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Category 'Transmission and Distribution' - Technical Articles

The “Transmission and Distribution” category contains technical articles dedicated to electricity transmission and distribution in high—and medium-voltage fields. This includes T&D equipment such as transmission and distribution lines, power transformers, capacitor banks, etc. Special attention is paid to installing, testing, and commissioning MV and HV equipment and troubleshooting various problems that may arise in power grids.

Energy and Power

The life of a power substation project: Design, construction, erection and commissioning

This technical article covers numerous substation project design elements, lists the steps of the construction process, and examines the environmental impacts and impact mitigation strategies for power transmission and distribution substation projects. Most projects suffer due to lack of capability…...

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Jan 16, 2023 | By

The life of a power substation project: Design, construction, erection and commissioning
Power Substation

Procedures and activities during the design and tendering phase of HV project engineering

Before getting into the project engineering phase, power system planning with the focus on basic design aspects of main power system components must be performed. Based on recommendations resulting from various studies, the project engineering phase, mainly covers the design,…...

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Sep 26, 2022 | By

Procedures and activities during the design and tendering phase of HV project engineering
Power Substation

Instructions for generating specifications and selecting the main components of an HV substation

From the point of making specification, high voltage substation is pretty complex. There are dozen of substation equipment that must be specified and selected out of hundreds of manufacturers. This article will help a little bit with some fundamental instructions…...

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Sep 05, 2022 | By

Instructions for generating specifications and selecting the main components of an HV substation
Protection

Breaker failure protection applications of modern numerical distance relays

Modern numerical distance relays are equipped with a wide range of protection features, including overcurrent, overvoltage, undervoltage, underfrequency, overfrequency, breaker failure, synchronism check, power swing blocking and tripping, pilot protection schemes, digital relay-to-relay communications capability, logic programmability, and sophisticated math… Read more

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Functional integration and advanced applications of modern numerical distance relays
Power Substation

Secrets and warnings in operation and maintenance of a Gas Insulated Substation (GIS)

After its inception in the mid-1960s, GIS technology has become a remarkable success over a wide range of high voltage applications up to 800 kV. Reliable operation and compact size have been its main advantages over its conventional air-insulated counterparts…....

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Hints for a good design of an optical communication system for a transmission line network

Communication networks are an integral part of interconnected transmission lines in a power grid, analogous to the spinal cord for control signal and information exchange among substations, data hubs, and load dispatch centers. This article covers the major trend and…...

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May 09, 2022 | By

Hints for a good design of an optical communication system for a transmission line network
Maintenance

Capacitor banks protection, cautions and maintenance tips

It would not be wrong to say that humanity has never consumed so much electricity, and to make the paradox bigger, there is still a lack of energy. The sharp increase in consumption in the last couple of decades has…...

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Apr 04, 2022 | By

Capacitor banks protection, cautions and maintenance
Power Substation

Where to start with the design of 132/33 kV substation switchgear and protection systems

The step-down substations make up for more than 80% of total grid substations and are the focal point of sub-transmission and distribution systems. Usually, HV substations within the power transmission grid are assigned with the dual function of switching and…...

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Mar 21, 2022 | By

132/ 33 kV substation layout and protection zone


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