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Reliability worth assessment of an automatic loop restoration scheme for urban distribution networks

Kazemi, S ; Sharif University of Technology

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/ISGTEUROPE.2010.5638943
  3. Abstract:
  4. Distribution automation (DA) application for fault management in the electricity distribution networks is one of the main potential remedial actions to reduce customers' outage times and hence improve service reliability. As a result, various automation schemes have been developed and introduced in different countries and by different venders. The impacts of implementing a specific automation scheme on reliability indices of a given distribution system can be different from other available automation schemes. For this reason, when comparing the available automation schemes with each other or with the other reliability improvement measures, it is necessary to perform a course of reliability worth assessment activities in the related decision making process. This paper aims to quantitatively assess the reliability worth of employing an Automatic Loop Restoration Scheme (ALRS) for urban distribution networks. Distributed intelligence and peer-to-peer communication are the main features of this feeder automation scheme. An urban distribution reliability test system is utilized in this paper to perform the reliability worth assessment analyses
  5. Keywords:
  6. Automatic loop restoration scheme ; Distribution automation ; Reliability worth assessment ; Urban distribution network ; Assessment activities ; Automation scheme ; Decision making process ; Distributed intelligence ; Distribution systems ; Electricity distribution networks ; Fault management ; Feeder automation ; Outage time ; Peer-to-peer communications ; Reliability improvement ; Reliability Index ; Reliability worth ; Remedial actions ; Service reliability ; Urban distribution ; Automation ; Decision making ; Distributed parameter networks ; Electric utilities ; Innovation ; Rating ; Restoration ; Reliability
  7. Source: IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe, ISGT Europe ; 2010
  8. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5638943