Reliability, Availability and Maintanability Study of A Power Generation Plant
Keywords:
Power plant, RAM study, Monte-Carlo simulation, availability, maintenance planningAbstract
Power generation plants need to produce electricity on a continuous rate to cater for the
electricity demand of the public. The performance of the power generation plant could be
evaluated in terms of its availability. By performing reliability, availability and
maintainability (RAM) study, the performance of the power generation plant could be
investigated. By using the failure and repair data of the power plant, Monte-Carlo
simulation was conducted to predict the performance of the power plant system for the next
25 years. From the simulation, the system uptime and downtime duration, system
availability, failed components list, spare parts list, and labor costing were obtained.
Maintenance planning can be planned by using the results obtained from the simulation.
The system was observed to have an average availability of 93% for the next 25 years based
on the simulation.
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