Maintenance Management in Power Systems, F2C5060 (5 credits)

KTH School of Electrical Engineering and Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Power systems and high voltage engineering, offer a jointly organized post-graduate course on Maintenance management in power systems. The course is given every second year alternating between Finland and Sweden. The first course was held in 2005. Documentation from this course can be found in the report data base at http://www.ee.kth.se.

Course subjects

The overall topic of maintenance management has been divided into four themes:

1. Reliability data assessment and reliability modelling.
2. Reliability centred maintenance.
3. Condition monitoring and diagnostics methods.
4. Maintenance scheduling and optimization.

Course description

The course begins with a full day of lectures covering basic theory for the course content. Individual projects are defined for each participants, within one of the themes for the course. The participants will work on these projects with supervision from the course responsible. A final project report (10-15 pages) shall be written and presented oral at the concluding course seminar. Each participant shall also review and comment on one other project report. A final course material will be presented after the course with all course reports and introductory lectures. More details with instructions for the project report and oral presentations will be handed out at the course start.

Course examination

The examination for the course includes the following tasks:

1. An individual project that shall be presented in a written report, and orally at the course seminar. (Writing instructions are given in appendix B)
2. Participation at the introductory lecture day and the three day course seminar, and acting as an opponent on one other project report, presenting both written and oral comments.
3. A written examination that will be based on all course material, and includes the four different themes for the course content.

Approved task 1 and 2 will be rewarded in total 4 credits, and approved task 3 will be rewarded 1 credit.

Course material

Lecture handouts, summary reports, conference and journal papers. A list of recommended literature that is related to the individual tasks will be handed out on the first day of the course.

A PDF-file with all the course material from 2005 may be downloaded here. NOTE! This file is large (~10MB) and may take a long time to download with some connections.

Course schedule

• Registration: by January 30, 2007 to matti.lehtonen@hut.fi or lina.bertling@ee.kth.se. The number of participants is limited to 45.
• Course start with introductory lectures and handing out material; February 5 at KTH (Seminarierummet, Teknikringen 33) and February 6 at TKK (Room L311). Full day 10-16.
• Submission of draft version of project reports by May 19.
• Submission of project reports and presentation slides by June 4.
• Course seminar; June 11 to 13, 2007. From 10-16 at KTH, Electrical Engineering, Seminarierummet.
• Examination; August 22, 12-15 at KTH and 13-16 at TKK (Room L311).

Accomodation

Rooms have been reserved at Hotel Arcadia, Körsbärsvägen 1. The hotel is located about 5 minutes walking distance from KTH Campus. For reservation contact; reservation.arcadia@elite.se.

Course fee

There is no fee for registered PhD students, other participants are welcome to fee of 500 euros.

Course lecturers and examiners

Professor Matti Lehtonen, TKK and Assistant Professor Lina Bertling, KTH.

Course responsible at KTH and contact information

Assistant Professor Lina Bertling
KTH School of Electrical Engineering
Teknikringen 33
100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
Email: lina.bertling@ee.kth.se
Phone +46 8-790 6508.