• DocumentCode
    1161808
  • Title

    Root Cause Analysis of Fossil Power Plant Equipment Failures: The EPRI Program

  • Author

    Armor, A.F. ; Parkes, J.B. ; Leaver, D.E.

  • Author_Institution
    Electric Power Research Institute
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1981
  • fDate
    6/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2752
  • Lastpage
    2758
  • Abstract
    A program to identify the root causes of observed failures in power plant components is described. A study of generic failures is applied to boilers, pulverizers, pumps, bearings, fans, turbine-Generators and other significant contributors to plant outages. A plant-specific program is described which formalizes an approach to be used by an individual utility.
  • Keywords
    Boilers; Economic indicators; Equipment failure; Failure analysis; Fans; Flue gases; Power & Energy Society; Power demand; Power generation; US Department of Energy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Power Apparatus and Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9510
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPAS.1981.316388
  • Filename
    4110935