Assessment of Electronic (Analogue and Numeric) Protection Equipment
Reference Number
NIA_NGET0146
Title
Assessment of Electronic (Analogue and Numeric) Protection Equipment
Status
Completed
Energy Categories
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution)
Research Types
Applied Research and Development
Science and Technology Fields
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation
Not Cross-cutting
Principal Investigator
Project Contact
National Grid Electricity Transmission
National Grid Electricity Transmission
Award Type
Network Innovation Allowance
Funding Source
Ofgem
Start Date
01 April 2014
End Date
28 February 2015
Duration
11 months
Total Grant Value
£313,000
Industrial Sectors
Manufacturing
Region
London
Programme
Web Site
Objectives
The objectives are :
- To identify the critical life limiting elements within electronic protection devices
- Establish assessment and testing criteria to determine deterioration mechanisms and rates.
- Undertake testing on specific equipment types to establish current and expected deterioration.
- Evaluate results of testing to determine asset lives for the equipment types concerned
- Based on these results it will consider and recommend if the life limiting factors can be addressed by methods other than equipment replacement.
- Establishment of a process to evaluate electronic protection equipment design, identify the life limiting critical elements and deterioration mechanisms leading to failure.
- Identify tests and assessment techniques to evaluate the current state deterioration, the affecting factors, expected deterioration rates and time to failure.
- Successful application of these tests and assessments on specific equipment types.
- Evaluation of the anticipated asset life for the specific equipment types tested
- Provision of options to address life limiting factors.
Abstract
The scope of the project will establish the techniques and processes to be used on these equipment types.
These techniques and processes will be applied to a specific number of relay types to validate the process and evaluate the lives of these specific equipment types.
The specific equipment types selected will be those predominantly in service on the transmission network which current policy would require to be replaced in the next 5 years.
The establishment of a successful evaluation process for asset life would then be utilised as a research method to evaluate asset lives on other specific equipment types.
These techniques and processes will be applied to a specific number of relay types to validate the process and evaluate the lives of these specific equipment types.
The specific equipment types selected will be those predominantly in service on the transmission network which current policy would require to be replaced in the next 5 years.
The establishment of a successful evaluation process for asset life would then be utilised as a research method to evaluate asset lives on other specific equipment types.
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