This presentation reviews the established principles and the advanced aspects of the selection and application of protective relays in the overall protection system, multifunctional numerical devices application for power distribution and industrial systems, and addresses some. This presentation reviews the established principles and the advanced aspects of the selection and application of protective relays in the overall protection system, multifunctional numerical devices application for power distribution and industrial systems, and addresses some. Core idea: Protective relays monitor electrical quantities and command protective devices to isolate faults or abnormal operating conditions. Engineering use: Relays are used on feeders, transformers, buses, motors, generators, and transmission lines to protect equipment and improve system. Protective relays and devices have been developed over 100 years ago to provide “last line” of defense for the electrical systems. They are intended to quickly identify a fault and isolate it so the balance of the system continue to run under normal conditions. In electrical engineering, a protective relay is a relay device designed to trip a circuit breaker when a fault is detected. A basic relay uses a coil and contacts to turn a load on or off, while a power system protective relay monitors current, voltage, frequency, impedance, or phase angle and sends. The tendencies and perspective directions of development of modern digital devices of relay protection and automation (RPA) are considered. They. This handbook covers the code of practice in protection circuitry including standard lead and device numbers, mode of connections at terminal strips, colour codes in multicore cables, dos and donts in execution.