JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Prerequisite

Reliability Engineering

Course Objectives:

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

Course Outcomes

After completion of the course, students 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, the 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.

TEXTBOOKS:

• 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. M. Tech – II Semester L T P C 3 0 0 3