Tag Archives: Maintenance
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Are EVs High Maintenance?
An EPRI analysis dispels the notion that EVs are expensive to maintain. By Chris Warren At the end of 2023 and the start of 2024, confusion was the best word to describe the public perception of electric vehicles (EVs). On the one hand, there is ample data demonstrating the rapid growth of EVs in the […]
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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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Nuclear Maintenance Applications Center: Controllable Reactor Coolant Pump Seal Prototype
Multistage seals in nuclear reactor coolant pumps occasionally exhibit excessive or insufficient leakage. This study investigates the feasibility of a controllable seal to mitigate such problems.
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Air Pre-Heater Mobile Inspection: Mobile Field Guide (iOS and Android Mobile Application)
This mobile app helps fossil plant personnel to inspect for degradation in vertical-shaft, rotating-plate, regenerative air preheaters. It draws on operating experience of utilities and the EPRI Preventive Maintenance Basis Database.
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Field Guide: Inspection, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting of Sacrificial Anode Cathodic Protection Systems for Transmission Line Structures
Cathodic protection systems can help prevent corrosion of metal components by electrically linking them to a “sacrificial anode metal” that more easily corrodes. This field guide on inspection and maintenance of transmission line cathodic protection systems covers basic inspection procedures and pass-fail criteria, installation and sizing of sacrificial anode systems, general troubleshooting, and maintenance of […]
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Establishing an Effective Plant Fluid Leak Management and Prevention Program
This report provides guidance on developing and implementing fluid leakage management programs in nuclear plants. It emphasizes leak prevention and repairs and incorporates lessons learned since EPRI’s previous guidance in 2009.
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Good Practices for Emergency Diesel Generator System Engineers
This report identifies good practices for engineers responsible for emergency diesel generator systems in nuclear plants, drawing on experience and expertise from diesel system engineers and other plant personnel. It can be used for training and guidance for new and experienced engineers.
