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Recorded Webinar

Virtual SEL Technical Seminar

Date held: April 28, 2020

In an effort to support our customers, our products, and critical infrastructure during this critical time, we are pleased to provide this recorded technical webinar on several new products and technologies that will improve the speed, safety, and effectiveness of your power system.

General Session

Company Update
Distribution Controls and Sensor Solutions for Evolving Power Systems—Brett Cockerham
Innovative Generator Protection With the SEL-400G—Normann Fischer
SEL Software—2020 and Beyond—Chris Anderson

Concurrent Breakout Sessions

General Session Recording: 2 hours 28 minutes

Breakout Option 1

Fast, Secure, Dependable, and Simple—Introducing the SEL-T401L Line Relay

This session provides an overview of the SEL-T401L Ultra-High-Speed Line Relay protection functions, focusing on simplicity, dependability, security, and speed. During the session, you will learn about the following as they apply to the SEL-T401L:

  • Distance, directional, voltage, and current protection elements.
  • Switch-onto-fault, pilot protection, weak-infeed, and open-breaker echo schemes.
  • Power-swing blocking and out-of-step tripping logic with no system studies required.
  • Protection channels, pilot signal redundancy, and multiterminal pilot schemes.
  • Enhancements addressing issues in networks with nontraditional sources.
  • acSELerator QuickSet SEL-5030 Software.
  • Application with the SEL-421 Protection, Automation, and Control System or SEL-411L Advanced Line Differential Protection, Automation, and Control System as an all-SEL dual-redundant protection system.

Presenters: Richard Kirby and Greg Smelich

Breakout Session 1 Recording: 2 hours 4 minutes

Breakout Option 2

Overcoming Performance Degradation When Migrating Protection to Packet-Based Networks

It is becoming evident that packet-based network technologies, such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Carrier Ethernet, cannot meet the communications channel performance requirements for high-speed protection. During this session, participants will:

  • Learn why latency, asymmetry, and failover are essential for maintaining a line current differential protection scheme.
  • Learn how VSN offers the same performance benefits as other pilot channel protection methods.

Presenters: Paul Belussi and Derrick Haas

 

Breaking Silos: Maximizing Substation Data Intelligence to Reduce Operations Cost

During this session, we discuss:

  • SEL Real-Time Automation Controller (RTAC) and SEL-2240 Axion enhancements in communications processing and remote terminal unit (RTU) applications.
  • Convergence of technology—obsoleting the terms RTU, communications processor, programmable automation controller (PAC), and programmable logic controller (PLC).
  • The role of data in the substation of the future.
  • Concentrating substation data—disturbance reports, condition-based maintenance indicators, and asset inventory.
  • New control and operational strategies that are possible when silos are removed.

Presenters: Andy Gould and Chris Bontje

Breakout Session 2 Recording: 2 hours 20 minutes

Breakout Option 3

Wildfire Mitigation—Applying SEL Technology as Part of a System-Level Solution

During this session, we discuss:

  • How SEL solutions fit into fire mitigation systems.
  • System grounding impacts on ground fault protection sensitivity.
  • Methods for detecting downed conductors on distribution transmission systems.
  • Field experiences with high-impedance fault detection.
  • Reclosing and sectionalizing adjustments for fire mitigation.

Presenter: Anthony Rahiminejad

 

Event Analysis From Actual Field Cases

In this session, participants will see how they can use powerful SEL-5601-2 synchroWAVe Event Software to analyze real-world events and learn how to quickly identify the source of power system problems. Topics include:

  • Event report triggering conditions.
  • Types of event reports.
  • Event report retrieval.
  • Overview of synchroWAVe Event.
  • Analysis of actual field cases.

Presenters: John Town, Karl Zimmerman, and Marcel Taberer

Breakout Session 3 Recording: 2 hours 32 minutes