Computerized algorithm for deducing the minimal cut sets used in substation reliability evaluation.

This paper presents a new technique for the determination of minimal cut sets in substation reliability evaluation. The proposed technique detects events including the malfunction of circuit breakers referred to as stuck-breaker conditions. These selections are important steps in substation reliability evaluation. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is examined by it being applied to breaker-and-a-half, ring bus and radial configurations. The proposed technique can be easily used in the expansion of computer programs in order to obtain the substation reliability indices. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]