Aging Power Delivery Infrastructures

ISBN-13: 9781138072985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 820 str.

H. Lee Willis; Randall R. Schrieber

Opis

This book looks at the basics of equipment aging and its system and business impacts on utilities. It covers various maintenance, service and retrofit methods available to mitigate age-related deterioration of equipment. It presents numerous configuration and automation upgrades at the system level that can deal with higher portions of aging equipment in the system and still provide good service at a reasonable cost.

Spis treści

Aging Power Delivery Infrastructures. Power Delivery Systems. Customer Demand for Power and Reliability of Service. Power System Reliability and Reliability of Service. Cost and Economic Evaluation. Equipment Inspection, Testing, and Diagnostics. Aging Equipment and Its Impacts. Obsolete System Structures. Traditional Reliability Engineering Tools and Their Limitations. Primary Distribution Planning and Engineering Interactions. Equipment Condition Assessment. Optimization. Planning Methods for Aging T&D Infrastructures. Planning Reliability of an Aging System. T&D Equipment Management Philosophies. Case Study: Wood Distribution Pole Management. Guidelines and Recommendations. Notes on a Spreadsheet-Based Model for Aging Trends. Sustainable Point Analysis.

O autorze

H. Lee Willis, Randall R. Schrieber