Power plant protection calculation software
Power plant protection calculation software
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Hi folks,
Recently I have been working with power plant protection system designs. I ‘m wondering if someone can give me a tip about which software can perform the most number of protection calculation inside a power plant.
Thanks in advance.
Recently I have been working with power plant protection system designs. I ‘m wondering if someone can give me a tip about which software can perform the most number of protection calculation inside a power plant.
Thanks in advance.






RE: Power plant protection calculation software
RE: Power plant protection calculation software
Mike
RE: Power plant protection calculation software
As for protection device coordination, softwares only provide you with curves for the settings you provide. Again device library of most fuses, brekaers and relays are real help. You can adjust settings by comparing the curves. This is limited to curves for breakers and fuses.
There are many other settings required to set protection relays which only have to be calculated by hand and in most cases professinal judgement and experience is needed.
Protection is as much an art as science and you will do well to learn it while working with some experienced people.
RE: Power plant protection calculation software
I’m concerned about two software that can help me with the design of the protection system, EDSA and ETAP. Both provide “protect device calculation” that are extremely helpful, but still leave some hand calculation to perform.
Apparently it seems that exist such software that is able to perform “protection calculation” automatically, without the need of hand calculation. Does anyone is aware of it?
RE: Power plant protection calculation software
RE: Power plant protection calculation software
First you have to ask yourself how much do you want to spend? The more functions you want to do, the more you are going to pay.
Digsilent are a good program, although a bit expensive. Check www.digsilent.com
You can also do a search on this site. There was in the past some questions regarding protection software packets.
Regards
Ralph