RAMASAMY SUBRAMANIAN

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SENIOR ELECTRICAL SPECIALIST

Expertise in the field of power system protection, control & monitoring (PCM) at the local, national & international levels with utilities, manufacturers, and consultants. Span of experience extends from design, specification & engineering through applications & settings calculation with time-current coordination between chain of relays upstream and downstream to troubleshooting, technical reasoning and reporting.

•15+ years in technical leadership, management, and staff training; led multi-disciplinary team of utility engineers with best technology capture through strategic relationship with leading university professors and practicing experts.

•Proficient in applying protective relays, substation automation systems, SCADA communication integration with various types of protocols, and building a network of fault recorders for automatic fault analysis and fault locating & reporting.

•Principal author of many CIGRE and IEE-London conference papers.

•Designed protection schemes for all types of power system equipment, evaluated relaying performance, investigated failures, and acted as mentor to young engieers.

•Gained design and application experience with renewable power (Wind & Solar) integration into utility power grid.

•Dealt with capacitor protection applications and designed filters for harmonic mitigation.

•Provided parameter settings for SEL, Alstom, ABB, GE, Siemens, Basler, Beckwith, Erlphase and Cooper relays with a high-level of software proficiency in Quickset Accelerator, Micom, Enervista, PCM600, Digsi, IPS, Off-liner and Pro-view, tinkering ASPEN & SKM for relay modelling and time-current coordination.

•Applied protection relay settings with compliance to PRC019-2, PRC023-1, PRC024-1, PRC025-1, PRC026-2 & PRC027-2 Standards.

•Contributed significantly to many IEEE Power System Relay Coordination Committee meetings.

KEY SKILLS

•Relay and Control Systems

•Substation Automation

•Network of Fault Recorders

•Communication Integration

•Station Monitoring

EXPERIENCE

ENERCON ENGINEERING SERVICES, LAKE MARY, FLORIDA (2021-2023)

SENIOR PROTECTION SPECIALIST – Utility & Industrial Division

Specialized in the settings application & logic programming of SEL 700G, SEL300G, SEL 400G & 487E relays on the TVA fleets of 100 MW gas-turbine generators & GSU XFMRs (Colbert & Gallatin PS). Generators are connected to 3-winding GSU XFMRs via a generator voltage circuit breaker. There were twelve generators and six GSU XFMRs. Applied SEL 710 motor protection relays on 4 kV gas-turbine “Cranky Motors”, 387E/ 751 relays on internal power system XFMRs & high-speed supply changeover scheme on a 2-out-of 3 breaker basis.

STANLEY CONSULTING GROUP, ATLANTA, GA (2017-2021)

SENIOR ELECTRICAL SPECIALIST - Transmission & Distribution Division

Performed many retrofit applications of generator unit protection relay settings on gas turbine, steam turbine and IC engine generators and reporting. Relay settings and programming of transmission class substations. Settings compliances of lines, transformers to PRC023, PRC024, PRC025, PRC026 and PRC027. Wide area protection coordination studies. PV inverter integration into 230 kV system. Harmonic studies and capacitor filter application, etc. PRC027-1 coordination study was a milestone performance.

BURNS & McDONNELL, FULTON, MD (2014-2017)

Electrical Consultant

Many retrofit applications of transmission and distribution class applications on lines. transformers, reactors, A/R schemes, distribution busbar automation, DCP protocol message mapping, etc.

SHAH & ASSOCIATES, GAITHERSBURG, MD (2013-2014)

PCM Engineer

As PCM Engineer for the Easton 69 KV retrofit substation project, produced control and protection designs meeting client standards with Basler Electric relays. Performed harmonic & arc flash studies and VFD applications for many industrial & service-network facilities and carried out performance assessment for a leading medical research facility in MD.

ALTRAN SOLUTIONS, BEL AIR, MD (2012-2013)

Principal Engineer

Designed PCM for industrial generators & utility distribution substations. Performed studies on breaker ratings & point-on-wave switching. Applied fast trip bus schemes. Produced SEL 300G generator protection settings file & Modbus RTU schemes for metering application. Carried out battery sizing calculation and conducted a generator performance analysis. Important projects

&stations included Iberdrola–RGE station 37 Upstate New York, River-Bay Black Start Standby Generator for Con-Edison, and NYPA-Grand Central Standby generator installation.

MOTT MACDONALD, WESTWOOD, MA (2007-2012)

Principal Engineer

Produced detailed designs of engineering schemes for power generation and transmission system protections, local & remote monitoring, alarms, and SCADA interfacing for overseas gas turbine plant (Kuwait) and 230 kV-system connected wind farm (WF) generator substations in Upstate New York, US. As a technical utility client, provided over two hundred relay settings files for various utility class 115-kV and 345-kV transmission systems and substations owned and operated by National Grid (NG) & NSTAR (New England). The workload undertaken for NG was large by both component count and dollar value.

Projects include:

Kent County, RI 345-kV & Drumrock 115 -kV Transmission Protection Upgrades (2008-2011)

Applied relaying protection upgrades for various 345-kV and 115-kV transmission lines transformers, capacitors & and busbars at these major bulk power substations.

•PCM schemes were applied with full hardware configuration for:

-345 kV lines with SEL 421 (sub-cycle) on POT & Alstom P433 (sub-cycle) on DCB pilots -115 kV lines with SEL 421 / SEL 311L & Erlphase L-PRO

-345 kV/115 kV Busbars with SEL 487B & Erlphase B-PRO

-345 kV/115 kV Transformers with SEL 387 & Erlphase T-PRO -115 kV Capacitors with SEL 351 & Cooper iCP 640

•About 140 settings files were produced for two substations for redundant main protections, backup O/C, auto-reclosing, breaker fail scheme and so on.

•Other substations in NG included Bridge Water, East Main Street & Comeford substations.

Waltham 345 kV Substation-NSTAR (2011-2012)

Designed protection and control schemes for 345 kV lines, busbars & transformers employing SEL 421, Alstom P443, ABB REB 670, SEL 387 and ABB RET relays.

Noble Ryan Wind Farm Substation–New York (2008)

Responsibilities in the WF project included detailed engineering design, relay and metering one-line /three-line diagrams, relay settings for transmission grids, interconnection transformers and substation busbars and collector feeders, etc.

Ministry of Electricity & Water, Kuwait - 275 kV Sabiya Gas Turbine Peaking Power Station (2007-2008)

Responsible for the PCM scheme protecting redundant 275 kV generator busbars with the switch-on plant items, like GSU & transmission system transformers, cable feeders & one-and –a –half bus layout.

PPL ELECTRIC UTILITY, ALLENTOWN, PA (2007)

Electrical Engineer (Contract Employee)

Worked in the substation department and applied protection and control schemes for 69 kV capacitors, non-utility generator connectivity to the power grid, DTT signal trip facility to WF generator stations and produced engineering instructions on instrument transformers.

AREVA-T&D-DUBAI, UAE (2006-2007)

Sr. Electrical Consultant

Prepared relay system specification for a modern bus protection scheme and reports on transient performance of CTs & CVTs. Performed fault analysis, delivered lectures and conducted special studies on transmission system transients. Embarked on vigorous campaigns to promote products and system sales, and to increase the customers’ awareness on long-term protection asset management.

ABU DHABI WATER & ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY, UAE (1982-2006)

Manager-Protection (1990-2006)

Electrical Engineer (1982-1990)

Held visible assignments for protection specification, evaluation, liaison, application, setting calculation, parameterization, commissioning, troubleshooting, fault analysis, training of personnel and networking of fault monitoring systems.

•Engineered protection systems with an achievement of two cycles of fault clearance time for 400kV line faults.

•Executed a number of large and complex substation projects with design and engineering of Substation Control System (SCS) conceived in a hierarchical system of computers with SCADA connectivity.

•Promoted as Manager-Protection and worked in this capacity since June 1990, and became fully responsible until 1999 for selecting, overseeing and managing protection and control systems associated with generating, transmission, distribution and SVC projects.

•Functioned as enthusiastic creative problem solver with a proven background of resolving complicated on-site engineering issues and problems with simple and logical solutions, backed up by strong electrical engineering & relaying theories and analytical skills.

•Designed and engineered a network-wide multi-stage under-frequency load shedding scheme.

•Launched many first-time high investment projects in numeric technology.

•Important projects included 400 kV Al-Taweelah super thermal power station, 400 kV Mossafah substation, 400 kV interconnection to Al Ain, SVC installation in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi 132 kV cable distribution network, etc.

THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC COMPANY (ALSTOM) OF INDIA Ltd., Chennai, India (1972-1982) Senior Protection Application Engineer

Executed many generating, transmission and distribution projects.

•Engineered relaying schemes for diversified switchgear, busbar layouts and CT locations.

•Tested and commissioned the first scheme of circuit breaker failure protection in India (1974).

•Tested and commissioned a wide spectrum of protection systems on all items of plant and equipment used to make up modern 400kV plants and substations in India.

•Developed relaying schemes with settings calculations for pumped storage units, 1+1/2 breaker bus layouts, railway single phase traction, etc.

•Important stations included 220 kV Badarpur thermal station (Delhi), Panki (UP) 400 kV substation, Koradi (Nagpur) thermal & Kota (Rajasthan) 220 kV Substation.

EDUCATION

B.E. (Electrical Engineering), College of Engineering Guindy, Madras, INDIA

ORGANIZATIONS

Senior member-Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

CIGRE Member (1990-2006)

PUBLICATIONS

"Comprehensive generator unit protection from new technology" CIGRE 1996 plenary session, Paris

"Concepts and realization of fault recording system in a large power station,” 6th International Conference, IEE, 24-27 March 1997, Nottingham, UK

"Evolution of high-speed electronic busbar protection - a utility perspective,” GCC CIGRE, Muscat, 30-31 Oct. 1996 "Expert system for automatic performance monitoring of utility power network,” CIGRE 1998 plenary session, Paris

"New communication technologies for enhancing performance of utility substations,” GIGRE symposium, London, June 1999

"Protection and monitoring of high voltage substations: an update on concept, design and engineering “-GIGRE colloquium in Florence, Italy, 1999

"Communication Requirements for Remote Operation of a Computer Controlled Substation,” CIGRE 2000 session, Paris

"Protocol Requirements for Remote Operation of a Substation on Abu Dhabi Power System,” 7th International Conference, IEE, 9-12 April 2001, Amsterdam, Netherlands

“Substation Control System-Present Practices and Future Trends,” CIGRE 2004 session, Paris

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