Title :
A successful preventive maintenance program for an electric power plant
Author :
Onodera, Katsushige ; Katoo, Yoomei
Author_Institution :
Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi, Japan
Abstract :
A comprehensive program with the aim of prevention of plant forced outage is presented. Unplanned shutdowns occur in the event of failure of critical equipment and systems during plant operation, including both primary and auxiliary equipment. A diagnostic system, failure detection methods, and life estimation systems for critical equipment have been developed. Good results have been obtained; forced outage rates have been reduced by the application of this program to thermal and nuclear power plants
Keywords :
maintenance engineering; power plants; power system reliability; auxiliary equipment; diagnostic system; electric power plant; failure detection methods; failure of critical equipment; forced outage rates; life estimation systems; nuclear power plants; plant forced outage; preventive maintenance program; primary equipment; thermal power plants; Diagnostic expert systems; Inspection; Nuclear power generation; Power generation; Power system planning; Power system reliability; Preventive maintenance; Thermal force; Thermal stresses; Turbines;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 1993. Proceedings., Annual
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0943-X
DOI :
10.1109/RAMS.1993.296863
