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Fundamentals of Maintenance

In: Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis

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  • Gilberto Francisco Martha Souza

    (University of São Paulo)

  • Fernando Jesus Guevara Carazas

    (University of São Paulo)

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.

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  • Gilberto Francisco Martha Souza & Fernando Jesus Guevara Carazas, 2012. "Fundamentals of Maintenance," Springer Series in Reliability Engineering, in: Gilberto Francisco Martha de Souza (ed.), Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis, edition 127, pages 123-146, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ssrchp:978-1-4471-2309-5_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-2309-5_6
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