Infrastructure Asset Management with Power System Applications

"As equipment in power systems is aging, life cycle asset management has become increasingly important. The traditional asset management methods used in power systems cannot solve many practical issues or may lead to a costly maintenance process. This book introduced new ideas in this area. It is a very timely book. I believe that many readers in academia and industry will greatly benefit from the book.
The book has a wide coverage in both basic theories and actual applications for power system asset management, which represents the unique characteristic of the book in asset management. The chapters are well organized. The author is an excellent expert in this field. She has fruitful knowledge and experiences in researches at both universities and electric power companies. The book is an outstanding reference book not only for professors, engineers and researchers, but also for postgraduates."
— Wenyuan Li, Chongqing University, China

"Lina Bertling Tjernberg is a well known professor and expert in the field of electric power system reliability and maintenance management. In this book, she takes the reader to an introductory journey into the world of infrastructure asset management (AM) including both an overall description of the topic and showing specific mathematical assessment tools. The focus of the book is the reliability centered asset management method (RCAM) which results in strategies for performing AM taking into account the whole life cycle of physical assets from design, construction, commission, operation, maintenance, modification, decommissioning, and disposal. The main contribution of the book is an extensive set of case studies for electric power systems including details of the reliability modelling and real-life input data taken from the utility experience. The case studies cover a wide range of power system applications including different high voltage equipment, electrical transmission and distribution systems, hydro and nuclear power plants and wind power turbines. These case studies present in detail several different optimization models, and novel techniques for reliability modelling using advance mathematical tools like, for example, Bayesian statistics and neural networks. I believe that this book would be a valuable reading for professionals or students interested in different areas of infrastructure asset management with a focus in applications for the electric power system. The author writes that a vision with the book is to encourage the collaboration and exchange of knowledge between different actors such as industry, academia, regulators, and decision makers. I believe that the author has gone a long way to fulfill her vision, and I strongly recommend the book for any professional library."
— George Anders, Technical University of Lodz, Poland

"This is a valuable book dealing with the important topic of infrastructure management; it combines a general introduction applicable to all forms of infrastructure, before focusing on the electrical power system sector. It is a book that anyone working in power systems including electrical distribution systems, wind power systems, and hydropower systems will find insightful. Additionally, optimization of maintenance decisions for components such as breakers, transformers and gearboxes are included in several of the case studies.
Professor Bertling Tjernberg is a renowned academic in the general area of reliability engineering and who has had the benefit of leading research and development with the Swedish National Grid along with leading numerous industry/university collaborations from her University bases of KTH and Chalmers in Sweden.
The strength of the book is in the case studies and are a result of Professor Bertling Tjernberg’s research supervision of students and post –doctoral research Fellows in collaboration with industries such as Vattenfall and ABB.
A novel feature of the book is the introduction of Reliability Centered Asset Maintenance (RCAM) where "classical" RCM is first introduced then Professor Bertling Tjernberg progresses to introduce RCAM that extends RCM to incorporate the optimization of various maintenance tactics. Four Chapters are devoted to case studies illustrate the application of RCAM for wind power systems, component modeling, maintenance optimization and hydropower systems.
I have listened to Professor Bertling Tjernberg speak at international conferences where it is clear that she has a deep and insightful understanding of tools to ensure excellence in infrastructure asset management, particularly for electric power system."
—Andrew K S Jardine, University of Toronto, Canada

"As equipment in power systems is aging, life cycle asset management has become increasingly important. The traditional asset management methods used in power systems cannot solve many practical issues or may lead to a costly maintenance process. This book introduced new ideas in this area. It is a very timely book. I believe that many readers in academia and industry will greatly benefit from the book.
The book has a wide coverage in both basic theories and actual applications for power system asset management, which represents the unique characteristic of the book in asset management. The chapters are well organized. The author is an excellent expert in this field. She has fruitful knowledge and experiences in researches at both universities and electric power companies. The book is an outstanding reference book not only for professors, engineers and researchers, but also for postgraduates."
— Wenyuan Li, Chongqing University, China

"Lina Bertling Tjernberg is a well known professor and expert in the field of electric power system reliability and maintenance management. In this book, she takes the reader to an introductory journey into the world of infrastructure asset management (AM) including both an overall description of the topic and showing specific mathematical assessment tools. The focus of the book is the reliability centered asset management method (RCAM) which results in strategies for performing AM taking into account the whole life cycle of physical assets from design, construction, commission, operation, maintenance, modification, decommissioning, and disposal. The main contribution of the book is an extensive set of case studies for electric power systems including details of the reliability modelling and real-life input data taken from the utility experience. The case studies cover a wide range of power system applications including different high voltage equipment, electrical transmission and distribution systems, hydro and nuclear power plants and wind power turbines. These case studies present in detail several different optimization models, and novel techniques for reliability modelling using advance mathematical tools like, for example, Bayesian statistics and neural networks. I believe that this book would be a valuable reading for professionals or students interested in different areas of infrastructure asset management with a focus in applications for the electric power system. The author writes that a vision with the book is to encourage the collaboration and exchange of knowledge between different actors such as industry, academia, regulators, and decision makers. I believe that the author has gone a long way to fulfill her vision, and I strongly recommend the book for any professional library."
— George Anders, Technical University of Lodz, Poland

"This is a valuable book dealing with the important topic of infrastructure management; it combines a general introduction applicable to all forms of infrastructure, before focusing on the electrical power system sector. It is a book that anyone working in power systems including electrical distribution systems, wind power systems, and hydropower systems will find insightful. Additionally, optimization of maintenance decisions for components such as breakers, transformers and gearboxes are included in several of the case studies.
Professor Bertling Tjernberg is a renowned academic in the general area of reliability engineering and who has had the benefit of leading research and development with the Swedish National Grid along with leading numerous industry/university collaborations from her University bases of KTH and Chalmers in Sweden.
The strength of the book is in the case studies and are a result of Professor Bertling Tjernberg’s research supervision of students and post –doctoral research Fellows in collaboration with industries such as Vattenfall and ABB.
A novel feature of the book is the introduction of Reliability Centered Asset Maintenance (RCAM) where "classical" RCM is first introduced then Professor Bertling Tjernberg progresses to introduce RCAM that extends RCM to incorporate the optimization of various maintenance tactics. Four Chapters are devoted to case studies illustrate the application of RCAM for wind power systems, component modeling, maintenance optimization and hydropower systems.
I have listened to Professor Bertling Tjernberg speak at international conferences where it is clear that she has a deep and insightful understanding of tools to ensure excellence in infrastructure asset management, particularly for electric power system."
—Andrew K S Jardine, University of Toronto, Canada