Some aspects of generating unit availability models

Author

Debnath, K. ; Billinton, R.

Author_Institution

Power Syst. Res. Group, Saskatchewan Univ., Saskatoon, Sask., Canada

Volume

4

Issue

1

fYear

1989

fDate

3/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

46

Abstract

A comparison is presented of some of the basic generating unit performance data from the North American Electric Reliability Council-Generating Availability Data System (NERC-GADS) and the Canadian Electrical Association-Equipment Reliability Information System (CEA-ERIS) reporting procedures. The authors also illustrate some of the additional information which can be produced from the continuous state monitoring procedure used by the CEA. This is exemplified by Weibull analysis of state residence time distributions, consideration of the effect of low operating factors for conventional fossil fuel units, and modified models for peaking units

Keywords

electric generators; reliability; thermal power stations; Canada; Weibull analysis; availability models; fossil fuel; generating unit performance; monitoring; operating factors; peaking units; reliability; state residence time distributions; thermal power stations; Availability; Councils; Data systems; Information systems; Monitoring; Power generation; Power system modeling; Power system reliability; Statistical distributions; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/60.23148

Filename

23148