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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786242203321

Autore

Willis H. Lee <1949, >

Titolo

Aging power delivery infrastructures / / H. Lee Willis, Randall R. Schrieber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, , 2013

ISBN

1-351-83254-9

1-315-21665-5

1-4398-9691-7

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (801 p.)

Collana

Power Engineering (Willis)

Classificazione

SCI000000TEC007000TEC008000

Altri autori (Persone)

SchrieberRandall R

Disciplina

333.793/2

Soggetti

Electric power systems - Reliability

Electric power systems - Deterioration

Electric power distribution - Costs

Electric power failures

Electric utilities - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revised edition of: Aging power delivery infrastructures / H. Lee Willis, Gregory V. Welch, Randall R. Schrieber. 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; 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 AssessmentChapter 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; Appendix A: Notes on a Spreadsheet-Based Model for Aging Trends; Appendix B: Sustainable



Point Analysis; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

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--