Just In-Time Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants
Abstract
The goal of this project has been to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a new technology for maintenance engineering: a Just-In-Time Maintenance (JITM) system for rotating machines. The JITM system is based on several key developments at Texas A and M over the past ten years in emerging intelligent information technologies, which if integrated into a single system could provide a revolutionary approach in the way maintenance is performed. Rotating machines, such as induction motors, range from a few horse power (hp) to several thousand hp in size, and they are widely used in nuclear power plants and in other industries. Forced outages caused by induction motor failures are the reason for as much as 15% - 40% of production costs to be attributable to maintenance, whereas plant shutdowns caused by induction motor failures result in daily financial losses to the utility and process industries of $1 M or more. The basic components of the JITM system are the available machine sensors, that is electric current sensors and accelerometers, and the computational algorithms used in the analysis and interpretation of the occurring incipient failures. The JITM system can reduce the costs attributable to maintenance by about 40% and itmore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Texas Engineering Experiment Station (US)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- (US)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 791403
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-ID/13641
TRN: US0200638
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG07-98ID13641
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 22 Jan 2002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; ACCELEROMETERS; MAINTENANCE; ELECTRIC MOTORS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; TURBOMACHINERY; ON-LINE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE ENGINEERING; ROTATING MACHINES; REVOLUTIONARY; INDUCTION MOTORS; SENSORS; JITM; ALGORITHMS; SENSOR
Citation Formats
Parlos, Alexander G. Just In-Time Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants. United States: N. p., 2002.
Web. doi:10.2172/791403.
Parlos, Alexander G. Just In-Time Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/791403
Parlos, Alexander G. 2002.
"Just In-Time Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/791403. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/791403.
@article{osti_791403,
title = {Just In-Time Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants},
author = {Parlos, Alexander G},
abstractNote = {The goal of this project has been to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a new technology for maintenance engineering: a Just-In-Time Maintenance (JITM) system for rotating machines. The JITM system is based on several key developments at Texas A and M over the past ten years in emerging intelligent information technologies, which if integrated into a single system could provide a revolutionary approach in the way maintenance is performed. Rotating machines, such as induction motors, range from a few horse power (hp) to several thousand hp in size, and they are widely used in nuclear power plants and in other industries. Forced outages caused by induction motor failures are the reason for as much as 15% - 40% of production costs to be attributable to maintenance, whereas plant shutdowns caused by induction motor failures result in daily financial losses to the utility and process industries of $1 M or more. The basic components of the JITM system are the available machine sensors, that is electric current sensors and accelerometers, and the computational algorithms used in the analysis and interpretation of the occurring incipient failures. The JITM system can reduce the costs attributable to maintenance by about 40% and it can lower the maintenance budgets of power and process plants by about 35%, while requiring no additional sensor installation. As a result, the JITM system can improve the competitiveness of US nuclear utilities at minimal additional cost.},
doi = {10.2172/791403},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/791403},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2002},
month = {Tue Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2002}
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