A comprehensive study of outage rates of air blast breakers

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 202-210

  Anders, George J ^a   Maciejewski, Henryk ^b   Jesus, Bruno ^c   Remtulla, Faruq ^c  

^a KINECTRICS INC   (Canada)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c ONTARIO HYDRO TECHNOLOGIES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air blast breakers; Failure rates; Outages; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; OUTAGES; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERVICE LIFE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EQUIPMENT AGE; FAILURE RATES; OUTAGE RATES; PROBABILISTIC RISK ANALYSIS; VOLTAGE LEVEL;

AIR BLAST CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 32244448585     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2005.860941     Document Type: Article

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