International Society of Science and Applied Technologies |
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Optimal Crew Site Visit to Improve the Reliability of Electricity Distribution Networks | ||||
Author | Dzung T. Phan
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Co-Author(s) | Yada Zhu; Jayant Kalagnanam
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Abstract | This paper addresses the crew site visit scheduling problem whose purpose is to reduce the unplanned power outage causing by digging activities nearby underground cables. It is known that a supervisory crew visiting a digging event can significantly curtail the failure probability. However, due to limited workforce, a power distribution company cannot assign crew to visit all registered digging events. In this paper, a predictive model is deployed to obtain the failure probability for each event. A mathematical formulation and a branch-and-cut algorithm are introduced so as to give an optimal solution based on the predicted failure probability. A case study on a real-world electricity distribution network in the Netherlands is presented to show the efficiency of the proposed approach.
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Keywords | electricity network, digging event, outage cost, travel cost, predictive modeling, integer linear programming | |||
Article #: 21222 |
August 6-8, 2015 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvia, U.S.A. |