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Markov-based performance evaluation and availability optimization of the boiler–furnace system in coal-fired thermal power plant using PSO

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The study revealed that the maximum system availability level of 99.9845% is obtained and assisted the decision-makers in planning the maintenance activity as per the criticality level of subsystems for allocating the resources.
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This article is published in Energy Reports.The article was published on 2020-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 18 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Failure rate & Criticality.

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Performance analysis and availability optimization to improve maintenance schedule for the turbo-generator subsystem of a thermal power plant using particle swarm optimization

TL;DR: Evaluating the performance of the turbo-generator subsystem of a thermal power plant by employing a particle swarm optimization method reveals that the turbine lubrication and generator excitation subsystems affect the system availability at most.
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A hybrid reliability-centered maintenance approach for mining transportation machines: a real case in Esfahan

TL;DR: There is no research which has used RCM for transportation systems in the mining sector, and therefore, the innovation of this research is employment of the proposed hybrid approach for transportation machineries in themining industry.
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Energy, exergy, economic analysis and optimization of single-effect absorption chiller network

TL;DR: In this article, a case study was conducted on the absorption chiller network in Iranian Marun Petrochemical Company, where the authors aimed to conduct energy, exergy and economic analysis on a network of single-effect absorption chillers.
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A reliability-based and sustainability-informed maintenance optimization considering risk attitudes for telecommunications equipment

TL;DR: This study presents a reliability-based and sustainability-informed maintenance optimization model for telecommunications equipment that considers several risk attributes associated with sustainability dimensions (i.e. social, economic and environmental aspects).
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Parameter identification of a highly promising cleaner coal power station

TL;DR: In this paper, the procedure of parameter identification and refinement of a real 600MW supercritical unit was investigated, and two advanced multi-objective optimization techniques have been investigated and compared, which are genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization.
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A model for preventive maintenance planning by genetic algorithms based in cost and reliability

TL;DR: A novel methodology for preventive maintenance policy evaluation based upon a cost-reliability model, which allows the use of flexible intervals between maintenance interventions is presented, allowing specific analysis on the weighting factors of the objective function.
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A novel TVAC-PSO based mutation strategies algorithm for generation scheduling of pumped storage hydrothermal system incorporating solar units

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an integrated heuristic approach named as time varying acceleration coefficient particle swarm optimization with mutation strategies (TVAC-PSO-MS) for the pumped storage hydrothermal (PSHT) system incorporating solar units.
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Power plant maintenance scheduling: optimizing economics and reliability

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of costs, reliability, and constraints have on each other in power plant outage scheduling were analyzed. But, the authors focused on the effects that costs and reliability had on the performance of power plant outages.
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A comprehensive assessment of the energy performance of the full range of electricity generation technologies deployed in the United Kingdom

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a comprehensive and internally consistent assessment of the energy performance of the full range of electricity production technologies in the United Kingdom, integrating the viewpoints offered by net energy analysis (NEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA).
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Deterministic and stochastic approach for safety and reliability optimization of captive power plant maintenance scheduling using GA/SA-based hybrid techniques: A comparison of results

TL;DR: The comparison of results in terms of interval of confidence for LOLP indicates that levelized risk method adequately incorporates the stochastic nature of power system as compared with levelized reserve method.
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