Application of Life Data Analysis for the Reliability Assessment of Numerical Overcurrent Relays

Protective relays are components of a protection system in a power system domain that provides decision making element for correct protection and fault clearing operations. Failure of the protection devices may reduce the integrity and reliability of the power system protection that will impact the overall performance of the power system. Hence it is imperative for power utilities to assess the reliability of protective relays to assure it will perform its intended function without failure. This paper will discuss the application of reliability analysis using statistical method called Life Data Analysis in Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), a government linked power utility company in Malaysia, namely Transmission Division, to assess and evaluate the reliability of numerical overcurrent protective relays from two different manufacturers.

Authors:

• Mohd Iqbal Ridwan
• Kerk Lee Yen
• Aminuddin Musa
• Bahisham Yunus

Keywords:

• Life data analysis
• Protective relays
• Reliability
• Weibull Distribution.

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