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Learn the fundamentals of electrical protection: you'll understand the basic concepts, types of faults and protective devices, how to select and coordinate protections, and how to analyze real-world cases to improve the safety and reliability of the electrical system.
Course content
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Basic Concepts: Protections:
- Introduction. Most Common Failures: Short Circuits.
- High and Low Voltage.
- Lightning Strikes.
- Electrical Overloads.
- Mechanical Forces (Motors).
- Protection Requirements.
- Response time.
- University Entrance Exam.
- Safety.
- Reliability.
- IEEE Nomenclature.
- Primary and backup protection.
- Areas covered by the protective measures.
- Protection and measurement transformers.
- Thermal damage curves for electrical equipment.
- Criteria for selecting settings on an overcurrent device.
- Criteria for Coordinating Overcurrent Protection.
- Selectivity Curves. Ground Overcurrent.
- Adjustment and Coordination Criteria.
- Overcurrent Relay.
- Thermal protection relay for induction motors.
- Low-Voltage Switches.
- Fuses.
Overcurrent Protection:
Overcurrent Protection Devices:
General course information
- Date: May 28 & 29, 2026 (8:30 AM - 5:30 PM)
- Lecturer: Juan Manuel Ramos Santos
- Duration: 16 Hours
- Location: Bogota - Erasmus Laboratory
