Study on Reliability of PACSs with Integrated Consideration of Both Basic and Mission Reliability

Xinzhi Chen () and Long Jin
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Xinzhi Chen: School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Long Jin: School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

Energies, 2024, vol. 17, issue 2, 1-20

Abstract: Protective relays play a fundamental role in power systems, whose functions consist of three parts, namely protection, automation, and control, thus called the PAC altogether. It turns out that the architecture of a PACS (protection, automation, and control system) may exert a direct impact on the reliability of protective relay systems, previous studies of which are often conducted on the assumption that intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) have a constant fault rate with only mission reliability of the systems considered. To obtain a more accurate evaluation of system reliability bearing system maintenance in mind, this article proposes a novel method to appraise the reliability of PACSs with integrated consideration of basic and mission reliability. Firstly, the basic reliability of IEDs is calculated by parts count prediction, which will provide a more precise fault rate of IEDs. Secondly, the reliability of PACSs is analyzed by the reliability diagram and Markov model. By using the parts count prediction method to calculate the failure rate of the device, the steady-state probability rate will be accurate more than 0.0107%. At last, a quantitative criterion is finalized for selecting a suitable architecture easily.

Keywords: protective relay; PACS; mission reliability; basic reliability; parts count prediction; Markov model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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