Impact of altered maintenance cycles on OPEX regarding HV equipment

Author

Asgarieh, Leyla ; Balzer, Gerd ; Gaul, Armin J.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electr. Power & Energy, Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

26-28 April 2010

Firstpage

1429

Lastpage

1434

Abstract

Nowadays the optimized use of financial resources plays a central role in all areas and hence also in electric power companies. Consequential the utilities are anxious to keep the level of the operational expenditures (OPEX) as low as possible. The determination of the capital and operational expenditures (CAPEX and OPEX) will be done with the aid of an evaluated ageing model for 110-kV circuit-breakers. The ageing model was implemented with the simulation software Powersim Studio^® which is based on system dynamics. In this paper the influence of changed overhaul cycles and failure rates on OPEX will be investigated in order to find an optimum relation between these two parameters.

Keywords

activity based costing; ageing; circuit breakers; electrical maintenance; high-voltage engineering; HV Equipment; Powersim Studio software simulation; ageing model; altered maintenance cycles; capital expenditures; circuit-breakers; financial resources; operational expenditures; voltage 110 kV; Aging; Cables; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Costs; Mirrors; Petroleum; Power system modeling; Sulfur hexafluoride;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

MELECON 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference

Conference_Location

Valletta

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5793-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476035

Filename

5476035