Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis

✍ Scribed by Gilberto Francisco Martha de Souza (auth.), Gilberto Francisco Martha de Souza (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 296
• Series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The analysis of the reliability and availability of power plants is frequently based on simple indexes that do not take into account the criticality of some failures used for availability analysis. This criticality should be evaluated based on concepts of reliability which consider the effect of a component failure on the performance of the entire plant. System reliability analysis tools provide a root-cause analysis leading to the improvement of the plant maintenance plan.

Taking in view that the power plant performance can be evaluated not only based on thermodynamic related indexes, such as heat-rate, Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis focuses on the presentation of reliability-based tools used to define performance of complex systems and introduces the basic concepts of reliability, maintainability and risk analysis aiming at their application as tools for power plant performance improvement, including:

· selection of critical equipment and components,

· definition of maintenance plans, mainly for auxiliary systems, and

· execution of decision analysis based on risk concepts.

The comprehensive presentation of each analysis allows future application of the methodology making Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis a key resource forundergraduate and postgraduate students in mechanical and nuclear engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Fundamentals of Thermodynamics Applied to Thermal Power Plants....Pages 7-39
Analysis of Thermal Plants Configuration....Pages 41-59
Fuels: Analysis of Plant Performance and Environmental Impact....Pages 61-90
Fundamentals of Reliability....Pages 91-122
Fundamentals of Maintenance....Pages 123-146
Fundamentals of Risk Analysis....Pages 147-187
Reliability Analysis of Gas Turbine....Pages 189-220
Combined-Cycle Gas and Steam Turbine Power Plant Reliability Analysis....Pages 221-247
Risk-Based Inspection and Maintenance (RBIM) of Power Plants....Pages 249-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-287

✦ Subjects

Energy Technology; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer; Organization/Planning; Facility Management; Energy Systems