Concepts and realisation of fault recording system in a large power station

The perception in the Water and Electricity Department, Abu Dhabi, UAE, has grown stronger on judicious monitoring by a dedicated system of the operation of switching, regulating and protection equipment. Due to the degree of success in fault analysis depending heavily on the accuracy of data captured by the recording system used, the application of standalone fault recorders is now entering a new era on utility power systems. As a result of their design and manufacture being perceived with innovative hardware architectures and software breakthroughs, fault recorders have become more powerful in application and taken a winning place as the mainstay of information recording at every power station and grid substation built by the department. The focal point of this paper is the summary account of technical perspectives put into design and engineering aspects of the new fault recording facilities