IEEE Fellow citation presented to Charles Mozina, left, at the IEEE I&CPS Conference in Newport Beach, CA for contributions to protection of electrical power systems.
Largo, Florida – May 17, 2011 – In recognition for contributions to protection of electrical power systems, Charles (Chuck) Mozina has been elevated to Fellow status by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Fellows are elected by the IEEE Board of Directors on the basis of demonstrated outstanding proficiency and achieved distinction in engineering.
Mozina received his IEEE Fellow citation for his contributions to the areas of engineering science through his efforts in the IEEE Power System Relay and IEEE Industrial Application Working Groups.
Accidental off-line energizing of large utility generators became a major industry problem in the 1970’s and 80’s. A large number of generators were severely damaged or completely destroyed costing millions of dollars. Mozina led the effort to address this problem through his chairmanship of an IEEE Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC) Working Group. This effort resulted in major changes to IEEE generator protection guides and standards, including IEEE C37.102, as well as worldwide standards to incorporate this protection as part of the standard complement of generator protection.
Excessive damage of industrial generator stator ground faults was brought to the attention of the IEEE Industrial Application Society (IAS) by a major equipment insurance company. This prompted the formation of an IEEE Industrial Application Working Group in the mid-1990’s to investigate the cause and find a solution to this problem. The working group determined that the accepted ground fault current level was too high and most damage occurred after the generator was tripped due to the coast-down energy. The most practical solution was to implement a new grounding method call Hybrid Grounding which automatically switched the generator ground fault level to a much lower level when a stator ground fault was detected. To date, over 70 industrial generators have been converted to this type of grounding, all attributed to Mozina’s efforts in this IEEE Working Group.
Mozina is currently a Protection and Protection Systems Consultant for Beckwith Electric specializing in power plant and generator protection. His work involves projects relating to protective relay applications, protection system design and coordination.
Mozina is an active 20+ year member of the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC) and is the past chairman of the Rotating Machinery Subcommittee. He is active in the IEEE IAS I&CPS committee, which addresses industrial protection systems. He is the past U.S. representative to the CIGRE Study Committee 34 on System Protection and has chaired a CIGRE working group on generator protection. He also chaired the IEEE task force that produced the tutorial “The Protection of Synchronous Generators,” which won the PES’s 1995 Outstanding Working Group Award. Mozina is the 1993 recipient of the PSRC’s Career Service Award.
Mozina has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and has authored a number of papers and magazine articles on protective relaying. He has over 25 years of experience as a protective engineer at Centerior Energy, a major investor-owned utility in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was the Manager of the System Protection Section. For over ten years, he was Application Manager for Protection Products with Beckwith Electric. He is also a former instructor in the Graduate School of Electrical Engineering at Cleveland State University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Ohio and an IEEE Life Fellow.
About Beckwith Electric
Founded in 1967, Beckwith Electric introduced the first solid state tapchanger control in 1968, and was the first to develop the microprocessor protective relay in 1981. Today, Beckwith Electric has thousands of protection and control units in service worldwide, with a reputation for cutting-edge technology, defined by its customers and refined by Beckwith. This success starts with Beckwith Electric Employees and their commitment to quality in the products, all 100% designed and manufactured in Largo, Florida, U.S.A.
Beckwith’s field-proven smart distribution automation controls for transformers, regulators and capacitor banks incorporate unique control strategies, advanced microprocessor architecture and cyber security compliant communications. Power systems protection solutions include generator, transformer, feeder, recloser and distributed generation applications. Specialized synchronizing and motor bus transfer systems are also offered.
Beckwith Electric’s customers include power utilities, heavy industrial and large institutional markets, and their consultants.
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