Maintenance scheduling approach

Abstract EN

This paper proposes a simple and efficient technique of preventive maintenance scheduling for generating systems, based on a reliability index called “Energy Index of Reliability, EIR”.

The EIR has been chosen among other reliability indices since other important information affecting the maintenance schedule such as unit energy production, unserved energy, and their costs can be directly evaluated using the same algorithm used for the EIR evaluation without extra computational efforts.

To substantiate the methodology proposed, applications to the IEEE Reliability Test System (IEEE-RTS) and to the Saudi Consolidated Electric Company in the central region (SCECOc) as a practical system model have been conducted and the desired results obtained.