The DPSP organisers welcome abstract submissions exploring, but not limited to, the following subject areas:
Evolving technologies and future networks
- New protection principles and algorithms
- New software solutions for protection systems
- Digital substations: protection aspects and architectures
- Application, design, and best practices for timing and synchronisation in protection systems
- Application, design, and cyber security for protection communications and integrated systems
- IED functional integration and impact on reliability, availability, and maintainability
- Roadmap for protection and control systems: centralised protection, virtualisation, digital twins, and new operating principles
- Protection-focused condition monitoring and situational awareness
- Conventional and non-conventional instrument transformers: experience and lessons learned
- Protection implications for future networks with emerging technologies: heat pumps, electric vehicles, energy storage
- Impact of the energy crisis on protection technology evolution
Protection of networks
- High-voltage and ultra-high-voltage transmission networks
- Distribution and low voltage networks
- Offshore networks
- Microgrids and islanded networks
- DC networks and point-to-point DC links in AC networks
- Converter-dominated networks with reduced fault current and lower inertia
- Impact of grid codes and standards on network operation and protection
- Impact of energy crisis on network operation and protection
- Impact of weather on network operation and protection
Industrial network protection
- Asset protection
- Protection-focused monitoring and diagnostics
- Load shedding and load balancing schemes
- Bus transfer schemes
Applications
- System integrity schemes and wide area protection
- Protection of generation systems and grid interconnections
- Protection issues during black start and network restoration
- Plant and substation protection
- Protection of electric transport systems
- Configuration management and maintenance and obsolescence strategies for protection systems Human aspects in protection and control
- Commissioning and testing procedures and tools