Title : 
Approach to solving the task of availability prediction and cost optimization of a steam turbine
         
        
            Author : 
Houdova, L. ; Houdova, L. ; Jelinek, Lukas ; Janecek, E.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Cybern., Univ. of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper deals with approaches to solving the task of availability prediction and maintenance cost optimization of steam turbines in the Czech coal-fired power plants. There are presented commonly used methods for input data processing and for the availability modeling with using a data of breakdowns and repairs. Mentioned methodologies are compared considering the utilization for decision support in maintenance of steam turbines.
         
        
            Keywords : 
costing; maintenance engineering; power generation economics; steam power stations; steam turbines; Czech coal-fired power plants; availability prediction; data processing; decision support; maintenance cost optimization; steam turbine; availability prediction; cost optimization; data preprocessing; reliability analysis;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Technology Interfaces (ITI), 2010 32nd International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Cavtat/Dubrovnik
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-5732-8