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Lead Author: Courtney Otani Co-author(s): Kurt Vedros, kurt.vedros@inl.gov
| Electrical Substation Configuration Effect on Substation Reliability |
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| The nation’s electrical grid must be reliable because of its critical role in the economy, defense, and security of the nation. Many common tasks and industrial operations rely on proper electrical power distribution. In the design of new bus systems or evaluation of existing bus systems, the type of bus configuration affects the risk, reliability, maintenance, and cost of the system. This work utilizes Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluations (SAPHIRE) to perform a probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) based sensitivity study on the reliability of substations with differing bus configurations. This study examines single bus, breaker and a half, ring, and main and transfer bus configurations applied to busses of varying number of lines. The case variances, methods, and rankings presented can provide a guide for bus configuration for future electrical grid design and analysis. |
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Author and Presentation Info
Lead Author Name: Courtney Otani (courtney.otani@inl.gov)
Bio: Courtney Otani (she/her) earned a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Portland. While at the University of Washington, she was awarded a Clean Energy Institute graduate fellowship in 2019 to study the mixing properties of organic solvents and supercritical carbon dioxide for the purpose of metal organic framework synthesis. Currently she is a risk and reliability engineer/scientist for the Reliability, Risk, and Resilience Sciences department at Idaho National Laboratory. She also works on projects spearheaded in the Hydrogen and Thermal Systems department and the Infrastructure Security department. Her current work includes probabilistic risk assessment for novel nuclear power systems and thermal hydraulic system modeling.
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Company: Idaho National Laboratory
Job Title: PRA Engineer/Scientist
Bio: Courtney Otani (she/her) earned a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Portland. While at the University of Washington, she was awarded a Clean Energy Institute graduate fellowship in 2019 to study the mixing properties of organic solvents and supercritical carbon dioxide for the purpose of metal organic framework synthesis. Currently she is a risk and reliability engineer/scientist for the Reliability, Risk, and Resilience Sciences department at Idaho National Laboratory. She also works on projects spearheaded in the Hydrogen and Thermal Systems department and the Infrastructure Security department. Her current work includes probabilistic risk assessment for novel nuclear power systems and thermal hydraulic system modeling.
Country: ---
Company: Idaho National Laboratory
Job Title: PRA Engineer/Scientist