PQ05 Reliability of Electricity Supply

1. Concept of reliability
Illustration: System and equipment
2. Basics
Need in emergency situations
Indices: MTTR, MTTF, MTBF
Definitions and concepts; Dependability, probability (of failure), availability,
reliability, redundancy, independence, continuity and finally bottlenecks and
resilience
3. Schemes of electrical grid
Description; radial obsolete, double radial, ring, meshed and compound
Evaluation: advantages and disadvantages - comparison among schemes
4. Equipment
Supply sources: public network, static UPS, dynamic UPS, gen sets
Circuits special provisions fire explosion, being independent
Protective devices in case of UPS
Appendix A: System
Analysis for improvement option in office building
Appendix B: UPS - Process industry
Case from 7/24 continuous production of bopp (the bioriented polypropylene). Cost /
benefit analysis
Appendix C: UPS - Climate control centre
Case from research centre with large computers - challenge for continuity
LPQI library particularly about UPS design