Protection, automation and control specialists from industry and academia around the world are invited to submit abstracts for PAC World Africa 2013, a conference on power system protection, automation and control.

DATES: 30 July - 2 August 2013
VENUE: Cape Town, South Africa

Papers should cover one or more of the following topics:

1. The future of electricity - PAC challenges of today and tomorrow
2. PAC and smart grid
3. System analysis
4. Standardisation and harmonisation of system models
5. Wide area monitoring and control
6. Communications and their applications
7. IEC 61850, applications and benefits
8. Standard protocols and common data formats
9. Cyber security
10. Multifunctional protection IEDs and their applications in transmission and distribution systems
11. Advanced protection, automation & control functions and applications
12. Adaptive protection
13. System integrity protection schemes (SIPS)
14. Synchrophasors, applications and benefits
15. Testing of devices, distributed functions and systems
16. Power quality
17. Automatic fault analysis
18. Substation automation
19. Distribution automation
20. Home automation
21. Impact of wind power on PAC
22. Distributed energy resources integration
23. Asset management and condition monitoring
24. Engineering of protection, automation and control systems
25. Visualisation, situational awareness
26. Wide area disturbances analysis and lessons learned
27. Protection operation analysis and lessons learned
28. Power system education challenges for professionals and administrators
29. Standardisation of protection, automation and control systems
30. Any other protection, automation and control related topic

Abstracts

Abstracts should be around 500 words. The authors should keep in mind that the focus of their papers should be on presenting challenges, applications, solutions and ideas related to the above topics in a non-commercial and practical manner.

Each abstract should be submitted as a Word document, and should include the following information:

• Topic number (from the list above) with which the paper is associated
• Paper title
• Authors' names
• Authors' affiliation
• Country
• E-mail address of the main author
• Abstract of arround 500 words

Abstracts that do not contain this information will not be considered for acceptance.

Abstracts should be e-mailed to pacwac@pacw.org

Papers

Papers accepted for oral presentation at the conference will be included in the programme. The selection of these papers will be based on the full papers submitted by the authors after the initial abstract acceptance.

Important dates (strictly enforced)

Abstracts deadline: 31 January 2013
Acceptance notification: 28 February 2013
Papers submission: 30 April 2013
 

  

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