The Future of Substations: Centralized Protection and Control

Modern power substations continue to use hardware that is dated and resistant to modernization. This document discusses the basics of substations, identifies their weaknesses, and suggests a method of improvement. This suggestion implements a centralized protection and control system to make the overall system more robust and flexible to the ever changing power system landscape.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• Thompson, Adam Craig

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• De La Ree, Jaime

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Centeno, Virgilio A.
• Broadwater, Robert P.

• power systems
• substations
• centralized protection and control
• transformers
• relays

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:9064

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/73177