A probabilistic approach for animal-caused outages in overhead distribution systems

2006 9th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, PMAPS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sahai, Swati ^a,b   Pahwa, Anil ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b ISO New England   (United States)

^c Kansas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian network model; Failure rate prediction; Overhead power distribution feeders; Power distribution reliability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL POPULATIONS; APPLIED (CO); BAYESIAN MODELLING; BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL (CI); CONFIDENCE LIMIT (CL); DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; HISTORICAL DATA; IN ORDER; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; POPULATION DENSITIES; POWER SYSTEMS; PREDICTED VALUES; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; SIGNIFICANT FACTOR; STRONG CORRELATIONS; TRAINING PURPOSES; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BIODIVERSITY; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; OUTAGES; POWER TRANSMISSION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 46149114376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PMAPS.2006.360321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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