Asset maintenance planning in electric power distribution network using statistical analysis of outage data
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2012 Elsevier Ltd.
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The problems faced by electric power utilities in developing countries today is that the power demand is
increasing rapidly whereas the supply growth is constrained by aging generating and distributing assets,
scarce resources for constructing new ones and other societal issues. This has resulted in the need for
constructing new additional generating plants and a more economic ways of planning and maintaining
existing Generating and Electric power distribution assets. System planning and maintenance that is
based on reliability – centred asset management approach had been adopted in this paper.
Maintenance of critical asset is an essential part of asset management in distribution network. In most
Electric utilities, planning for maintenance constitutes an essential parts of asset management. In this
paper, an enhanced RCM methodology that is based on a quantitative statistical analysis of outage data
Performed at system/component level for overall system reliability was applied for the identification of
distribution components critical to system reliability. The conclusion from this study shows that it is beneficial
to base asset maintenance management decisions on processed, analyzed and tested outage data.
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Q Science (General), QA Mathematics, QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science