CEE will have the pleasure to host Mohamed F. Abdel-Fattah, from Reykjavik University, Iceland. He will give a talk on fault detection and protection of high impedance grounded grids.
In electric power networks, low-current faults may be caused in some faulty situations such as in high impedance faults (HIFs), earth-faults in medium voltage distribution networks (unearthed or compensated neutral) and/or in transient faults.
In this situation, the tradition conventional protection system might not be able to detect these faults, and hence they could be called as hidden or soft faults. Researchers have proposed, and are still developing, new techniques to deal with these types of faults. In this presentation, few developed protection methods will be presented for low-current faults detection in electric power networks.
The talk is free of charge.
Biography:
Mohamed F. Abdel-Fattah is an assistant professor at Reykjavik University, Iceland, with the school of science and engineering, since 2014. He was working at Aalto University, Finland, as a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer with the power systems group (2007-2009) and then joined the “smart grids and energy markets” project (2009-2014), with Aalto University, for the development of the self-healing capability of the smart distribution networks. He received his PhD degree in 2006 from Zagazig University, Egypt, after completing his BSc and MSc degrees, and then appointed as a PhD lecturer with the Department of Electrical Power and Machines Engineering. His research activities are mainly related to power system protection including earth-fault detection, diagnosis and location in medium and high-voltage networks, the self-extinction property of arcing earth faults, development of the transient-based protection systems and self-healing for smart-grids.