Incorporating substation and switching station related outages in composite system reliability evaluation

This thesis presents the development of a new method for incorporating station related outages in composite or bulk system reliability analysis. Station related failures can cause multiple component outages that can propagate to other parts of the network resulting in severe damages. In order to minimize the effects of station related outages on the composite system performance it is necessary for the designer to assess their effects. This task can be achieved by including station related outages in the composite system evaluation. Monte Carlo simulation is used in this research to assess composite system reliability. The new method described in this thesis is used to include station related outages in the reliability evaluation of two composite test systems. This new method is relatively simple and can be used to consider multiple component outages due to station related failures in composite system reliability evaluation. In this approach, the effects of station related outages are combined with the connected terminal failure parameters. Reliability studies conducted on the two composite test systems demonstrates that station failures significantly affect the system performance. The system reliability can be improved by selecting appropriate station configurations. This is illustrated by application to the two composite test systems.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (M.Sc.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical Engineering

Grantor

University of Saskatchewan

Year dc:date.issued

2003

Author dc:creator

• Nighot, Rajesh U

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Billinton, Roy

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Saadat Mehr, Aryan
• Karki, Rajesh
• Gokaraju, Ramakrishna
• Torvi, David A.

• Reliability
• Composite System
• Station
• Monte Carlo Simulation

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-10012003-235413

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:harvest.usask.ca:10388/etd-10012003-235413