BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251023T122140Z UID:2C32E415-3D90-4A5F-8CDC-D195FF196F60 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251014T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251015T203000 DESCRIPTION:Two Night Seminar Covering Motorbus Transfer System Design & Ap plication Considerations (Oct 14\, 2025) & Power plant protection for indu strial & utility applications (Oct 15\, 2025)\n\nThis course is geared tow ards practicing electrical\, control and instrument engineers who perform engineering on facilities within the process industries.\n\nAbstract:\nMot orbus Transfer System Design & Application Considerations (Oct 14\, 2025)\ n\nTo maintain a critical process upon loss of primary motor bus power\, i ndustrial facilities & power plants depend largely on residual voltage tra nsfer\, ignoring phase angle and closing the backup source when the motor bus residual voltage has decayed to 30%. This presentation discussed the c onsequences of out-of-phase residual voltage transfers using a transient s imulation program to model a bus with three motors of various sizes\, iner tias\, and impedances\, and calculates the peak transient motor current an d torque upon closure of the backup source breaker. Individual motors exhi bit positive and negative torques and they can impact the motor shaft stre ss. Other motor bus transfer schemes such as fast transfer\, and in-phase transfer which reduce the peak motor current and torque without disrupting the process in most cases are also discussed. Design of a digital motorbu s transfer scheme which incorporates fast\, in-phase\, and residual transf er schemes is discussed along with digital signal processing algorithms.\n \nPower plant protection for industrial & utility applications (Oct 15\, 2 025)\n\nGenerator protection is crucial for power plants to prevent catast rophic failures\, ensure the safety of personnel & equipment\, and maintai n grid stability by detecting and isolating faults quickly. Protection sys tems guard against equipment damage\, minimizing downtime\, extending asse t life\, and ensuring compliance with industry standards & regulations. So me of the topics covered include generator grounding\, & connections\, pro tection against internal faults\, external faults and abnormal operating c onditions. Protection as per IEEE\, IEC and NERC PRC standards will be dis cussed in this presentation.\n\nCo-sponsored by: Donald G. Dunn\, FIEEE\n\ nSpeaker(s): Murty\n\nAgenda: \n5:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Dinner Served to all re gistered attendees.\n\n6:00 pm - 6:15 pm: Annoucements\n\n6:15 pm - 8:30 p m: Presentation\n\nBldg: Bechtel Energy Building #3\, 2105 Citywest Place\ , Houston\, Texas\, United States\, 77042 LOCATION:Bldg: Bechtel Energy Building #3\, 2105 Citywest Place\, Houston\, Texas\, United States\, 77042 ORGANIZER:donald.dunn@ieee.org SEQUENCE:51 SUMMARY:Motorbus Transfer System Design & Application Considerations (Oct 1 4\, 2025) & Power plant protection for industrial & utility applications ( Oct 15\, 2025) URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/501628 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>Two Night Seminar Covering Motorbu s Transfer System Design &amp\; Application Considerations (Oct 14\, 2025) &amp\; Power plant protection for industrial &amp\; utility applications (Oct 15\, 2025) </strong></p>\n<p>This course is geared towards practicing electrical\, control and instrument engineers who perform engineering on facilities within the process industries.</p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<br>Mot orbus Transfer System Design &amp\; Application Considerations (Oct 14\, 2 025)<br></strong></p>\n<p>To maintain a critical process upon loss of prim ary motor bus power\, industrial facilities &amp\; power plants depend lar gely on residual voltage transfer\, ignoring phase angle and closing the b ackup source when the motor bus residual voltage has decayed to 30%. This presentation discussed the consequences of out-of-phase residual voltage t ransfers using a transient simulation program to model a bus with three mo tors of various sizes\, inertias\, and impedances\, and calculates the pea k transient motor current and torque upon closure of the backup source bre aker. Individual motors exhibit positive and negative torques and they can impact the motor shaft stress. Other motor bus transfer schemes such as f ast transfer\, and in-phase transfer which reduce the peak motor current a nd torque without disrupting the process in most cases are also discussed. Design of a digital motorbus transfer scheme which incorporates fast\, in -phase\, and residual transfer schemes is discussed along with digital sig nal processing algorithms.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Power plant protection f or industrial &amp\; utility applications (Oct 15\, 2025)</strong></p>\n<p >Generator protection is crucial for power plants to prevent catastrophic failures\, ensure the safety of personnel &amp\; equipment\, and maintain grid stability by detecting and isolating faults quickly. Protection syste ms guard against equipment damage\, minimizing downtime\, extending asset life\, and ensuring compliance with industry standards &amp\; regulations. &nbsp\;Some of the topics covered include generator grounding\, &amp\; co nnections\, protection against internal faults\, external faults and abnor mal operating conditions. Protection as per IEEE\, IEC and NERC PRC standa rds will be discussed in this presentation.</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br />< p><strong><span style="color: rgb(224\, 62\, 45)\;">5:30 pm</span></strong > - 6:00 pm: Dinner Served to all registered attendees.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>6:0 0 pm - 6:15 pm: Annoucements</p>\n<p>6:15 pm - <strong><span style="color: rgb(224\, 62\, 45)\;">8:30 pm: </span></strong>Presentation</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR