Analytical and Monte Carlo approaches to evaluate probability distributions of interruption duration

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1341-1348

  Leite da Silva, Armando M ^a,b   Schmitt, William Frederic ^c   Cassula, Agnelo Marotta ^d   Sacramento, Cleber Esteves ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ITAJUBÁ   (Brazil)

^c PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^e CEMIG Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Distribution reliability; Markov chains; Monte Carlo simulation; Reliability network analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OUTAGES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY;

DISTRIBUTION RELIABILITY; MAXIMUM CONTINUOUS INTERRUPTION DURATION (MCID); RELIABILITY NETWORK ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 24944433165     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2005.851944     Document Type: Article

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