A Post-Disaster Fault Recovery Model for Distribution Networks Considering Road Damage and Dual Repair Teams

• Published in: Energies
• Main Authors: Wei Liu, Qingshan Xu, Minglei Qin, Yongbiao Yang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2024-10-01
• Subjects: distribution network fault; extreme disaster recovery; fault recovery; resilient distribution networks; transportation and distribution networks
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/20/5020

Extreme weather, such as rainstorms, often triggers faults in the distribution network, and power outages occur. Some serious faults cannot be repaired by one team alone and may require equipment replacement or engineering construction crews to work together. Rainstorms can also lead to road damage or severe waterlogging, making some road sections impassable. Based on this, this paper first establishes a road network model to describe the dynamic changes in access performance and road damage. It provides the shortest time-consuming route suggestions for the traffic access of mobile class resources in the post-disaster recovery task of power distribution networks. Then, the model proposes a joint repair model with general repair crew (GRC) and senior repair crew (SRC) collaboration. Different types of faults match different functions of repair crews (RCs). Finally, the proposed scheme is simulated and analyzed in a road network and power grid extreme post-disaster recovery model, including a mobile energy storage system (MESS) and distributed power sources. The simulation finds that considering road damage and severe failures produces a significant difference in the progress and load loss of the recovery task. The model proposed in this paper is more suitable for the actual scenario requirements, and the simulation results and loss assessment obtained are more accurate and informative.