Risk Assessment Method for Steam Turbines Based on the Reliability Analysis of Field Data.

Accession number;03A0073380
Title;Risk Assessment Method for Steam Turbines Based on the Reliability Analysis of Field Data.
Author; FUJIYAMA KAZUNARI (Toshiba Corp., Power Ind. Systems R&D Center, JPN) FUJIWARA TOSHIHIRO (Toshiba Corp.) KODAMA HIROTSUGU (Toshiba Corp.) SAITO KAZUHIRO (Toshiba Corp., Power Ind. Systems R&D Center, JPN) KICHISE HITOSHI (Toshiba Corp.) OKAZAKI MITSUYOSHI (Toshiba Corp.)
Journal Title;Journal of the Society of Materials Science, Japan
Journal Code:F0385A
ISSN:0514-5163
VOL.52;NO.1;PAGE.28-33(2003)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.15, REF.6
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;By arranging the field maintenance database of steam turbines with operation history and by conducting probabilistic safety analyses, a quantitative risk assessment method was established. The method includes three steps: (1)event tree analyses of parts failures which require any maintenance action, (2)assignment of unreliability functions of operation time or start cycles for each item in those event trees, and(3)calculation of total risk function by summing up recovery costs multiplied by the unreliability functions obeying the event trees and comparison of the risk cost with preventive maintenance cost. Those three steps were applied to actual turbine components and the effectiveness of proposed method was demonstrated with a risk simulation analysis. (author abst.)