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Facility Analysis is used to study the topological redundancy of interconnect-specific electric facilities. This application determines the minimum set of AC transmission lines and transformers that, when opened or removed from the system, would electrically isolate a set of Facility buses from a set of External buses.
The tool is an application of the augmenting path max flow min cut algorithm with modifications to handle electric networks.
The Facility analysis process has two steps:
- The Select the Buses dialog is used to specify the External and Facility buses. Multiple selections of the External buses can be done using any of the area or zone selectors. The Facility buses are specified by setting the Selected field of buses to YES.
- The Facility Analysis dialog is used to determine the Min Cut and visualize the branches that belong to the min cut.
The Facility analysis application runs in Edit Mode and takes into consideration the open or closed status of the branches. Open lines are considered as not present in the system. The figure below illustrates the functionality of the Facility Analysis tool.
