The influence of protection system failures and preventive maintenance on protection systems in distribution systems

Author

Meeuwsen, J.J. ; Kling, W.L. ; Ploem, W.A.G.A.

Author_Institution

Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

1997

fDate

1/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

125

Lastpage

133

Abstract

Protection systems in power networks can fail either by not responding when they should (failure to operate) or by operating when they should not (false tripping). The former type of failure is particularly serious since it may result in the isolation of large sections of the power network. However, the probability of a failure to operate can be reduced by carrying out preventive maintenance on protection systems. This paper describes an approach to determine the impact of preventive maintenance on distribution network protection systems on the reliability of the power supply to customers. The proposed approach is based on Markov models

Keywords

Markov processes; distribution networks; failure analysis; maintenance engineering; power supply quality; power system protection; power system reliability; Markov models; distribution systems; failure to operate; power supply reliability; preventive maintenance; protection system failures; Circuit breakers; Circuit faults; Communication channels; Power system faults; Power system protection; Power system relaying; Power system reliability; Preventive maintenance; Protective relaying; Statistical distributions;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/61.568232

Filename

568232