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The volume presents the research work in understanding, modeling and quantifying the risks associated with different ways of implementing smart grid technology in power systems in order to plan and operate a modern power system with an acceptable level of reliability. Power systems throughout the world are undergoing significant changes creating new challenges to system planning and operation in order to provide reliable and efficient use of electrical energy. The appropriate use of smart grid technology is an important drive in mitigating these problems, and requires considerable research activities, some of which (by researchers from academia and industry) are included in this volume: the reliability appraisal of smart grid technologies and their applications, micro-grids, assessment of plug-in hybrid vehicles and the system effects, smart system protection and reliability evaluation, demand response and smart maintenance of power system equipment.

Power (Mechanics) --- Energy --- Mechanics --- Renewable energy sources. --- System safety. --- Energy Systems. --- Renewable and Green Energy. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Accidents --- Industrial safety --- Systems engineering --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Prevention --- Energy systems. --- Renewable energy resources. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products

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With the introduction of various types of incentives for renewable sources based electricity generation, the world is witnessing the rapid growth in wind, solar, biomass and other renewable based generation. Unlike electricity generation schemes based on conventional energy sources, wind power systems suffer from the uncertainty of wind availability and variability of the wind speed. In this regard, this volume intends to bring out the original research work of researchers from academia and industry in understanding, quantifying and managing the risks associated with the uncertainty in wind variability in order to plan and operate a modern power system integrated with significant proportion of wind power generation with an acceptable level of reliability. The accurate prediction of wind speed variability is very important for operation of electric power system in secure and safe environment and will play a crucial role in defining the requirement of various types of services such as ancillary services in the power system. This may also affect the electricity market strategy of conventional resources based power producers in the power market.

Methodology of economics --- Economics --- Relation between energy and economics --- Applied physical engineering --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Production management --- Business management --- Business economics --- biomassa --- financieel management --- duurzame energie --- energie-economie --- bedrijfseconomie --- hernieuwbare energie --- economie --- milieuzorg --- kwaliteitscontrole --- ingenieurswetenschappen

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This book describes the basic concepts of risk and reliability with detailed descriptions of the different levels of probabilistic safety assessment of nuclear power plants (both internal and external). The book also maximizes readers insights into time dependent risk analysis through several case studies, whilst risk management with respect to non renewable energy sources is also explained. With several advanced reactors utilizing the concept of passive systems, the reliability estimation of these systems are explained in detail with the book providing a reliability estimation of components through mechanistic model approach. This book is useful for advanced undergraduate and post graduate students in nuclear engineering, aerospace engineering, industrial engineering, reliability and safety engineering, systems engineering and applied probability and statistics. This book is also suitable for one-semester graduate courses on risk management of non renewable energy systems in all conventional engineering branches like civil, mechanical, chemical, electrical and electronics as well as computer science. It will also be a valuable reference for practicing engineers, managers and researchers involved in reliability and safety activities of complex engineering systems.

Energy. --- Nuclear Energy. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Operating Procedures, Materials Treatment. --- Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. --- System safety. --- Structural control (Engineering). --- Sécurité des systèmes --- Contrôle des structures (Ingénierie) --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Nuclear Engineering --- Power resources --- Nonrenewable natural resources. --- Fossil fuels --- Management. --- Fossil energy --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Non-renewable natural resources --- Exhaustible resources --- Natural resources, Nonrenewable --- Nonrenewable natural resources --- Economic aspects --- Nuclear energy. --- Statistics. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Industrial engineering. --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- Fuel --- Energy minerals --- Manufactures. --- Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes. --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Manufactured goods --- Manufactured products --- Products --- Products, Manufactured --- Commercial products --- Manufacturing industries --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Accidents --- Industrial safety --- Systems engineering --- Prevention --- Statistics . --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products --- Atomic energy --- Atomic power --- Energy, Atomic --- Energy, Nuclear --- Nuclear power --- Power, Atomic --- Power, Nuclear --- Force and energy --- Nuclear physics --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear power plants

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Reliability and safety are core issues that must be addressed throughout the life cycle of engineering systems. Reliability and Safety Engineering presents an overview of the basic concepts, together with simple and practical illustrations. The authors present reliability terminology in various engineering fields, viz., • electronics engineering, • software engineering, • mechanical engineering, • structural engineering, and • power systems engineering. They describe the latest applications in the area of probabilistic safety assessment, such as technical specification optimization, risk monitoring and risk informed in-service inspection. Reliability and safety studies must, inevitably, deal with uncertainty, so the book includes uncertainty propagation methods: Monte Carlo simulation, fuzzy arithmetic, Dempster-Shafer theory and probability bounds. Reliability and Safety Engineering also highlights advances in system reliability and safety assessment including dynamic system modeling and uncertainty management. Case studies from typical nuclear power plants, as well as from structural, software, and electronic systems are also discussed. Reliability and Safety Engineering combines discussions of the existing literature on basic concepts and applications with state-of-the-art methods used in reliability and risk assessment of engineering systems. It is designed to assist practicing engineers, students and researchers in the areas of reliability engineering and risk analysis.

Industrial safety. --- Reliability (Engineering). --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Industrial safety --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Materials Science --- Technology - General --- Industrial & Management Engineering --- Structural stability. --- Stability of structures --- Structures, Stability of --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- Reliability of equipment --- Systems reliability --- Prevention --- Engineering. --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Electric power production. --- Automotive engineering. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Power electronics. --- Nuclear engineering. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Nuclear Engineering. --- Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks. --- Automotive Engineering. --- Energy Technology. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Accidents --- System safety --- Atomic power engineering --- Engineering --- Nuclear physics --- Nuclear energy --- Electronics, Power --- Electric power --- Electronics --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products --- Electric power generation --- Electricity generation --- Power production, Electric --- Electric power systems --- Electrification --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Government policy --- Stability --- Safety factor in engineering --- Structural failures --- Maintainability (Engineering) --- Probabilities --- Systems engineering --- Plant performance --- System safety. --- Production of electric energy or. --- Nuclear Energy. --- Energy Systems. --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Nuclear energy. --- Energy systems. --- Atomic energy --- Atomic power --- Energy, Atomic --- Energy, Nuclear --- Nuclear power --- Power, Atomic --- Power, Nuclear --- Force and energy --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear power plants

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This book discusses action-oriented, concise and easy-to-communicate goals and challenges related to quality, reliability, infocomm technology and business operations. It brings together groundbreaking research in the area of software reliability, e-maintenance and big data analytics, highlighting the importance of maintaining the current growth in information technology (IT) adoption in businesses, while at the same time proposing process innovations to ensure sustainable development in the immediate future. In its thirty-seven chapters, it covers various areas of e-maintenance solutions, software architectures, patching problems in software reliability, preventive maintenance, industrial big data and reliability applications in electric power systems. The book reviews the ways in which countries currently attempt to resolve the conflicts and opportunities related to quality, reliability, IT and business operations, and proposes that internationally coordinated research plans are essential for effective and sustainable development, with research being most effective when it uses evidence-based decision-making frameworks resulting in clear management objectives, and is organized within adaptive management frameworks. Written by leading experts, the book is of interest to researchers, academicians, practitioners and policy makers alike who are working towards the common goal of making business operations more effective and sustainable.

Business. --- Management. --- Industrial management. --- Production management. --- Big data. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Business and Management. --- Big Data/Analytics. --- Operations Management. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Information technology. --- Business enterprises. --- Business organizations --- Businesses --- Companies --- Enterprises --- Firms --- Organizations, Business --- Business --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- System safety. --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Accidents --- Industrial safety --- Systems engineering --- Manufacturing management --- Industrial management --- Data sets, Large --- Large data sets --- Data sets --- Prevention --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Industrial organization --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products