TY  - BOOK
AU  - de Souza,Gilberto Francisco Martha
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis
T2  - Springer Series in Reliability Engineering,
SN  - 9781447123095
AV  - TK1001-1841 
U1  - 621.042 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Springer London
KW  - Engineering
KW  - System safety
KW  - Electric engineering
KW  - Business planning
KW  - Energy Technology
KW  - Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk
KW  - Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer
KW  - Organization/Planning
KW  - Facility Management
KW  - Energy Systems
N1  - 1. Introduction -- 2. Fundamentals of Thermodynamics Applied to Thermal Power Plants -- 3. Analysis of Thermal Plants Configuration -- 4. Fuels: Analysis of Plant Performance and Environmental Impact -- 5. Fundamentals of Reliability -- 6. Fundamentals of Maintenance -- 7. Fundamentals of Risk Analysis -- 8. Reliability Analysis of Gas Turbine -- 9. Combined-Cycle Gas & Steam Turbine Power Plant Reliability Analysis -- 10. Risk-based Inspection and Maintenance (RBIM) of Power Plants
N2  - The analysis of the reliability and availability of power plants is frequently based on simple indexes that do not take into account the criticality of some failures used for availability analysis. This criticality should be evaluated based on concepts of reliability which consider the effect of a component failure on the performance of the entire plant. System reliability analysis tools provide a root-cause analysis leading to the improvement of the plant maintenance plan.   Taking in view that the power plant performance can be evaluated not only based on  thermodynamic related indexes, such as heat-rate, Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis focuses on the presentation of reliability-based tools used to define performance of complex systems and introduces the basic concepts of reliability, maintainability and risk analysis aiming at their application as tools for power plant performance improvement, including: ·         selection of critical equipment and components, ·         definition of maintenance plans, mainly for auxiliary systems, and ·         execution of decision analysis based on risk concepts. The comprehensive presentation of each analysis allows future application of the methodology making Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis a key resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in mechanical and nuclear engineering
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2309-5
ER  -