TY - JOUR TI - Research on thermal design control and optimization of relay protection and automation equipment AU - Suo Na AU - Guo Lina JN - Thermal Science PY - 2020 VL - 24 IS - 5 SP - 3119 EP - 3128 PT - Article AB - Relay protection devices and power automation systems are an important product in the power equipment manufacturing industry. They are customarily divided into secondary equipment for the transmission and distribution industry, and are responsible for protecting and controlling the primary equipment of the power grid and measuring the load of the power grid system. Thermal design is a major research topic for the reliability study of relay protection devices. The paper introduces the thermal design process of the relay protection device processing equipment, from the single-chip, module level, etc. to construct and isolate the airway facilities, and uses the FLOTHERM software to simulate the relay protection device model. Thermal simulation can guide the structural design, optimize the structure, make the single-machine structure more reasonable, and the heat dissipation more effective, improving the reliability of the single machine.