Asset management and maintenance programming for power distribution systems: A review

Abstract

Security and continuous proper functioning of the power system is a vital issue for supplying demands. Providing an acceptable level of reliability and necessity of that in all parts of the power system, from generation to distribution, has always been, and remains a major concern for network managers. Asset management and performing regular and routine maintenance activities has a considerable impact on ensuring system reliability, reducing expensive crashes, and preventing shutdowns. Up to now, much research has been done on the proper planning of maintenance in different parts of the network with a focus on cost savings, improved system performance and reliability, and reduced shutdowns. The purpose of this article is to review the findings of the study and to provide a more comprehensive view of the maintenance planning issue.

Advanced distribution transformer asset management embracing its relocation: A cost saving approach

“…RlC comprises mainly labor costs employed for DT uninstallation (from the current substation), DT transportation (from one location to another location), and DT reinstallation (in a new substation) along with relocation costs of other ancillary equipment like switches, sectionalizer, main board, fuses, etc. Equation (15) evaluates the relocation cost if a DT is going to be relocated from substation i to k. In this paper, RlC simply is modeled as the product of a DT purchase cost by a percentage factor (𝛼 r ) for relocation.…”

“…This paper mainly focuses on the development of mid-term AM procedures. The maintenance tasks, as the central contribution of a mid-term AM, include: time-based preventive, condition-based preventive, reliability-centered preventive, and corrective maintenance that are comprehensively reviewed in [14], [15]. An effective maintenance strategy satisfying the reliability and economic constraints is presented in [7], and several RCM strategies are proposed in [16][17][18].…”

An optimum budget‐based development in maintenance for electric power transmission networks

“…References [1,3,4] present a comprehensive review of maintenance scheduling for generation, transmission, and distribution systems covering different economic and reliability standards; [2,5] review the uncertainty modelling techniques in power system analyses, respectively.…”

“…They have numerous physical assets which are widely scattered all over the world. They are also connected by long transmission lines comprised of complicated types of equipment that have the assignment of transmitting electrical energy from power plants to customers [1]. Therefore, the necessity of a Reliability‐Centred Maintenance (RCM) plan for transmission network equipment as blood vessels that carry electricity to a country's organs becomes inevitable [2].…”

Bibliometric Overview and Retrospective Analysis of Asset Management Research between 1965 and 2020

“…Asset management is a strategic and integrated process involving various disciplines such as engineering, operations, management and maintenance, the aim of which is to gain the greatest lifetime benefits and returns on assets (Amadi-Echendu et al, 2010;Laue et al, 2014;Mirhosseini & Keynia, 2021). Asset management needs the participation of different areas, primarily human activities, to manage individuals who control assets and incorporate asset-related policies in the operational and organisational frameworks, particularly asset maintenance (Nel & Jooste, 2016).…”