Availability of the crystallization system in the sugar industry under common-cause failure

Author

Kumar, Dinesh ; Singh, Jai ; Pandey, P.C.

Author_Institution

Regional Eng. Coll., Kurukshetra, India

Volume

41

Issue

1

fYear

1992

fDate

3/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

91

Abstract

Some results from an analytic study of reliability and availability of the crystallizer system in sugar plants are presented. The analytic model was developed in a study of an actual plant. The crystallizer system consists of five basic repairable subsystems in series. Each subsystem is considered as being: good, reduced, or failed. Some subsystems can fail together due to a common cause. The model is based on the Chapman-Kolmogorov equations. Steady-state availability and various state probabilities are derived using Laplace transforms. The usefulness of the study is demonstrated through illustrations

Keywords

food processing industry; reliability; Chapman-Kolmogorov equations; Laplace transforms; analytic model; availability; common-cause failure; crystallization system; reliability; repairable subsystems; state probability; sugar industry; Art; Availability; Crystallization; Educational institutions; Laplace equations; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Steady-state; Sugar industry; Sugar refining;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Reliability, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9529

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/24.126677

Filename

126677