IEEE std 242 Vs. The Art and Science of Protective Relaying

[robertplant22]

Hello,

I wanted to get an opinion from some experienced engineers in this forum about the two books mentioned in the title. I have started reading both books in order to gain knowledge on the topic of protective relaying.

IEEE std 242 seems to be application geared; where as, The Art and Science of Protective Relaying seems to be geared towards theory.

I will probably end up reading both, but I'd like to hear what some of you guys have to say. It seems as though std 242 is a book you would find yourself referencing though out your career as a relay protection engineer.

Thanks!

 

[davidbeach]

Frankly, I'd start with Blackburn's Protective Relaying: Principles and Applications. I certainly refer to it more than either of the two you list.

 

[electricpete]

Since Buff book applies to “Industrial and Commerical” systems, I don’t think it goes into things like transmission line protection as much. If your world is Industrial/Commerical setting, and you are comfortable with the balance of theory/application you are seeing in Buff book (it certainly has both), the Buff book seems like a logical place to start to me.

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[DTR2011]

I would add that many relay manufacturers have very good application notes available on their websites. In the US, I would suggest SEL, Basler, GE & Beckwith.

Additionally, there are 3 big relay conferences in the US; Western Protective Relay Conference, Georgia Tech Relay Conference and Texas A&M. I'm pretty sure previous conference papers are available if you search a bit.

If you have the opportunity (and means), SEL offers training classes on protection and control at a very reasonable rate.

http://www.selinc.com/seluniversity/courses/prot/401/

 

[dpc]

I agree with David Beach - Blackburn's book is a much better reference for protective relaying - at least for utility systems.

"Art and Science of Protective Relaying" is quite old, unless someone has updated recently.

You'll never find it all in one book.

 

[magoo2]

Ditto dpc and David Beach's response. Mason's book is at such a high level that you could never expect to know how to set relays. Blackburn's book is much better.

The SEL website has a lot of good articles.

 

[robertplant22]

Thanks for all the responses. I've decided to go with Blackburn's book. It seems to be more up-to-date.

It would be nice to take one of the SEL classes, I did not know they were offered. Has anyone else taken any of them? If so what do you think about it?

Here is a link to the Texas A&M Relay conference smallgreek mentioned, if anyone else is interested, there seems to be some good documentation.

http://engineering.tamu.edu/prorelay/archives.htm

Thanks!

 

[Overvoltage]

The SEL classes are pretty good, but as you would expect they focus on SEL products. With that said, they still do a good job of presenting topics in a general way applicable to other mfrs also.

 

[davidbeach]

The SEL classes are pretty good, but as you would expect they focus on SEL products.

Not in my experience, but it's been several years. The theory classes were not product focused at all, but the product application classes certainly were. In both the Distribution Protection and the Transmission Protection classes I took they started with the basics, how the various element functioned as electromechanical relays, and then moved on to numeric relays. Those were both 3 day classes, and in both cases I followed them up with product application classes the last two days of the week and the focus was dramatically changed.