IEEE Gold Book Working Group
Reno, Nevada, 3 May 1999.
Present: Robert Arno, Math Bollen, William Braun, Robert Gauger, Charles Heising, Prem Khera, Don Koval, Pat O’Donnell, Peyton Hale, James Bright, Dave Vetterich (guest), Don Bohlin (guest), Greg Kohn (IEEE Standards), Yvette Ho Sang (IEEE Standards).
- The meeting was called to order by the chair (Don Koval), all those present introduced themselves, and an attendance list was circulated.
- The minutes of the 12 October 1998 meeting were approved.
- Reports were presented of three working groups that met earlier this day: equipment reliability; reliability analysis techniques; and voltage sags.
- The main discussion during the meeting was about the order and contents of the various chapters in the next edition (to be published somewhere between 2002 and 2007). The status at the end of the discussion may be summarized as follows (old chapter numbers between brackets).
(1) Introduction
(2) Planning and design
(3) Summary of equipment reliability data. An updated chapter will be produced by the equipment reliability working group by using the Army data.
(4) Evaluating and improving reliability of existing plant. This chapters is considered outdated. The proposal is to ask James Bright to rewrite this chapter from the perspective of integrated protection and control.
(5) Electric preventive maintenance. The Army definitions will be used, but unfortunately the Army will not analyse the impact of “maintenance quality” on equipment failure rate, as in the current Chapter 5.
(6) Emergency and standby power. This chapter will be rewritten by the Orange Book working group. Pat O’Donnell is our liaison.
(7) Examples of reliability analysis and cost evaluation. This chapter will be rewritten by the reliability analysis techniques working group. We are considering changing the order of chapters 7 and 8 or merging them into one chapter: techniques and examples. The cut-set method needs to be explained by using examples.
(8) Basic concepts of reliability analysis by probability analysis. This chapter will be rewritten together with chapter 7.
Monte Carlo simulation and other advanced analysis tools may become a separate chapter.
(9) Predicting voltage sags and reliability analysis.
(10) Reliability compliance testing
(11) Reliability / availability guarantees of gas turbine and combined cycle generation units. Charles Heising suggested to upgrade the existing Appendix M to a chapter.
- Greg Kohn and Yvette Ho Sang from IEEE Standards introduced themselves and presented some of the things IEEE Standards is able to do for us. They stated that IEEE Standard will be able to help us more than in the past, assuming that we will get them involved as early as possible in the format of chapter text and figures. IEEE Standards will also set up a website for the exchange of documents.
- Again several items on the agenda have not been discussed. These are moved to the next meeting.
- The meeting was adjourned by the chair.
Math Bollen, 16 May 1999