Abstract
Preventive Maintenance Programme consists of actions that improve the condition of system elements for performance optimization and aversion of unintended system failure or collapse. It involves inspection, servicing, repairing or replacing physical components of machineries, plant and equipment by following the prescribed schedule. It is commonly agreed nowadays that preventive maintenance programme can be very successful in improving equipment reliability while minimizing maintenance related costs. The availability of a complex system, such as steam turbine power plant is strongly associated with its parts reliability and maintenance policy. That policy not only has influence on the parts’ repair time but also on the parts’ reliability affecting the system integrity, degradation and availability. The objective of this paper is to study the effects of Preventive Maintenance Programme (PMP) implementation on the performance of the Egbin 1320 MW thermal power plant in Nigeria. This paper considers the reliability and availability of the 6 x 220 MW steam turbine units installed in the power station. The reliability and availability of the turbines are computed based on a five-year failure database. The availability analysis of available data from 2005 to 2009 shows different results for each unit and variation in availability for different year: availability of unit1 varies between 59.11 to 91.76%; unit 2, 64.02 to 94.53%; unit 3, 28.79 to 91.57%; unit 4, 80.31 to 92.76% and unit 5, 73.38 to 87.76%. Unit 6 was out of service for the past 2 to 3 years. This indicates differences in their systems installation maintenance and operation.
Highlights
Preventive maintenance scheduling of generating units is an important task in a power plant and plays major role in operation and planning of the system
The objective of this paper is to study the effects of Preventive Maintenance Programme (PMP) implementation on the performance of the Egbin 1320 MW thermal power plant in Nigeria
This paper considers the reliability and availability of the 6 × 220 MW steam turbine units installed in the power station
Summary
Preventive maintenance scheduling of generating units is an important task in a power plant and plays major role in operation and planning of the system. The economic operation of an electric utility system requires the simultaneous solution of all aspects of the operation scheduling problem in the face of system complexity, different time-scales involved, uncertainties of different order, and dimensionality of problems [1]. An effective maintenance strategy is essential in delivering safe and reliable electric power to customers economically [2]. All utilities perform maintenance of system equipment in order to supply electricity with a high reliability level. The reliability of system operation and production cost in an electric power system is highly affected by the maintenance outage of generating facilities. Maintenance scheduling for electric utilities system is a significant part of the overall operations scheduling problems
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