| 10/16/2017 | |||
 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Registration - Spokane Convention Center | ||
| 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Visit Vendor Exhibits - Spokane Convention Center [More Info] | ||
| 10/17/2017 | |||
| 7:00 am - 5:00 pm | Registration | ||
| 7:45 am - 8:00 am | Welcome by Dr. Anjan Bose, Program Chair, Washington State University | ||
| 8:00 am - 11:30 am | |||
| 8:00 am - 8:35 am | Distance Protection: Why Have We Started With a Circle, Does It Matter, and What Else Is Out There? [More Info] Bogdan Kasztenny , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Edmund O. Schweitzer, III, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | ||
| 8:40 am - 9:15 am | Single Line Open Detection In The Presence Of Distributed Energy Resources [More Info] Michael Ropp, Northern Plains Power Technologies Dustin Schutz, Northern Plains Power Technologies Scott Perlenfein, Northern Plains Power Technologies Chris Mouw, Northern Plains Power Technologies | ||
| 9:15 am - 9:35 am | BREAK | ||
| 9:35 am - 10:10 am | Teleprotection With Mpls Ethernet Communications - Development And Testing Of Practical Installations [More Info] Tariq Rahman , San Diego Gas & Electric Michael Bryson, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Solveig Ward, Quanta Technology LLC Eric Udren, Quanta Technology LLC | ||
| 10:15 am - 10:50 am | Testing Superimposed-component And Traveling-wave Line Protection [More Info] Christopher Pritchard , OMICRON electronics Thomas Hensler, OMICRON electronics Bogdan Kasztenny , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Normann Fischer, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | ||
| 10:55 am - 11:30 am | How Regulatory Requirements Affect “Protection System” Design and Operation [More Info] Abdur Rehman , Puget Sound Energy Paul Luther, Puget Sound Energy | ||
| 11:30 am - 1:15 pm | LUNCH (Exhibitor Area Open Until 1:15pm) [More Info] | ||
| 11:30 am - 1:15 pm | Lunch Networking Event - Supporting Women in Engineering [More Info] | ||
| 1:15 pm - 4:45 pm | |||
| 1:15 pm - 1:50 pm | Analyzing Faulted Transmission Lines: Phase Components as an Alternative to Symmetrical Components [More Info] Steven Chase , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Sumit Sawai, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Amol Kathe, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | Adaptive Protection For Modern Distribution Systems: Approaches, Functional Requirements, And Challenges [More Info] Amin Zamani , Quanta Technology LLC Solveig Ward, Quanta Technology LLC Ashok Gopalakrishnan, Quanta Technology LLC Farid Katiraei, Quanta Technology LLC Sridhar Rao, Southern California Edison Jeff Shiles, Southern California Edison Anthony Johnson, Southern California Edison Alexsandra Guerra, Southern California Edison | Fundamentals - Basics of Protection [More Info] |
| 1:55 pm - 2:30 pm | What's New In C37.113-2015, IEEE Guide For Protective Relay Applications To Transmission Lines [More Info] Nestor Casilla, Doble Engineering Company | Case Study: Inglewood Distribution Automation [More Info] Louis Tibbs , Puget Sound Energy | |
| 2:30 pm - 2:50 pm | BREAK | ||
| 2:50 pm - 3:25 pm | Deterministic Communications for Protection Applications Over Packet-Based Wide-Area Networks [More Info] Paul Robertson, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | A Simple Method for Determining Fault Location on Distribution Lines [More Info] Brett Cockerham, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Larry Wright , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Thomas Covington, Fayetteville Public Works Commission Tim Stankiewicz, Fayetteville Public Works Commission Rick Anderson, Fayetteville Public Works Commission | Fundamentals - Symmetrical Components [More Info] |
| 3:30 pm - 4:05 pm | Adaptive Protection in a Changing World [More Info] Roy Moxley, Siemens Industry Inc. Farel Becker, Siemens Industry Inc. | Who Has The 32? [More Info] Ben Kazimier , Basler Electric Company | |
| 4:10 pm - 4:45 pm | Accurate and Economical Traveling-Wave Fault Locating Without Communications [More Info] Armando Guzmán , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Bogdan Kasztenny , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Venkat Mynam, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Yajian Tong, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | Correlating Protective Relay Reports for System-Wide, Post-Event Analysis [More Info] John Town, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Jared Bestebreur , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Andy Gould, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Eric McCollum, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative | Fundamentals - Line Overcurrent Protection (Radial Systems) [More Info] |
| 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Visit Vendor Exhibits - Spokane Convention Center [More Info] | ||
| 10/18/2017 | |||
| 7:00 am - 5:00 pm | Registration | ||
| 8:00 am - 11:30 am | |||
| 8:00 am - 8:35 am | Learn IEC 61850 Configuration in 30 Minutes [More Info] Wei Huang , ABB Inc. | Summary Paper For C37.243 IEEE Guide For Application Of Digital Line Current Differential Relays Using Digital Communication [More Info] Craig Palmer , RFL Electronics | Fundamentals - Non-pilot Line Protection (lines with two sources) [More Info] |
| 8:40 am - 9:15 am | Smart Substation: design, installation, testing, and training experience [More Info] Steven Kunsman, ABB Inc George Gresko, PECO Mike Kockott, ABB Inc | Sharing Direct Fiber Channels Between Protection and Enterprise Applications Using Wavelength Division Multiplexing [More Info] Veselin Skendzic , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Normann Fischer, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Jonathan Sykes, Pacific Gas & Electric Company Dewey Day, Pacific Gas and Electric Company Kevin Fennelly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company | |
| 9:15 am - 9:35 am | BREAK | ||
| 9:35 am - 10:10 am | Implementation of a Process Bus based feeder protection and measurement system operating as alternate protection at CTEEP’s Embu-Guaçu substation [More Info] Lucas De Oliveira , GE Grid Solutions Annelise Bittencourt, GE Grid Solutions Rafael Matos, GE Grid Solutions N. C. Marcello, CTEEP, Brazil Terrence Smith, GE Digital Energy | Locating Faults Before the Breaker Opens – Adaptive Autoreclosing Based on the Location of the Fault [More Info] Bogdan Kasztenny , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Armando Guzmán , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Venkat Mynam, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Titiksha Joshi, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | Fundamentals - Pilot Protection [More Info] |
| 10:15 am - 10:50 am | Testing IEC 61850 Merging Units [More Info] Qiaoyin Yang, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Ed Cenzon , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. David Keckalo, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. David Dolezilek, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | The Advantages Of Continuous Monitoring Of Power Line Carrier Channels Applied With Protection Systems [More Info] Roger Ray , PowerComm Solutions, LLC | |
| 10:55 am - 11:30 am | Expanding Protection and Control Communications Networks With Wireless Radio Links [More Info] Tom Bartman, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Ben Rowland, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Laura Rogers, Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc. | From Fault Model to Protection System Model [More Info] David Beach , Portland General Electric | |
| 11:30 am - 1:15 pm | LUNCH (Exhibitor Area Open Until 1:15) [More Info] | ||
| 1:15 pm - 4:45 pm | |||
| 1:15 pm - 1:50 pm | Understanding Design, Installation, and Testing Methods That Promote Substation IED Resiliency for High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse Events [More Info] Travis Mooney, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Tim Minteer, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Dave Whitehead, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Sharla Artz, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | Setting Out of Step Elements on Generators using a power system stability program. [More Info] Casey Harman , Puget Sound Energy | Fundamentals - Fault Location [More Info] |
| 1:55 pm - 2:30 pm | Beyond the Knee Point: A Practical Guide to CT Saturation [More Info] Ariana Hargrave, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Michael J. Thompson, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Brad Heilman, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | Setting And Verification Of Generation Protection To Meet NERC Reliability Standards [More Info] Jonathan Gao , GE Multilin Yujie Yin, GE Multilin Douglas Rust, Dandsco LLC | |
| 2:30 pm - 2:50 pm | BREAK | ||
| 2:50 pm - 3:25 pm | Directional Element Design For Protecting Circuits With Capacitive Fault And Load Currents [More Info] Karl Smith , ABB Inc. Mike Benitez P.E., EPSII Joe Xavier, ABB Inc. David Minshall, ABB Inc. | Leveraging Digital Relays for Protection of Pumped Storage Hydro [More Info] Normann Fischer, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Terry Foxcroft, Snowy Hydro Limited Dale Finney, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Ritwik Chowdhury, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Marcos Donolo, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Douglas Taylor, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | Fundamentals - Event Discussion [More Info] |
| 3:30 pm - 4:05 pm | Directional Elements – How Fast Can They Be? [More Info] Venkat Mynam, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Rafael Martínez Morales, Comisiŏn Federal de Electricidad Armando Guzmán , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Jean Leŏn Eternod, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Veselin Skendzic, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | Meeting New Gas Turbine Operational Challenges with Modern Protection and Control Solutions [More Info] Benton Vandiver, ABB Inc Mike Kockott, ABB Inc | |
| 4:10 pm - 4:45 pm | Tutorial On High Impedance Fault Detection [More Info] JC Theron, GE | Using the Multi-Loop Fault Analysis Method for Setting and Evaluating Generator Protection Elements [More Info] Ritwik Chowdhury, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Dale Finney, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Normann Fischer, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | |
| 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Visit Vendor Exhibits - Spokane Convention Center [More Info] | ||
| 10/19/2017 | |||
| 7:00 am - 5:00 pm | Registration | ||
| 8:00 am - 11:30 am | |||
| 8:00 am - 8:35 am | Comprehensive Transformer Montioring with Application in a Hydro Power Plant [More Info] Roger Hedding , ABB Inc Mike Kockott, ABB Inc Joseph Menezes, ABB Inc Lars Frisk, ABB Inc Krister Hagman, ABB Inc | Breaking Paradigms In Control Building Design [More Info] Robert Frye , Tennessee Valley Authority | Fundamentals - Bus Protection [More Info] |
| 8:40 am - 9:15 am | Using Incremental Quantities to Speed-Up Transformer Protection [More Info] Roy Moxley, Siemens Industry Inc. Stefan Nohe, Siemens Industry Inc. | Commission Testing Methods for Protection Systems [More Info] Tom Ernst , GE Digital Energy Ken Sletten, Minnesota Power | |
| 9:15 am - 9:35 am | BREAK | ||
| 9:35 am - 10:10 am | Impact Of The Incipient Faults On The Sensitive Protection [More Info] Zhihan Xu, GE Digital Energy Ilia Voloh, GE Grid Solutions Leonardo Torelli, CSE Uniserve | An Introduction To Completing A NERC PRC-019 Study [More Info] Matt Manley , Power Engineers Tony Limon, Power Engineers | Fundamentals - Transformer Protection [More Info] |
| 10:15 am - 10:50 am | High-Impedance Differential Applications With Mismatched CTs [More Info] Michael J. Thompson, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Héctor Altuve, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Russ Franklin, Alliant Energy Hossein Nabi-Bidhendi, ABB Inc | Using Protective Relays for Microgrid Controls [More Info] Scott Manson , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. William Edwards, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | |
| 10:55 am - 11:30 am | Unrestrained Low-impedance Bus Differential – Should I Use It? [More Info] Ernest Poggi , Xcel Energy Tom Ernst , GE Digital Energy Mohamed Omer, Xcel Energy | Robust Microgrid Control System for Seamless Transition Between Grid-Tied and Island Operating Modes [More Info] Will Allen , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Scott Manson , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Bharath Nayak, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | |
| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Keynote: The Ever Changing World of Protection and Control [More Info] Jonathan Sykes, Pacific Gas & Electric Company | ||
| 1:15 pm - 4:45 pm | |||
| 1:15 pm - 1:50 pm | A Unified Approach to Controlled Switching of Power Equipment [More Info] Gabriel Benmouyal , Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Ritwik Chowdhury, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Normann Fischer, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Douglas Taylor, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Mark Talbott-Williams, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | Fundamentals - Generator Protection [More Info] | |
| 1:55 pm - 2:30 pm | New Method Of Capacitors Failure Detection And Location In Shunt Capacitor Banks [More Info] Ilia Voloh, GE Grid Solutions Hessam Jouybari-Moghaddam, University of Western Ontario Tarlochan Sidhu, University Ontario Institute of Technology Mohammad Zadeh, ETAP | ||
| 2:30 pm - 2:50 pm | BREAK | ||
| 2:50 pm - 3:25 pm | A Novel Method For Turn-to-turn Fault Detection In Shunt Reactors [More Info] Zhiying Zhang, GE Grid Solutions, LLC Sarasij Das, Indian Institute of Science Tarlochan Sidhu, University Ontario Institute of Technology Mohammad Zadeh, ETAP | Fundamentals - Event Discussion [More Info] | |
| 3:30 pm - 4:05 pm | Optimizing HV Capacitor Bank Design, Protection, and Testing [More Info] Benton Vandiver, ABB Inc Sergiu Paduraru, ABB Inc | ||
| 4:10 pm - 4:45 pm | Electromagnetic Torque From Event Report Data – A Measure of Machine Performance [More Info] Derrick Haas, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Dale Finney, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. | ||
| 4:45 pm | ADJOURN | ||
