7EE6.1 POWER SYSTEM RELIABILITY
 

1. SYSTEM RELIABILITY: Introduction, definition of reliability, failure, probability, concepts, power quality variation, reliability measurements, power supply quality survey, Reliability aids, and recent development.

2. RELIABILITY CONCEPTS: Measure of reliability rules for combining probabilities, Mathematical expectation. Distributions, reliability theory series and parallel systems, Markov processes. static generating capacity reliability.

3. OUTAGE DEFINITION: Loss of load probability methods, loss of energy probability method. Load forecast, System Design and planning, Strategies for generation, Transmission & Distribution networks. transmission system reliability evaluation-Average interruption rate method. The frequency and duration method.

4. INTERCONNECTED SYSTEM: Generating capacity reliability evaluation introduction. The loss of load approach, reliability evaluation in two and more than two interconnected systems, Interconnection benefits.

5. LOAD FORECASTING: Necessity short-term forecasting by preliminary analysis control, medium term forecasting by field survey method, long-time forecasting by statistical method. Regression analysis. Analysis of time series. Factors in power system loading.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS.

1. Roy Billinton & Ronald N.Allan-Reliability Evaluation of power system volume-I

2. Roy Billinton & Ronald N.Allan-Reliability evaluation of power System volume-II

3. J Endreny-Reliability modelling in electric power system.

4. A.S. Pabla-Electric power distribution.