Open AccessReliability and Sensitivity assessment of a Thermal power plant using Boolean function technique
Author(s) -
Pooja Dhiman,
Amit Kumar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1531/1/012075
Subject(s) - mean time between failures , redundancy (engineering) , reliability engineering , thermal power station , reliability (semiconductor) , computer science , steam turbine , sensitivity (control systems) , power station , boiler (water heating) , failure rate , engineering , power (physics) , electronic engineering , electrical engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , waste management
The aim of aforementioned paper is to investigate the terminal reliability, mean time to failure and sensitivity analysis for a thermal power plant based on minimizing Boolean expression approach. A thermal power plant be expressed by four major subsystems namely conveyer, boiler, turbine and generator arranged in mixed configuration. Conveyer and boiler both individually have two units in parallel redundancy. Throughout the task thermal power plant may work in basically three different states namely good, degraded and failed state. The various results regarding reliability, mean time to failure (MTTF) and sensitivity analysis are authenticated with the help of graphs.