Filipe Resende is an electrical engineer who graduated from the Federal Technological Education Center of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG) in 2010, holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in 2016 and is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering, also at UFMG. He is currently a technical manager at the company VALE, where he has been since 2012, and a postgraduate professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais PUC-MG, on the course Protection of Electrical Power Systems, where he has been teaching since 2020. Filipe is a member of the IEEE and is part of the working group, within ABNT's CB-003, for the creation of the Brazilian standard on electric arc and incident energy. Filipe has been working for more than 12 years in the field of protection of industrial electrical systems, with a strong focus on arc flash and incident energy.
August 26, 2025The new ABNT NBR 17227 Standard - Electric Arcs: Incident Energy Risk Management, Precautions, Calculation Methods