Relay protection is the discipline of designing schemes that detect faults, coordinate relays, and isolate equipment without outages. Power System Protective Relays: Principles & Practices Presenter: Rasheek Rifaat, P. com IEEE Southern Alberta Section PES/IAS Joint Chapter Technical Seminar - November 2016. Selectivity is a mandatory requirement for all protection, but the importance of it depends on the application. Its main purpose is to safeguard electrical equipment like transformers, generators, and transmission lines from damage due to. Protection is the branch of electric power engineering concerned with the principles of design and operation of equipment (called 'relays' or 'protective relays') that detects abnormal power system conditions, and initiates corrective action as quickly as possible in order to return the power. Engineering use: Relays are used on feeders, transformers, buses, motors, generators, and transmission lines to protect equipment and improve system reliability. What controls it: Relay performance depends on the protected zone, CT/PT inputs, pickup settings, time delay, breaker clearing time, trip. In electrical engineering, a protective relay is a relay device designed to trip a circuit breaker when a fault is detected. : 4 The first protective relays were electromagnetic devices, relying on coils operating on moving parts to provide detection of abnormal operating conditions such as.