Vol. 2 No. 1
Year: 2013
Issue:
Jan-Mar
Title : Probabilistic Analysis of an Evaporator of a Desalination
Plant with Inspection
Author Name : S.M. RIZWAN,
N. PADMAVATHI , G. Taneja
Synopsis :
The paper presents a probabilistic
analysis of an evaporator of a desalination plant. Multi stage flash
desalination process is being used for water purification. The desalination
plant operates round the clock and many evaporators are in operation for water
production. Any major failure/annual maintenance brings the evaporator to a
complete halt and stops the production from that evaporator. The evaporator
fails due to any one of the six types of failure. An inspection is carried out
to detect the type of failure. For the present analysis, seven years
maintenance data of a desalination plant has been extracted from the operations
and maintenance record of the plant in Oman. An extensive probabilistic
analysis of the plant is carried out and the measures of evaporator
effectiveness such as mean time to evaporator failure, availability, the
expected number of major, minor repairs, replacements, services, and the
overall profitability incurred to the evaporator are estimated numerically. The
semi-Markov processes and regenerative point techniques are used in the
analysis.