The essence of RCM for application to fossil power plants

Technical Report · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1996

OSTI ID:401950

Cratic, J III ^[1]; Dozier, J ^[2]

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1. PECO Energy, Wayne, PA (United States)
2. NUS, Gaithersburg, MD (United States)

This paper presents some of the most cost effective techniques identified during the EPRI and PECO sponsored {open_quotes}Streamlined Reliability Centered Maintenance Project{close_quotes} at PECO nuclear stations. These techniques have significant cost savings potential for other business areas of PECO such as fossil and transmission and distribution. The complete RCM processes used during the streamlined RCM project are presented in EPRI and other publications. This paper focuses on some of the most important techniques within the streamlined RCM processes. These techniques are the Outage Maintenance Assessment, which is a technique to reduce the outage PM task burden. Another technique is the Failure Maintenance Assessment which is similar to the maintenance history review in classical RCM. The last technique is the maintenance template which is a pre-engineered task selection process which determines the appropriate maintenance for a component type based on application and condition of the component. These three techniques are not a substitute for a comprehensive RCM review but capture the most beneficial parts of the analysis or ... the essence of RCM.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., MD (United States)
• OSTI ID: 401950
• Report Number(s): EPRI-TR--106753; CONF-960719--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
FAILURES
FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS
MAINTENANCE
OPTIMIZATION
OUTAGES
RELIABILITY