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Reliability Modelling of a Diesel Engine System Using Fault Tree Analysis Approach

The objective of this research was to compute reliability of three diesel engine generator systems at a power plant using Fault Tree Analysis approach. The diesel engine systems had been operated since installed in January 1995 with initial capacity of 8.16 MW. However, their load capacity at the...

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Main Author: Farhanah Binti Ismail, Farhanah
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2010
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TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
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spelling my-utp-utpedia.14362017-01-25T09:43:14Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/1436/ Reliability Modelling of a Diesel Engine System Using Fault Tree Analysis Approach Farhanah Binti Ismail, Farhanah TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery The objective of this research was to compute reliability of three diesel engine generator systems at a power plant using Fault Tree Analysis approach. The diesel engine systems had been operated since installed in January 1995 with initial capacity of 8.16 MW. However, their load capacity at the end of December 2009 was 6.0 MW for diesel engine generator sets 1 and 2, while 5.0 MW for set 3. This means that their reliability performance had decreased. The Fault Tree Analysis was used to investigate the causes of decreasing reliability. Fault Tree Analysis was not a common tool for evaluating reliability. To enable the use of Fault Tree Analysis for reliability analysis, the fault tree was converted into Reliability Block Diagram. A power plant was said to be reliability when it has 99.99% performance reliability. The three diesel engine generator systems were evaluated using reliability analysis and compared to the 99.99% of performance. Results of the reliability analysis indicate that two out of three diesel engine generators not meeting the reliability standard. The root cause of this problem was due to sub systems of the diesel engines had high frequency of failure occurrence which led to low reliability Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2010 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/1436/1/farhanah_ismail.pdf Farhanah Binti Ismail, Farhanah (2010) Reliability Modelling of a Diesel Engine System Using Fault Tree Analysis Approach. Universiti Teknologi Petronas. (Unpublished)
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Farhanah Binti Ismail, Farhanah
Reliability Modelling of a Diesel Engine System Using Fault Tree Analysis Approach
description The objective of this research was to compute reliability of three diesel engine generator systems at a power plant using Fault Tree Analysis approach. The diesel engine systems had been operated since installed in January 1995 with initial capacity of 8.16 MW. However, their load capacity at the end of December 2009 was 6.0 MW for diesel engine generator sets 1 and 2, while 5.0 MW for set 3. This means that their reliability performance had decreased. The Fault Tree Analysis was used to investigate the causes of decreasing reliability. Fault Tree Analysis was not a common tool for evaluating reliability. To enable the use of Fault Tree Analysis for reliability analysis, the fault tree was converted into Reliability Block Diagram. A power plant was said to be reliability when it has 99.99% performance reliability. The three diesel engine generator systems were evaluated using reliability analysis and compared to the 99.99% of performance. Results of the reliability analysis indicate that two out of three diesel engine generators not meeting the reliability standard. The root cause of this problem was due to sub systems of the diesel engines had high frequency of failure occurrence which led to low reliability
format Final Year Project
author Farhanah Binti Ismail, Farhanah
author_facet Farhanah Binti Ismail, Farhanah
author_sort Farhanah Binti Ismail, Farhanah
title Reliability Modelling of a Diesel Engine System Using Fault Tree Analysis Approach
title_short Reliability Modelling of a Diesel Engine System Using Fault Tree Analysis Approach
title_full Reliability Modelling of a Diesel Engine System Using Fault Tree Analysis Approach
title_fullStr Reliability Modelling of a Diesel Engine System Using Fault Tree Analysis Approach
title_full_unstemmed Reliability Modelling of a Diesel Engine System Using Fault Tree Analysis Approach
title_sort reliability modelling of a diesel engine system using fault tree analysis approach
publisher Universiti Teknologi Petronas
publishDate 2010
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/1436/1/farhanah_ismail.pdf
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