PWRD Technical Areas & Associated Topics
Topics of interest to PWRD are listed in the following website and is re-displayed below: http://www.ieee-pes.org/part-2-preparation-and-submission-of-transactions-papers
Insulated Conductors
- Construction and design of cables (materials and manufacturing)
- Construction, design, and testing of cable accessories (cable terminations and joints)
- Construction, operation, and testing of cable system
- Assembly, operation, and testing of station and control (including fiberoptic) cables
Power System Communications
- Communication systems (apparatus/facility aspects)
- Communication media (apparatus/facility aspects)
- Communication protocols (apparatus/facility aspects)
- Communication standardization (apparatus/facility aspects)
Power System Instrumentation and Measurements
- Digital technology for measurements (including PMU)
- Electricity metering
- High voltage testing
- Measurement techniques for impedance elements
Power System Relaying
- Digital protection systems
- Adaptive protections
- Power system protection
- Protection of electrical equipment
- Relaying communications
- Power system fault analysis
- Protection of non-traditional facilities such as wind farms
Substations
- Substation automation
- Intelligent electronic devices (IEDs)
- Programmable logic controllers (PLCs)
- Substation design and grounding
- High voltage power electronics stations
- Gas insulated substations (GIS)
Surge Protective Devices
- Design/testing of high voltage surge protective devices (>1000 V)
- Application of high voltage surge protective devices (>1000 V)
- Design/testing of low voltage surge protective devices (<1000 V)
- Application of low voltage surge protective devices (<1000 V)
Switchgear
- Interruption phenomena
- Fuses
- Low voltage switchgear
- High voltage circuit breakers
- Reclosers and sectionalizers
Transformers
- Power and instrument transformers
- Insulating fluids
- Dielectric testing
- Audible noise and vibration
- Transformer modeling techniques
Transmission and Distribution
- AC transmission and distribution facilities
- Lightning phenomena and insulator performance
- Overhead line conductors: electrical, thermal and mechanical aspects
- Corona, electric and magnetic fields, and electromagnetic noise
- Towers, poles, and hardware
- Capacitors, shunt and series capacitor banks, and harmonic filter banks
- HVDC transmission and distribution
- FACTS and power electronic applications to power systems
- Power quality, harmonics and grounding
- Simulation, analysis and control of power system transients
- Work procedures, safety, tools, and equipment
- Maintenance and operation of overhead lines
- Superconductivity analysis and devices
- Integration of distributed resources (apparatus aspects)
- Smart T&D grids (apparatus & facility aspects)