Wednesday September 7, 2016

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Presenter

08:00

08:30

Registration Opens and Continental Breakfast

 

08:30

08:40

Welcome, Agenda Overview, and Speaker Introductions

William Yu, OMICRON Canada

08:40

09:05

Opening Keynote Presentation

Dr. Alex Apostolov, PAC World Magazine

09:05

09:35

History of Relay Protection: Past, Present and Future

Rohan Perera, Hydro One Networks Inc.

09:35

10:00

Philosophy of Protective Relay Testing

Kevin Donaldson, OMICRON Canada

10:00

10:30

Coffee & TechTalk

 

10:30

11:00

Synchrophasor-Based Power System Protection and Control Applications

Ritwik Chowdhury, SEL Schweitzer

11:00

11:30

A Hands-On Subset of Tests for Assessing Phasor Measurement Units

Fred Steinhauser, OMICRON Austria

11:30

12:00

NERC PRC Standards and Their Impact on Generator Protection

Dr. Murty V.V.S. Yalla, Beckwith

12:00

01:30

Lunch

 

01:30

02:00

Asset Management through Integrated Monitoring & Diagnostics in Protection Relays

Vijay Muthukrishnan, GE Energy

02:00

02:30

A New Database Solution for Protection System Maintenance - Test, Maintain, Document, and Comply with NERC Reliability Standards

Brady Jenkins, OMICRON USA

02:30

03:00

Verification of IEC 61850 Communication during Commissioning and Supervision during Operation

Fred Steinhauser, OMICRON Austria

03:00

03:30

Coffee & TechTalk

 

03:30

04:00

Updates on IEC 61850 Standard Ed. 2

Dr. Alex Apostolov, PAC World Magazine

04:00

04:30

Implementation of an IEC61850 System for Breaker Failure Scheme using GOOSE and Sampled Values

Curtis Ruff, EPCOR and Peter Fong, Sequence Instruments

04:30

05:00

Panel Discussion for Audience Q&A

 

05:00

05:30

Closing

 

05:30

08:00

Welcome Reception

 


Thursday September 8, 2016

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Topic 

Presenter

08:00

08:30

Breakfast

 

08:30

09:00

Our Industry Challenge: New Trends in Distribution Protection Automation (i.e. Reclosers, Sectionalizers and Coordination)

Wanda Reder, S&C Electric

09:00

09:30

Transient testing of communication based distribution automation schemes

Stephan Geiger, OMICRON Austria

09:30

10:00

K-factor and Cable Impedance Measurement for Precise Fault Location in MV Cable Systems

Thomas Renaudin, OMICRON Canada

10:00

10:30

Coffee & TechTalk

 

10:30

11:00

Protection Redundancy: Combination of Line Differential and Distance Protection

Ilia Voloh, GE Energy

11:00

11:30

Scheme Testing of Bus Differential Protection Using RelaySimTest 

Christopher Pritchard, OMICRON Austria

11:30

12:00

Panel Discussion for Audience Q&A

 

12:00

12:15

Closing

 

12:15

01:30

Lunch

 

01:30

04:30

Tour of GE Energy’s Grid IQ Innovation Centre in Markham