Software de evaluación de confiabilidad y predictivo para circuitos de distribución eléctrica

Abstract

Service quality is a topic of growing importance for electricity distribution companies due to the expansion of their electrical systems and the increasing demand. Demand is of particular concern because new technologies applied in industrial processes are implementing systems that are more sensitive to variations or disturbances, directly impacting production, causing economic losses, and leading to customer dissatisfaction. To improve the problems generated by phenomena such as harmonics, fluctuations, and continuity issues, which are directly associated with the distribution system, an underlying economic problem must be addressed. Theoretically, perfect service quality is possible, but at an infinite cost—a cost that companies are unwilling to bear given the characteristics of the networks they currently operate. Considering this aspect, a balance between economic and technical considerations can be found. This balance would be found by investing in those points where the system is determined to be most vulnerable to failure, since the chain of elements that are interconnected to supply energy is susceptible to losing its electrical and/or mechanical characteristics, due to internal and external conditions such as: material degradation, overload, atmospheric discharges and even lack of maintenance, among others, causing power supply cuts.