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The impact of high-voltage circuit breaker condition on power system reliability indices
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  • Jordon Grant,
  • Iver Bakken Sperstad,
  • Vijay Venu Vadlamudi,
  • Samuel Perkin,
  • Erlend Kiel
Jordon Grant
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Corresponding Author:jordon.a.grant@ntnu.no

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Iver Bakken Sperstad
SINTEF Energy Research
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Vijay Venu Vadlamudi
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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Samuel Perkin
Straumlind
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Erlend Kiel
SINTEF Energy Research
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Abstract

Condition monitoring data can be used to assess the health of a power system component but is rarely used to assess the reliability of the power system they are part of. For high-voltage circuit breakers (HVCBs), the susceptibility to various failures can be assessed by examining trip coil current (TCC) measurements. HVCBs have two failure modes, failure to trip on command and tripping without a command, which are triggered by various failure mechanisms that in turn may depend on the technical condition of the HVCBs. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate a methodology for quantifying the impact that the technical condition of HVCBs has on the power system reliability indices. An equivalent transmission line failure rate considering protection system failures, including failures related to HVCBs, can be calculated by computing contributions from various fault types (FTs). This paper proposes a framework that can quantify the frequency of the FTs that are affected by HVCB condition. The system-level effects are then evaluated using approximate methods for power system reliability evaluation. To demonstrate the principles and benefits of this methodology, a case study is presented that incorporates HVCB condition data from the Icelandic transmission grid into an illustrative 4-bus test system; a dataset of 83 TCC measurements from 38 HVCBs from the Icelandic Transmission System Operator is used, together with an outage database of life histories of 464 HVCBs from the Icelandic transmission grid. Results indicate that the condition deterioration associated with the probability of an HVCB failing to trip on command can significantly degrade the reliability indices.
22 Aug 2024Submitted to IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
23 Aug 2024Submission Checks Completed
23 Aug 2024Assigned to Editor
11 Sep 2024Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
29 Sep 2024Reviewer(s) Assigned
08 Nov 2024Editorial Decision: Accept