This book looks at the basics of equipment aging and its system and business impacts on utilities. It covers various maintenance, service and retrofit methods available to mitigate age-related deterioration of equipment. It presents numerous configuration and automation upgrades at the system level that can deal with higher portions of aging equipment in the system and still provide good service at a reasonable cost.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Aging Power Delivery Infrastructures
Chapter 2 : Power Delivery Systems
Chapter 3 : Customer Demand for Power and Reliability of Service
Chapter 4 : Power System Reliability and Reliability of Service
Chapter 5 : Cost and Economic Evaluation
Chapter 6 : Equipment Inspection, Testing, and Diagnostics
Chapter 7 : Aging Equipment and Its Impacts
Chapter 8 : Obsolete System Structures
Chapter 9 : Traditional Reliability Engineering Tools and Their Limitations
Chapter 10 : Primary Distribution Planning and Engineering Interactions
Chapter 11 : Equipment Condition Assessment
Chapter 12 : Optimization
Chapter 13 : Planning Methods for Aging T&D Infrastructures
Chapter 14 : Planning Reliability of an Aging System
Chapter 15 : T&D Equipment Management Philosophies
Chapter 16 : Case Study : Wood Distribution Pole Management
Chapter 17 : Guidelines and Recommendations
Chapter 18 : Notes on a Spreadsheet-Based Model for Aging Trends
Chapter 19 : Sustainable Point Analysis
Index
