A new approach for Leveling Maintenance Cost in electric utilities

Tomiyasu Ichimura, Ken Kuroda, Hideki Magori, Ryuichi Yokoyama

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to solve the Maintenance Cost Leveling Problem in an electric power system, which means to level annual maintenance cost for a fixed period. An ideal maintenance model is defined to solve the problem. The model is the hierarchical maintenance model with two sheaves, the equipment maintenance model and the company maintenance model. The models can explain the maintenance operations in detail and make clear the maintenance structure in the problem. The problem is divided two optimization sub-problems with a hierarchical relation by using the models. The hierarchal optimization problems can be solved approximately. This paper will show that the ideal maintenance model is effective through solving the problem.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIET Conference Publications
PublisherInstitution of Engineering and Technology
Volume2012
Edition616 CP
ISBN (Print)9781849197434
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event9th IET International Conference on Advances in Power System Control, Operation and Management, APSCOM 2012 - Hong Kong
Duration: 2012 Nov 182012 Nov 21

Other

Other9th IET International Conference on Advances in Power System Control, Operation and Management, APSCOM 2012
CityHong Kong
Period12/11/1812/11/21

Keywords

  • Condition based maintenance
  • Cost leveling
  • Hierarchical model
  • Maintenance
  • Multi-objective optimization
  • Partially observable Markov decision processes
  • Reliability based maintenance
  • Semi-Markov decision processes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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