<p>Is North America vulnerable to widespread electrical
blackout from natural or man-made disasters? Yes. Are electric utilities and
critical infrastructure (CI) operators prepared to maintain CI operations such
as, hospitals, sewage lift stations, food, water, police stations etc., after
electrical blackout to maintain National security and sustainability? No. Why? Requirements
to prioritize electrical restoration to CI do not exist as a requirement or
regulation for electrical distribution operators. Thus, the CI operators cannot
maintain services to the public without electricity that provides power for the
critical services to function. The problem is that electric utilities are not
required to develop or deploy a prioritized systematic plan or procedure to
decrease the duration of electrical outage, commonly referred to as blackout. The
consequence of local blackout to CI can be multi-billion-dollar financial
losses and loss of life for a single outage event attributed to the duration of
blackout. This study utilized the review of authoritative literature to answer
the question: “Can a plan be developed to decrease the duration of electrical
outage to critical infrastructure”. The literature revealed that electric
utilities are not required to prioritize electrical restoration efforts and do
not have plans available to deploy minimizing the duration of blackout to CI.
Thus, this study developed a plan and subsequent model using Model Based System
Engineering (MBSE) to decrease the duration of blackout by providing incremental
electrical service to CI.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/9077159 |
| Date | 15 August 2019 |
| Creators | Casey Allen Shull (7039955) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/ALGORITHM_TO_DEVELOP_A_MODEL_PROVIDING_SECURITY_AND_SUSTAINABILITY_FOR_THE_U_S_INFRASTRUCTURE_BY_PROVIDING_INCREMENTAL_ELECTRICAL_RESTORATION_AFTER_BLACKOUT/9077159 |
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