Title :
Analysis of failure rates of air blast breakers as a function of age and usage
Author :
Anders, George ; Maciejewski, Henryk ; Jesus, Bruno ; Remtulla, Faruq
Author_Institution :
Kinemetrics Inc., Toronto, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
This paper presents an extensive analysis of air blast circuit breaker outages on the Hydro One Transmission System. The aim of the study was to determine the dependencies of breaker failure rates with respect to age, voltage level, manufacturer and operating interventions. Both forced and planned outages were examined. The statistical data base contains 6337 air blast circuit breaker outages on the Hydro One Transmission System. Results are reported in this paper.
Keywords :
air blast circuit breakers; failure analysis; maintenance engineering; transmission networks; Hydro One Transmission System; air blast circuit breaker; breaker failure rate analysis; outages planning; voltage level; Circuit breakers; Cost function; Demography; Equipment failure; Failure analysis; Investments; Manufacturing; Reliability engineering; Timing; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Power Tech Conference Proceedings, 2003 IEEE Bologna
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7967-5
DOI :
10.1109/PTC.2003.1304730
