform simple relay settings, choose appropriate protective devices for different equipment, make more informed decisions on electrical power system protection.

 

 [2017] Invited external supervisor of Kathmandu University, in Nepal

I was supervisor of Mr. Ravi Raj Shrestha, a graduate student of Master of Engineering in Electrical Power Engineering (MEEPE) cohort 2015-2017, at Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in Kathmandu University, Nepal to defend his dissertation titled " Impact of Distributed Generation on Protection Coordination".

 

[2010] The HVDC Doctoral Colloquium | www.fe.up.pt/~hvdc

This colloquium allows researchers and PhD students to discuss the research they are doing in the fields of HVDC transmission and integration of large offshore wind power. The colloquium includes topics on HVDC circuits, power converter topologies, multi-terminal HVDC, DC grids, power flow analysis, protection schemes, operation and control and scaled laboratory experiences.

The 1st HVDC Doctoral Colloquium was hosted by INESC TEC/University of Porto, Portugal and organised by myself. In 2011 it was hosted by CITCEA-UPCwww.citcea.upc.edu/IIHVDC; in 2012 by the University of Cardiff, UK; and in 2013 by University of Leuven , Belgium - www.hvdc-colloquium.be. Subsequently, the colloquium was organizes in Denmark and Cardiff University and it has been happening ever since.

As a result of this colloquium organized by university of Porto in 2010, a few universities gather together every year, allowing their PhD candidates to meet up with other colleagues and academics from others universities in a more informal way and having more time to discuss their research topics and research routes and ideas. This annual meetings also allows not to overlapping research topics across Europeans universities, institutes and industries but complementary research topics.

Few European research grants have been awarded to this group. See “projects & awards”.

 

[2010] Business & Innovation Network @ University of Porto

 

I chaired a session of BIN@FEUP on the subject of micro wind generation. More than 40 attendants were from either the academia or the industry. 

Title: “Micro-wind generation: a domestic business opportunity?”

 

 

[2011] Business & Innovation Network @ Sheffield University

I chaired a session of BIN@Sheffield, UK on the subject of Offshore Wind Generation. More than 50 attendants were from either the academia or the industry.  

Title: “Offshore Wind Generation”