Fundamentals of Maintenance

Gilberto Francisco Martha Souza () and Fernando Jesus Guevara Carazas
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Gilberto Francisco Martha Souza: University of São Paulo
Fernando Jesus Guevara Carazas: University of São Paulo

A chapter in Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis, 2012, pp 123-146 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The pieces of equipment installed in a thermal power plant must be subject to very stringent maintenance policies aiming at maintaining their operational availability. Those policies must be centered on controlling the aging degradation that affects mechanical equipment reliability. Furthermore the maintenance policy must account for economical and safety aspects associated with the failure of some critical equipment that constitutes the power plant. The use of Reliability-Centered Maintenance concepts is discussed as a suitable method to define equilibrium between the failure effects associated with the occurrence of critical equipment failure and the costs associated with maintenance policies applied to avoid the occurrence of those failures.

Keywords: Failure Mode; Thermal Power Plant; Preventive Maintenance; Maintenance Task; Maintenance Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-2309-5_6

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