Reliability studies on co generation power plant

Abstract

The Cogeneration Power Plant or Combined HeatandPower newlineSystems CHP are systems that simultaneously generate both electricity and newlineuseful heat besides reduction in the Green house Gas GHG emission It is newlineimportant to analyze the reliability of these systems in order to ensure lowest newlinelevel of cost of system life cycle CHP system installed in a sugar and textile newlinemill are considered as case studies in order to assess its reliability through newlineFault Tree Analysis FTA Weibulll Distribution Techniques Integrating of newlineEnhanced Ladder Control Logic and basic availability analysis using Taguchi newlineMethod newlineIn the FTA common cause failures are evaluated using the newlinefactor model with the available data on the failure and restoration of the newlineplant On a detailed analysis it is found that the unavailability of the CHP newlinesystem in the sugar mill is 250E3 and in the textile mill is 850E03 It is newlinenoted that the CHP system unavailability is due to failures related to newlinemechanical system subsystems of condenser boiler and turbine newline newline