Reliability and availability assessments of selected domestic combined-cycle power-generating plants. Final report

Technical Report · Sun Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6873114

Brown, H W; Gardner, N J

This report presents the results of reliability and availability assessments performed with the cooperation of seven utilities operating combined-cycle power plants in service since 1974 to evaluate: combined-cycle unit equivalent availability and equivalent forced outage rates; system and component mean time between failures (MTBF) and mean downtime (MDT); and gas turbine reliability correlations with service hours, starting frequency, fuel type, and service factor. A data base was developed for 45 plant components or systems for the period 1978 through 1980; this led to recommendations for improving outage data collection for the purpose of reliability analysis. In addition reliability, availability, and maintainability prediction models for several commercial combined-cycle plant designs were developed and validated.

• Research Organization: Arinc Research Corp., Annapolis, MD (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6873114
• Report Number(s): EPRI-AP-2536; ON: DE82905494
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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COMBINED-CYCLE POWER PLANTS
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EXPERIMENTAL DATA
GAS TURBINES
INFORMATION
MACHINERY
NUMERICAL DATA
OUTAGES
POWER PLANTS
RELIABILITY
STEAM TURBINES
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