QUANTITATIVE RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF A HIGH VOLTAGE DIRECT CURRENT TRANSMISSION SYSTEM

Reliability considerations are an important aspect of overall power system design, planning and operation. This thesis illustrates the application of probability techniques to the reliability evaluation of a three phase HVDC bridge composed of mercury arc valves. The approach is developed by which the number of spare valves required to achieve a predetermined reliability level can be obtained for single and multiple bridge configurations. The inversion equipment represents only a part of an overall HVDC transmission scheme. The basic approach is extended in the thesis to the development of a transmission capability probability and frequency table which includes all the major system components. Equivalent simplified probability models are developed from the individual component Markov models. A numerical transmission capability table is illustrated for a hypothetical HVDC configuration:

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (M.Sc.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Grantor

University of Saskatchewan

Year dc:date.issued

1969

Author dc:creator

• Prasad, Vipin

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Billington, R.

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10388/15835

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:harvest.usask.ca:10388/15835