Impact of circuit breaker failure modes on the reliability of the gold book standard network

Author

Dong, Joseph ; Koval, Don O. ; Zuo, Ming J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta., Canada

Volume

41

Issue

5

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1323

Lastpage

1328

Abstract

The failure modes of circuit breakers have a significant impact on individual load point reliability levels of industrial power systems. This paper presents and discusses the significant variations in the frequency and duration of load point interruptions in the IEEE Gold Book Standard Network Configuration due to changes in circuit breaker failure modes. The reliability analysis was based on the zone-branch reliability methodology. Five case studies with different percentages of open- and short-circuit failure modes of circuit breakers and fuses will be presented and discussed in detail.

Keywords

IEEE standards; circuit breakers; electric fuses; failure analysis; industrial power systems; power system faults; power system reliability; short-circuit currents; IEEE Gold Book standard network; circuit breakers; fuses; industrial power system; load point interruption; open-circuit failure mode; short-circuit failure mode; zone-branch reliability methodology; Books; Circuit breakers; Frequency; Gold; Industrial power systems; Power engineering and energy; Power system modeling; Power system reliability; Power system restoration; Reliability engineering; Circuit breakers; Gold Book Standard Network; failure modes; reliability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-9994

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIA.2005.855050

Filename

1510830