DPSP 2010 - Managing the Change
The 10th International Conference on Developments in Power System Protection
29 March – 1 April 2010, Hilton Deansgate, Manchester, UK

Call for Papers

Technical Scope

The conference organising committee welcomes contributions in the general area of Power System Protection and Control. These can range from research concepts and ideas to technical issues and industrial applications.

Contributions are encouraged from, but not limited to, the themes and topics in the following areas:

Impact of industry changes on protection and control:

	Distributed generation
	Smart grids
	Protection refurbishment strategies
	Power electronics for protection and control
	Asset management for protection
	Strategies to satisfy business objectives
	Application and commissioning of IEDs
	Testing strategies
	Utility experiences and future requirements

Functional integration of protection and control:

	Design and application of integrated systems
	Effect of integration on reliability, availability and maintainability
	Compatibility with existing systems
	Impact of advances in technology
	Effect of intranet, process buses, LANs and WANs
	IEC 61850
	System Integrity Protection Schemes

Relay design and protection principles:

	New algorithms and software solutions
	Wide area and network protection
	Artificial intelligence applications
	Advances in hardware design
	Software quality management
	UHV network protection/HVDC interties
	Testing
	Impact of new sensors
	Fault locators
	HVDC networks

Key Dates

Abstract Submission	Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Notification of Acceptance	Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Submission of Final Papers	Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Early Bird Deadline for Registration	Tuesday, 26 January 2010

 

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