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Reliability Fundamentals for Electric Power
Engineers
Louie Powell, P.E.
Overview
In general terms, reliability
is a property of a system that describes the likelihood that the system will
successfully perform as intended. In the most exact terms, reliability is
the statistical probability that the system will be able to perform its intended
mission.
In this course, you will learn
how to assess power system reliability quantitatively, and how to interpret the
results of this numerical understanding of reliability. This course will
give you an introduction to the fundamental concepts of reliability technology
as applied to electric power systems serving industrial and commercial
facilities. Because it is not possible to talk about the reliability without
looking at the reliability of the electric utility system that supplies these
installations, we will also spend some time with the techniques used to assess
reliability of larger systems as well.
Although the specifics of
electric utility system reliability are briefly covered, the majority of the
information on reliability in this course is applicable to other disciplines.
For example, the concepts of Availability, Mean Time to Failure and the
relationship between components in series versus components in parallel apply
equally to an electrical circuit or a chemical process.
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of
twenty-five (25) questions at the end of
this course to obtain PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Attained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and
skills:
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What is reliability?
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Calculating failure
rate and repair time for components
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What are
availability, mean time to failure and mean time to repair
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Building a
reliability model
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Series vs. parallel
components
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Calculating failure
rate and repair time for systems
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Reliability analysis
by network reduction vs. simulation
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Finding reliability
data needed to build a model
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Electric utility
distribution reliability
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Determining best
practices for system optimization by inspection
Course
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Reliability Fundamentals for Electric Power Engineers (125 KB)
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