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Maintenance Optimization For Substations With Aging Equipment, Haifeng Ge
Maintenance Optimization For Substations With Aging Equipment, Haifeng Ge
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Today’s electric utilities are confronted with a myriad of challenges that include aging infrastructure, enhanced expectation of reliability, reduced cost, and coping effectively with uncertainties and changing regulation requirements. Utilities rely on Asset Management programs to manage inspections and maintenance activities in order to control equipment conditions. However, development of strategies to make sound decisions in order to effectively improve equipment and system reliability while meeting constraints such as a maintenance budget is a challenge.
The primary objective of this dissertation is to develop models and algorithms to study the impact of maintenance toward equipment/system reliability and economic cost, and …