Tag Archives: Equipment Reliability
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A Brief History of Equipment Reliability Improvement Efforts in the U.S. Nuclear Electric Generating Industry
This report tracks the progression of equipment reliability activities in the U.S. nuclear industry from 1980 to 2016, drawing on interviews with nuclear equipment reliability experts.
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Continuous Online Monitoring Guidebook: Volumes 1–8
This 8-volume guidebook equips nuclear plant operators to plan and implement continuous online monitoring, including new sensors, communication systems, and analytical tools.
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Operating for Reliability at Coal-Fired Supercritical Units
This report provides operational parameters that can increase fossil power plant reliability along with metrics to track the parameters.
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Gas Turbine Lube-Oil System Maintenance Basis Case Study
Failures with gas turbine lube-oil systems have been a focus area for the power industry as a result of events resulting in lost generation and steep repair costs. This report assists owners of combustion turbine combined-cycle facilities in implementing a maintenance program to improve lube-oil system reliability and plant availability.
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Conduct of Maintenance Guideline: An Overview of Key Maintenance Principles
Drawing on a review of successful power plant maintenance organizations, this report outlines good maintenance principles, covering topics such as equipment reliability, work management processes, outage management, lockout/tagout, communications, and human performance.
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Continuous On-Line Monitoring (COLM): Vertical Pump, Vertical–Deep Draft–Radial Flow–Product Lube
This is one or four new “Quick Guides” that EPRI has developed to help nuclear plant owners quickly assess what monitoring instruments and methods could be applied to a particular piece of equipment to address potential degradation mechanisms. It also helps prioritize selection.
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Developing a Technical Basis for Using On-Line Equipment Condition Monitoring to Reduce Time-Based Preventive and Predictive Maintenance: Update to 3002010579
This research identifies plant equipment to monitor based on historical preventive maintenance costs and describes methods for applying continuous on-line monitoring to reduce or eliminate maintenance tasks.
