JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Prerequisite

Reliability Engineering

Course Objectives

to prepare the students to:

• describe the generation system model and recursive relation for capacitive model building
• explain the equivalent transitional rates, cumulative probability and cumulative frequency
• develop the understanding of risk, system and load point reliability indices
• explain the basic and performance reliability indices

Course Outcomes

the student will be able to:

• Understand the importance of maintaining reliability of power system components.
• Apply the probabilistic methods for evaluating the reliability of generation and transmission systems.
• Assess the different models of system components in reliability studies.
• Assess the reliability of single area and multi area systems.

UNIT - I: Basic Reliability Concepts

The general reliability function, exponential distribution – Mean time to failures – series and parallel systems. Markov process – continuous Markov process – Recursive techniques – Simple series and parallel system models.

UNIT - II: Generating Capacity – Basic Probability Methods

The generation system model – Loss of load indices – Capacity expansion analysis – scheduled outages. Load forecast uncertainty Loss of energy indices. The frequency and duration method.

UNIT - III: Transmission Systems Reliability Evaluation

Radial configuration – Conditional probability approach – Network configurations – State selection.

UNIT - IV: Generation Planning

Comparative economic assessment of individual generation projects – Investigation and simulation models – Heuristic and linear programming models – Probabilistic generator and load models.

UNIT - V: Transmission and Distribution Planning

Deterministic contingency analysis – Probabilistic transmission system – reliability analysis. Reliability calculations for single area and multi–area power systems. Network configuration design–consisting of schemes – security criteria configuration synthesis.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Roy Billinton and Ronald Allan Pitam: Reliability Evaluation of Power Systems,1996.
• 2. R.L. Sullivan: Power System Planning, McGraw Hill International, 1977.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Wheel Wright and Makridakis: Forecasting methods and Applications, John Wiley, 1992.
• 2. J. Endremyl: Reliability Modelling in Electric Power Systems, John Wiley, 2005.
• 3. International Renewable Energy Agency , Bonn Lecture Series: Planning for the Transformation of Power Systems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbZ2sY_E4QU R19 M. TECH. EPE/EPS M. TECH. I Year II Sem. (EPE/EPS)