Wroclaw University of Technology

lnstitute of Electrical Power Engineering

Wroclaw, November sth, 2013

Dr Yesri ZakiMahammad
I appreciate very much receiving from you the drafts of the books:

1. An Introduction

2.

to the Digital Protection of Power Systems, 162 pages

An Advance Course in Power System Protection, 5 lectures.

After careful studying of them I would like to say that those are very good
materials which are suitable for use by our students studying at the M.Sc.
specialisations: Control in Electrical Power Engineering and Renewable Energy
Systems. The teachers in our Institute including myself will recommend this two drafts
as the literature for the courses: Power System Protection, Digital Signal Processing
for Power System Protection, Power System Faults and M.Sc. theses related to those
subjects. Therefore those two drafts will be sent to our Faculty Library to be available
for all interested students. Also I will appreciate receiving from you the pdf files of the
books to include them on the web sites with materials for students.
Thank you very much for nice and fruitful cooperation.

Yours sincerely
DYREK

UTU

,r.f.O1
Prof. dr. Jan Izykowski
Director of Institute of Electrical Power Engineering
Wroclaw University of Technology
Wroclaw, Poland
e-mail : j an.izykowski@pwr.wroc.pl
Postal address:

Wybrzeze Wyspia6skiego 27
50-370 Wroclaw
POLAND

Building: D-20

Tel:
Tel/fax:

0-77 3202655
O-71 3202656

Email: Inst.Energ@pwr.wroc.pl

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PREFACE

The applications of digital techniques in power system protection have been

established in 1969, and since then, those applications have been received accelerating
interest. The growing abilities of the digital computers and hence the digital relays, make
them to be more powerful and cheaper than the analog relays. The advance development
in hardware engineering has been followed by a rapid protection engineering studies
to create new digital protection algorithms. The main goal of these studies is to reduce
the operation time, and to increase both security and selectivity of the proposed
algorithms.
Digital protection developments have been published in scientific and technical
literatures, such as the proceedings of transactions, the proceedings of conferences, the
publications of the various manufacturers, and in a limited number of books in this
field. Any researcher or professional engineer, who is interesting in studying a special
problem in the digital protection field, finds himself surrounded by many references that
he has to dive in.
Therefore, books which can be regarded as an adequate introduction to the digital
power system protection, become more than necessary. I was thinking in this book to
include most of what a student, a researcher, or an engineer needs to go deeper in this
field. It was difficult task but I found it important. Thank God, this book comes true, and
it can be developed in the future. In a world becomes day by day more digitally, I have
the wish that through this book, I have been giving a hand to those who start the first step.

Dr. Yesri Zaki Mohammad