Assessing Resilience in Power Grids as a Particular Case of Supply Chain Management (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781249602781)

Electrical power grids represent a critical infrastructure for a nation as well as strategically important. Literature review identified that power grids share basic characteristics with Supply Chain Management. This thesis presents a linear programming model to assess power grid resilience as a particular case of Supply Chain Management. Since resilient behavior is not an individual or specific system's attribute but a holistic phenomenon based on the synergic interaction within complex systems, resilience drivers in power grids were identified. Resilience is a function of Reliability, Recovery Capability, Vulnerability and Pipeline Capacity. In order to embed heterogeneous variables into the model, parameterization of resilience drivers were developed. A principle of improving resilience through redundancy was applied in the model by using a virtual redundancy in each link which allows reliability improvement throughout the entire network.

Author: Gabriel Alejandro Montoya
ISBN-10: 1249602785
ISBN-13: 9781249602781
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2012
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.40d