Secondary system reliability assessment of intelligent substation based on fault tree analysis and effect assessment method

Author(s):  
Zhang Jinsong ◽  
Chen Jinmu ◽  
Zhang Yueli ◽  
Yi Tao ◽  
Wang Chengmin
Author(s):  
Yao Li ◽  
Frank PA Coolen

Due to the high failure rates and the high cost of operation and maintenance of wind turbines, not only manufacturers but also service providers try many ways to improve the reliability of some critical components and subsystems. In reality, redundancy design is commonly used to improve the reliability of critical components and subsystems. The load dependencies and failure dependencies among redundancy components and subsystems are crucial to the reliability assessment of wind turbines. However, the redundancy components are treated as a parallel system, and the load correlations among them are ignored in much literature, which may lead to the wrong system’s reliability and much higher costs. For this reason, this article explores the influences of load-sharing on system reliability. The whole system’s reliability is quantitatively evaluated using fault tree analysis and the Markov-chain method. Following this, the optimisation of the redundancy allocation problem considering the load-sharing is conducted to maximise the system reliability and reduce the total cost of the system subjecting to the available system cost and space. The results produced by this methodology can show a realistic reliability assessment of the entire wind turbine from a quantitative point of view. The realistic reliability assessment can help to design a cost-effective and more reliable system and significantly reduce the cost of wind turbines.


2013 ◽  
Vol 347-350 ◽  
pp. 1482-1486
Author(s):  
Bao Rong Zhou ◽  
Xiao Ming Jin ◽  
Jian Bin Chen ◽  
Xin Ze Wang ◽  
Yuan Zeng

Based on the introduction of the station power using system, this paper used fault tree analysis method to model the reliability of station power using system, which had been always ignored in traditional HVDC system reliability evaluation but actually had an important impact on the result of evaluation. Whats more, it assessed the reliability of the whole HVDC system (included station power using system) by means of frequency and duration method. Finally, an example was given to prove the correctness and validity of the proposed theory.


2013 ◽  
Vol 325-326 ◽  
pp. 590-593
Author(s):  
Fei Xiang Wei ◽  
Yang Song ◽  
Xiao Xu Ma ◽  
Ying Qian

The transmission line is an important part of the power system, its reliability will directly affect the reliability of the power system. The reliability of the overhead line plays a crucial role for the power system reliability. This paper analyze the reasons of the falling of the overhead lines, establish a fault tree, and make qualitative and quantitative analysis of the fault tree.


Author(s):  
MARY ANN LUNDTEIGEN ◽  
MARVIN RAUSAND

This article presents a practical approach to reliability assessment of a complex safety instrumented system that is susceptible to common cause failures. The approach is based on fault tree analysis where the common cause failures are included by post-processing the minimal cut sets. The approach is illustrated by a case study of a safety instrumented function of a workover control system that is used during maintenance interventions into subsea oil and gas wells. The case study shows that the approach is well suited for identifying potential failures in complex systems and for including design engineers in the verification of the reliability analyses. Unlike many software tools for fault tree analysis, the approach gives conservative estimates for reliability. The suggested approach represents a useful extension to current reliability analysis methods.


2012 ◽  
Vol 187 ◽  
pp. 304-310
Author(s):  
Xue Wu ◽  
Ci Yuan Xiao ◽  
Xue Yan Xu

The combination method of fault tree analysis and nonlinear fuzzy comprehensive assessment method was proposed to make research of oil & gas pipeline failure .The common factors influencing oil & gas pipeline failure could be determined with fault tree analysis .However , the practical operated oil & gas pipeline often have some individual factors and fuzzy ones .Nonlinear fuzzy comprehensive assessment method could evaluate objectively based on evaluated factors sets and weight sets provided by fault tree analysis .The new model steps were listed by taking the example of oil & gas pipeline failure .The result indicates that the method is more reasonable and easier for engineering application , and the evaluation result is more with the objective reality.


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