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Intelligent maintenance prioritization and optimization strategies for thermal power plant boilers

Steam boiler also known as steam generator is an integral component in thermal power plants requiring effective maintenance scheduling to extend the overall life cycle of the boiler. However, steam boilers are commonly plagued with issues such as boiler shutdown and tube leakage. Industry experts ad...

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Main Authors: Fuzi, N.F.A., Ismail, F.B.
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Published: 2020
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spelling my.uniten.dspace-128402020-07-07T04:41:11Z Intelligent maintenance prioritization and optimization strategies for thermal power plant boilers Fuzi, N.F.A. Ismail, F.B. Steam boiler also known as steam generator is an integral component in thermal power plants requiring effective maintenance scheduling to extend the overall life cycle of the boiler. However, steam boilers are commonly plagued with issues such as boiler shutdown and tube leakage. Industry experts adopted preventative maintenance to overcome the repetition of outage in steam boilers. This method is flawed in the aspect of redundant maintenance activities. The repetition in maintenance activities will lead to reduced work productivity and increased maintenance operational costs. In this study, a maintenance optimization system specialized in ranking, prioritization and optimization based on Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) are chosen. The AHP is used to rearrange the maintenance activities according to its priority while the PSO is an intelligent swarm used to optimize the operational duration and maintenance cost based on the result formed from AHP after implemented using MATLAB software. This work proposes maintenance scheduling based on minimization of the objectives focusing on the forming new list of the maintenance activities with the optimal operational duration and maintenance cost. © BEIESP. 2020-02-03T03:27:11Z 2020-02-03T03:27:11Z 2019 Article 10.35940/ijrte.C1007.1083S19 en
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description Steam boiler also known as steam generator is an integral component in thermal power plants requiring effective maintenance scheduling to extend the overall life cycle of the boiler. However, steam boilers are commonly plagued with issues such as boiler shutdown and tube leakage. Industry experts adopted preventative maintenance to overcome the repetition of outage in steam boilers. This method is flawed in the aspect of redundant maintenance activities. The repetition in maintenance activities will lead to reduced work productivity and increased maintenance operational costs. In this study, a maintenance optimization system specialized in ranking, prioritization and optimization based on Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) are chosen. The AHP is used to rearrange the maintenance activities according to its priority while the PSO is an intelligent swarm used to optimize the operational duration and maintenance cost based on the result formed from AHP after implemented using MATLAB software. This work proposes maintenance scheduling based on minimization of the objectives focusing on the forming new list of the maintenance activities with the optimal operational duration and maintenance cost. © BEIESP.
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author Fuzi, N.F.A.
Ismail, F.B.
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Intelligent maintenance prioritization and optimization strategies for thermal power plant boilers
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Ismail, F.B.
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title Intelligent maintenance prioritization and optimization strategies for thermal power plant boilers
title_short Intelligent maintenance prioritization and optimization strategies for thermal power plant boilers
title_full Intelligent maintenance prioritization and optimization strategies for thermal power plant boilers
title_fullStr Intelligent maintenance prioritization and optimization strategies for thermal power plant boilers
title_full_unstemmed Intelligent maintenance prioritization and optimization strategies for thermal power plant boilers
title_sort intelligent maintenance prioritization and optimization strategies for thermal power plant boilers
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