Training Facilities in the Relay Protection Laboratory
2011
Jevgeņijs Kozadajevs, Aleksandrs Dolgicers

It is very important for people to get not only theoretical knowledge but also practical skills. Practical skills may be obtained by integration of the student into a real process or by participation in some kind of process simulation. It is proven that manual communication with a device encourages further cognition better than observing its operations on the screen. That means that the advantage of the laboratory training facilities is the possibility of manual contact and integration of the student in the process. The development of laboratory facilities began in the middle of the 20th century, when these were huge devices that occupied a large amount of place and consisted of real objects, the main disadvantages were limited functionality and low transportation possibility. Later the facilities were improved, they became more compact and the range of their opportunities grew. In the 1990s devices based on microprocessor basis were created, it was necessary to model different situations to learn them. So we came to the conclusion that it is time to improve the existing training facilities so that it could become possible to prepare further electrical engineering specialists properly in our country. Foreign companies produce training facilities, but we can not afford them because of the high price, also it is very difficult to find the device according to necessary specifications. Considering the facts that laboratory training facilities are very necessary for specialist training, foreign facilities are too expensive and old laboratory devices can not provide practical experience in working with modern electrical devices, to produce new laboratory facilities corresponding to the necessary specifications is an optimal solution.


Keywords
training facilities, relay protection, training stand, programmable logic controller

Kozadajevs, J., Dolgicers, A. Training Facilities in the Relay Protection Laboratory. Power and Electrical Engineering. Vol.28, 2011, pp.36-42. ISSN 1407-7345.

Publication language
Latvian (lv)
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