The Protection Relay Configuration and Troubleshooting Training Course offered by Oxford Training Centre is designed to build deep technical proficiency in relay systems used for safeguarding power infrastructure. The programme focuses on the configuration, testing, commissioning, and diagnostic analysis of protection relays across power systems and substations.
As digital protection technologies evolve, the ability to work with both legacy and modern systems—especially those based on IEC 61850 relay configuration—has become essential for reliability and operational integrity. This course delivers core competencies in relay configuration training, enabling participants to design, set up, and maintain relays for overcurrent, distance, differential, and transformer protection schemes.
Participants will also gain critical skills in identifying faults, assessing trip logic, and restoring operations after failures. The training emphasises real-world applications in relay diagnostics and fault analysis, exploring methodologies used across generation, transmission, and industrial environments. The integration of relays with SCADA, and the interpretation of event logs, waveforms, and fault records are central themes throughout the course.
As a key component of Power Systems and Maintenance Training Courses, this programme prepares engineers and technicians to support reliable protection architectures, conduct accurate relay testing and commissioning, and ensure compliance with grid protection protocols.
Objectives
- Configure protection relays for various applications including overcurrent, distance, and transformer protection
- Apply standard logic and settings for reliable protection relay setup and calibration
- Interpret fault events and execute effective relay diagnostics and fault analysis
- Troubleshoot malfunctioning relays using systematic fault-finding techniques
- Understand operational behavior of digital and numerical relays in real environments
- Integrate protection relays with SCADA systems and assess communication performance
- Perform relay testing and commissioning using modern diagnostic equipment
- Analyse performance data to improve response accuracy and protection selectivity
- Evaluate and implement industry-standard settings for IEC 61850 relay configuration
- Support effective maintenance procedures in substation protection relay systems
Target Audience
- Protection and control engineers
- Electrical engineers and technicians
- Substation maintenance and commissioning personnel
- Power system and grid operation staff
- Relay configuration and SCADA specialists
- Engineers involved in electrical relay protection training and testing
How Will Attendees Benefit?
- Strengthen core skills in protection relay training course principles
- Accurately configure and test relays for diverse system protection functions
- Diagnose relay malfunctions using structured analytical approaches
- Reduce system downtime through quicker troubleshooting and restoration
- Apply international standards to relay setting, timing, and coordination
- Ensure safe and compliant relay performance in power system operations
- Improve coordination between relays and remote control systems through SCADA and relay integration training
- Support efficient testing and maintenance cycles using built-in relay tools and field analyzers
- Transition confidently to modern digital relay technology with practical application in a digital protection relay training course context
- Return to operations with improved system response capabilities and actionable diagnostic skills
Course Content
Module 1: Fundamentals of Relay Protection
- Introduction to relay types and protection principles
- Overview of electrical relay protection training standards and applications
- Importance of selectivity, sensitivity, and reliability in relay design
Module 2: Protection Relay Configuration
- Relay logic, settings, and parameterisation
- Setup procedures for overcurrent, distance, and differential protection
- Practical exercises in relay configuration training
- File management, logic diagrams, and setting groups
Module 3: Relay Testing and Commissioning
- Overview of test plans and commissioning protocols
- Use of secondary injection equipment and test software
- Step-by-step relay testing and commissioning workflows
- Analyzing response accuracy and timing curves
Module 4: Fault Analysis and Troubleshooting
- Structured approach to protection relay troubleshooting course practices
- Real-world fault scenarios and event record interpretation
- Common relay misoperation issues and root causes
- Overcurrent and distance relay troubleshooting exercises
Module 5: Advanced Diagnostics and Calibration
- Relay performance benchmarking
- Time coordination and protection grading
- Procedures for protection relay setup and calibration
- Relay trip counters, health logs, and disturbance records
Module 6: SCADA Integration and Digital Systems
- Fundamentals of SCADA and relay integration training
- Digital communication protocols and data mapping
- Configuration and troubleshooting in IEC 61850 environments
- Working with digital protection relay training course platforms
Module 7: Substation Applications and System Interfaces
- Deployment in substation protection relay systems
- Multi-relay coordination and cross-zone communication
- Interface with circuit breakers, CTs, and VTs
- Event logging and disturbance file evaluation
Module 8: Reliability and Operational Assurance
- Relay setting audits and system verification
- Maintenance schedules and firmware updates
- Coordination with operational planning and safety systems
- Best practices in modern power system protection training