Reliability Estimation of Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems: Boolean Truth Table Method

Author

Rahmat, Mohd K. ; Jovanovic, Slobodan ; Lo, Kwok L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow

fYear

2006

fDate

10-14 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper investigates the application of the Boolean truth table modelling method in estimating the reliability parameters such as the system´s failure rates and mean time between failures (MTBF), for the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. All possible state combinations (operating and failed states) of the major components in the UPS systems were listed and their effects on overall system were studied. The method was applied to five UPS configurations and the results obtained were compared to the results from other reliability estimation method such as the reliability block diagram (RBD) method and field data estimation method

Keywords

Boolean algebra; logic design; parameter estimation; reliability; uninterruptible power supplies; Boolean truth table; MTBF; failure rates; mean time between failures; reliability parameter estimation; uninterruptible power supply systems; Availability; Instruments; Maintenance; Manufacturing; Parameter estimation; Power supplies; Power system analysis computing; Power system modeling; Power system reliability; Uninterruptible power systems; Failure rates; Reliability estimation. Boolean Truth Table; Uninterruptible power supply;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Energy Conference, 2006. INTELEC '06. 28th Annual International

Conference_Location

Providence, RI

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0430-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0431-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INTLEC.2006.251636

Filename

4018138