Aprende los fundamentos de las protecciones eléctricas: comprenderás los conceptos básicos, los tipos de fallas y dispositivos de protección, cómo seleccionar y coordinar protecciones e interpretar casos reales para mejorar la seguridad y continuidad del sistema eléctrico.
Course Content
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Basic Concepts: Protections:
- Introduction. Most Common Faults: Short Circuits.
- High and Low Voltage.
- Lightning Strikes.
- Electrical Overloads.
- Mechanical Forces (Motors).
- Protection Requirements.
- Response speed.
- 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: Mayo 28 y 29 de 2026 (8:30 AM – 5:30 PM)
- Lecturer: Juan Manuel Ramos Santos
- Duration: 16 Hours
- Location: Bogotá – Erasmus Laboratory