A comparison of methods for aging modeling in reliability evaluation of power distribution systems

Electrical power distribution systems are formed from many components which become aged during the time. This aging has a large effect on the reliability level of these systems which cannot be simulated using traditional approaches in reliability assessment of power systems such as renewable models. In this paper, three non renewable models have been investigated to simulate the aging of distribution system equipments. The reliability of a distribution test system has been evaluated using these models and the results are reported and the three models have been compared

Keywords:

power distribution systems , reliability evaluation of power systems , aging equipments , Monte Carlo simulation